In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Affirmative action programs are often meant to lower barriers for the most disadvantaged people. But the amount of benefit depends on how they are designed, according to research from Wharton’s Alex Rees-Jones.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
The Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science and Director of Penn’s Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media, has been named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, has been awarded a People’s Voice Award at the Webbys 11 times. The People’s Voice Awards are voted on by the public. FactCheck.org has won 21 Webbys in all.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
Children in two of Penn Dental Medicine’s community care programs have been getting a new book along with their dental exams through new partnership with A Book a Day, a nonprofit based in West Philadelphia, and distributed through the School’s PennSmiles mobile clinic.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Journal →
The Joseph Bordogna Professor in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is the 2023 recipient of the Langmuir Lectureship Award, presented by the American Chemical Society Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry and its journal, Langmuir, for her research in the field of colloid and surface chemistry.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Perry World House announced the thirty-four students selected for its next cohort of World House Student Fellows. The group represents each of Penn’s four undergraduate schools and a wide array of academic backgrounds and global policy interests.
FULL STORY AT Perry World House →
The Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at Penn Carey Law School has released the final set of recommendations from a Sentinel Event Review of incidents during protests following the murder of George Floyd.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
The abrupt closure of Indian publishing house Westland Books in February 2022 stunned readers and authors alike, significantly disrupting the book industry in South Asia. Following the news of the closure, the Libraries worked with two Delhi-based vendors to purchase more than 400 volumes published by Westland in recent years.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
Penn Carey Law professor Cary Coglianese and Amanda Shanor, assistant professor at The Wharton School, offer insight into the recent settlement in the Fox News defamation case, in which Fox News has agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle a defamation suit brought by Dominion Voting Systems.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
The Penn faculty member and alumna will be the sixth woman and first president of African American descent of the world’s largest dermatologic association.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
