In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
This year, the Penn Libraries launched the Penn Sexuality Collection, a new effort that builds upon our already existing collections in more traditional aspects of sexuality studies. The Penn Libraries is already home to the Banned Books Collections, which is made up of pulp fiction of a sexual nature that was popular for about 40 years after World War II.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
This year’s insights from Undergraduate Climate and Energy Policy Seminar fellows tackled topics from energy security and the crisis in Ukraine to the grid issues in Puerto Rico.
FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →
Penn Medicine CAREs grant program is supporting 36 community programs this quarter, including efforts to support diversity in medicine.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
In a recent study, Shoshana Aronowitz and colleagues conducted interviews with prescribers, pharmacists, and patients to determine how telehealth was being used to prescribe buprenorphine. They found that patients and prescribers welcomed the use of telehealth, but pharmacists often “red flagged” these prescriptions resulting in pharmacy-level “red tape” that delayed or prevented the prescriptions from being filled.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
The President’s Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and Professor of Chemistry, has won the 2022 Centenary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry for pioneering and creative applications of computational chemistry to the field of atmospheric chemistry, and for excellence in communication.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
Shields Anderson joined Penn in 2012 as executive director of operations and chief of staff, and has been appointed vice president of Public Safety effective June 1.
FULL STORY AT Almanac →
Penn and collaborators will design carbon-negative, medium-sized building structures by developing a high-performance structural system for carbon absorption and storage over buildings’ lifespan.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
EMLab is a newly launched research unit within The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at the Weitzman School, is part of a team that has received a grant through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineering With Nature program. Researchers from the Department of Landscape Architecture will help collect data and monitor landscape changes related to the Army Corps’ dredging and sediment placement work at sites in the Maurice River in New Jersey.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
The new program, Executive Program in Design Leadership, is a six-month certificate for designers looking to advance their leadership skills in an online program, taught by leading design educators, practitioners, and experts in leadership development, with courses focused on relationship-building, inclusivity, and transformational leadership.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
In Episode 5, Anita Allen, expert on the philosophical dimensions of privacy and data protection law, reveals how race-neutral privacy laws in the U.S. have failed to address the unequal burdens faced online by Black Americans, whose personal data are used in racially discriminatory ways.
FULL STORY AT Penn Program on Regulation →
