In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
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.
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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.
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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.
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The Pew Charitable Trusts has named Maayan Levy a 2022 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, and Alexander Huang and Chengcheng Jin as 2022 Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research. John James Tello Cajiao has been named a 2022 Pew Latin American Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences.
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The award comes in honor of the Wilbur Schramm Professor Emeritus of Communication and Health Policy at the Annenberg School for Communication impact on the field of health communication and of evaluating messaging campaigns’ ability to drive behavior change.
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The associate professor of city and regional planning and faculty director of the Housing Initiative at Penn has been named senior policy advisor for housing and urban policy in the White House Domestic Policy Council.
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A group of Penn Dental Medicine students joined Dental School dean Mark Wolff in presenting at the recent conference of the American Academy of Developmental Medicine & Dentistry, discussing the services provided through the School’s Care Center for Persons with Disabilities Personalized Care Suite and the educational experiences gained there in caring for this vulnerable population.
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Zlotnick, a graduate student and member of the McKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory, joins 28 early-career scientists from around the world in this year’s cohort, with each receiving support for one to two years as they pivot to the next stages of their research agendas.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Successful negotiators are frequently seen as uncompromising winners, but driving a hard bargain can create more harm than good. In his latest paper, Wharton’s Maurice Schweitzer explains why negotiators need to think about the long-term relationship with their counterparts.
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The similarities in symptoms between seasonal allergies and the now-dominant omicron subvariant of COVID-19 can be confusing. Producing mucus, sneezing, and coughing are all part of how the immune system keeps threats from entering the body. Allergies often involve itching and sneezing, but fever is rarely a symptom of allergies, which might be a way to differentiate between COVID and seasonal allergies.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
