In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Amanda Shanor, an assistant professor at the Wharton School, writes that the Supreme Court affirms social media companies’ business models, dodging for now the issue of liability for harmful speech.
FULL STORY AT The Regulatory Review →
Contrary to popular belief, behaviors don’t become habits after a “magic number” of days. Wharton’s Katy Milkman shares what machine learning is teaching scientists about habit formation.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
The associate professor of anthropology, became the first associate faculty director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India on July 1.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
At this year’s 2023 Philadelphia LGBTQ+ Pride march, staff from across the University of Pennsylvania Health System, along with their friends, families, and neighbors—nearly 30 people in all—participated to celebrate the Philadelphia LGBTQ+ community and reaffirm Penn Medicine’s commitment to health equity, representation, and support for queer individuals who are employed by or receive care across the Health System.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The professor in the Department of Preventive & Restorative Sciences, has been awarded the 2023 IADR DMG Peyton-Skinner Award for his outstanding contributions to innovation in dental materials.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
Last October, Penn President Liz Magill charged the Red and Blue Advisory Committee of faculty, staff, and student leaders to hear from all corners of our Penn community; to be forward-looking and bold; and to consider where we, together, might take Penn. The Committee members, led by Provost John L. Jackson, Jr., collated and condensed all they heard from our Penn community and recently reported their findings to the President.
FULL STORY AT Tomorrow, Together →
Researchers at the School of Engineering and Applied Science are partnering with investigators at Oregon State University, as well as Semio, a Los Angeles-based software company that specializes in robotics applications, on a $5 million National Science Foundation effort to accelerate human-robotic-interface research by designing a standardized humanoid robot to distribute to the scientific community.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Wharton professor Ingrid Nembhard examines why minority employees can be afraid of speaking up at work.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Mark S. Wolff, Penn Dental Medicine’s Morton Amsterdam Dean, was honored by the City of Philadelphia for his service to individuals with disabilities as a 2023 recipient of the “My City, My Place” Brighter Futures Awards
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
The international convening of the highest decision-making body on sustainable urbanization and human settlements in the world, convened from June 5-9 in Nairobi, Kenya. Eugenie L. Birch, Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education at Weitzman and co-director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research gave input on 10 resolutions that were ultimately approved by the UNHA.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
