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  • Why people with dementia prefer aging in place, despite all the missing supports 

    Penn LDI research fellows find that many patients and care partners don’t plan for future needs until they are forced to do so.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute

  • Penn researchers to investigate causes of cognitive decline in Lewy body diseases with $18M grant

    Research funded by the National Institutes of Health and Aging will identify targets for treatments that slow the progression of diseases like Parkinson’s and dementia with Lewy bodies.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Directory from SP2’s Field Center aims to help foster youth pursue higher education

    The 2024 Campus Programming Directory produced by The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research raises the visibility of information that can help students with experience in foster care in Pennsylvania find higher education access and success.

    FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice

  • Is AI making you spend more money?

    Wharton’s Wendy De La Rosa sounds the alarm about firms using AI to encourage consumer spending, which will harm financial well-being.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • How low trust in government may hurt clinical trial participation

    In a new study, LDI Fellows explore how trust in federal oversight of vaccine safety influenced people’s willingness to participate in COVID-19 clinical trials.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute

  • Penn Dental Medicine and Yeditepe University faculty of dentistry sign MOU to advance global dental education

    The partnership between Penn Dental and Yeditepe University in Istanbul will strengthen the academic and clinical expertise of both institutions through faculty exchange programs, joint research initiatives, and a shared commitment to innovative dental practices.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine

  • Zhongjie Lin named Benjamin Z. Lin Presidential Professor at the Weitzman School

    Lin directs the Urban Design concentration in the Department of City & Regional Planning, and leads the Future Cities Initiative, a research lab focused on sustainable urbanism, urban mobility, city form, public space, and nature-based infrastructure.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design

  • Youth Participatory Action Communication Research: A model for developing youth-driven health campaigns

    Annenberg researchers worked with West Philadelphia high schoolers to develop a health communication campaign encouraging their peers to seek mental health support.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication

  • ‘Democracy Amid Crises’ AIOD panel dataset now available to scholars

    The data consists of eight waves of panel data tracking the opinions of residents of four key battleground states—Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—during the 2020 election and its aftermath

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center

  • From Ulysses to romantasy, this site encourages you to explore banned books

    Digital library strategist and metadata architectJohn Mark Ockerbloom has created a unique browsable database that examines book censorship past and present.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries