In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Barracks is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Media at Risk and lecturer in the Annenberg School’s undergraduate program. The Black & Bold Awards, presented by the Virginia-based nonprofit Diversity Richmond, celebrate leadership in the Black LGBTQ+ community.
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Wharton real estate professor Joseph Gyourko says it’s too early to predict exactly how the demand for office space will decline because commercial leases generally last five to seven years. But it’s clear that when those leases finally expire, the market will not be the same.
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The award recognizes Hynd’s deep research in partial differential equations and will support a yearlong research visit to the Mittag-Lefler Institute where he will investigate the Blaschke-Lebesgue problem.
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The Martin and Pamela Winter Infectious Disease Fellowships will support Khabadire Tlotleng and Matthew Martinez, two early-career biomedical graduate students who are conducting research related to the biology of infectious disease.
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Penn Engineering has awarded polymedia artist Eto Otitigbe a commission to create Cascode, a landmark public art installation that will encompass a mix of organic forms, natural materials and data-informed design to represent the intersection of environment, health, community and data, and its collective impact on West Philadelphia residents.
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After winning an African Wildlife Safari in a charity auction in 2015, Heather Smith, chief operating officer of the department of Neurosurgery in the Perelman School of Medicine, returned home wanting to help vulnerable species and their caregivers across the globe. Smith and other Penn Medicine colleagues raised $10,000 for Rhinos Without Borders, a project with the goal to transport rhinos from South Africa to Botswana where they would be in less danger of being poached for their horns. With that, the Pennsylvania Rhino Conservation Advocates (PARCA) was born.
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A recent research paper co-authored by Wharton accounting professor Christina Zhu, titled “Financial Reporting and Consumer Behavior,” notes that the footfall increase is more pronounced for firms with “extreme negative or positive earnings surprises that are more likely to garner coverage from the financial press.”
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The Eduardo D. Glandt Presidential Professor and Chair in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been awarded a 2021 Intel Outstanding Researcher Award for his project titled “Patterning at Nano‐Length Scales by Directed Assembly.”
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Penn GSE, the School District of Philadelphia, and Temple University are launching a new leadership program designed to prepare School District of Philadelphia employees to become school principals and education leaders. The Pathway to Leadership Principal Preparation Program will begin with the first cohort of students in summer 2022.
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The multimillion-dollar contract with Wellcome Leap will help create “on-demand” manufacturing technology that can produce a range of RNA-based vaccines. The two-pronged project will use a design method that creates a barcode library of novel lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) with custom features, while the other will develop microfluidic chips for the precise manufacturing of these RNA-based therapies.
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