In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
About 40 time-limited pilot studies are operating now, mostly in cities—Philadelphia alone is home to six. Strong evidence continues to mount that reducing poverty has a substantial impact on beneficiaries’ state of well-being and even life expectancy. But the public remains skeptical and policymakers have been leery to launch big efforts.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy has announced this year’s recipient of its 2023 Carnot Prize: Ramón Méndez Galain, physicist, renewable energy visionary, and Uruguay’s former secretary of energy.
FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →
The assistant professor of family medicine and community health in the Perelman School of Medicine will lead Penn Medicine’s Program for LGBTQ+ Health to address increase access to care, along with quality of care and patient experience, for LGBTQ+ individuals across the health system.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
During the 2023-24 academic year, the former head of Trust and Safety at Twitter will return to Annenberg as a visiting scholar with the Center for Media at Risk.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →
The Penn Research in Embedded Computing and Integrated Systems Engineering Center was founded 15 years ago. Some of the notable systems developed are CHARON for hybrid system modeling and verification VitalCore for monitoring the Internet of Medical Things, F1TENTH for autonomous racing and Verisig for safety verification of neural network controllers. Its two new faculty members are Benjamin C. Lee and Mingmin Zhao.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
FactCheck.org’s science fact-checking project, SciCheck, examines the trail of false and misleading claims on topics such as vaccines, autism, and COVID-19 made by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine advocate who is running for the Democratic nomination for president.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
The seven-year grant funds the creation of an implementation science hub as part of the NIH’s new Maternal Health Research of Centers of Excellence initiative to promote maternal health equity.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
This year’s visiting scholars join the Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication, Annenberg Public Policy Center, Center for Media at Risk, Center on Digital Culture and Society, and SAFELab, with postdoctoral fellows joining additional centers and labs.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →
A new study by Seth A. Berkowitz, Guarav Dave, and LDI senior fellow Atheendar Venkataramani explored how the phase-in model of the earned income tax creditcreates a gap in income support for those with limited ability to work, which could create a “poverty-health trap,” where poor health worsens the ability to earn income.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Researchers in the Center for Fetal Research at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn Engineering have identified an ionizable lipid nanoparticle that can deliver mRNA base editing tools to the brain.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
