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  • What causes traffic—and how it separates rich and poor countries

    Urban travel speed is strongly related to a country’s GDP, which explains why it is crucial to invest more in roads and increase uncongested mobility, according to a new paper co-authored by Wharton’s Gilles Duranton.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • César de la Fuente named ELHM Scholar by National Academy of Medicine

    The Presidential Assistant Professor in Bioengineering, Psychiatry, Microbiology, and in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been selected as a 2023 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholar by the National Academy of Medicine, for his work combining human and machine intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery and developing useful tools and lifesaving medicines.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today

  • Hillman grant for Penn Nursing professor to study virtual reality and loneliness

    Penn Nursing, Annenberg Virtual Reality ColLABorative, and New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing have been awarded 2023 grant from the Hillman Emergent Innovation: Serious Illness and End of Life program to study the use of social virtual reality in enhancing the treatment experience and reducing loneliness in people undergoing hemodialysis.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • An architectural pioneer receives her due

    At the Weitzman Commencement Ceremony in May 2024, the School will award Lin Huiyin, arguably the first and most famous female architect in modern China, with a long overdue posthumous Bachelor of Architecture degree.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design

  • Two from Weitzman recognized as 2023 Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania

    Rashida Ng, Presidential Associate Professor of Architecture and chair of the undergraduate architecture program at Penn, and Marsha Perelman, a 1974 graduate of the Master of City Planning program and chair of Calder Philadelphia, have been recognized as 2023 Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design

  • Long-term care insurance changes employment among adult children with aging parents

    A new study by LDI senior fellow Norma B. Coe and colleagues finds that long-term care insurance coverage could increase the economic opportunities for adult children of aging parents by increasing the likelihood that they work full-time.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute

  • Business intimidation in the rulemaking process

    In a new study, Cary Coglianese and co-author demonstrate the power of businesses to exert substantial influence over agency rulemaking.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law

  • Weitzman welcomes new fellows in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Planning

    The Weitzman School welcomes Emma Mendel as the 2023-2024 McHarg Fellow in the Department of Landscape Architecture, and Stanley Jamal Collins as a provost’s postdoctoral fellow in the Department of City and Regional Planning. Xiang Zhang and Maximilian Ororbia have joined the Department of Architecture as postdoctoral fellows.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design

  • Penn and CHOP researchers receive $50M in NIH grant to study impact on environmental factors on pregnancy and children’s health

    The Penn-CHOP ECHO program will enroll patients at Penn Medicine during pregnancy and follow the infants into childhood at CHOP.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Diversity in the Stacks: Black cinema, Middle Eastern and North African film, and media-critical documentary

    The Penn Libraries has been expanding its selections of streaming films by working with distributors of international cinema like ArtMattan, Typecast Films, and the Media Education Foundation.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries