In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Penn GSE’s Karen Weaver, an expert on college sports as they intersect with higher education management, media, and policy, as well as a former Division I and Division III head coach and athletics administrator, discusses the upcoming changes to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) structure and governance.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
Researchers from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Perelman School of Medicine have now shown how to computationally optimize the design of lipid nanoparticles to accurately target cell delivery.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
The new center—the Penn Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratory for Healthy Aging (PennAITech)—is led by LDI senior fellows George Demiris and Jason Karlawish, and by Jason Moore, Chair of Computational Biomedicine at Cedar Sinai. It is focused on developing innovative technologies to improve care and living supports for older adults.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
As of January 1, Penn students, faculty, and staff whose research articles are accepted for publication in academic journals published by Cambridge University Press have the option to make their article open access at no additional cost to them.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
The first step for patients wanting to go tobacco free is to view the chance as a process with a series of steps rather than a switch they can flip on or off. For results that stick, Frank T. Leone, director of Penn Medicine’s Comprehensive Smoking Treatment Program, recommends targeting the underlying compulsion to inhale nicotine.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Federal Reserve must get “more aggressive” in 2022 by increasing interest rates and tapering down asset purchases in order to tame inflation, according to Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
The assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, whose research lies at the intersection of solid-state opto-electronics and emerging low-dimensional materials, is being honored “for breakthrough advances in optical characterization and understanding of light-matter coupling in excitonic and strongly-correlated semiconductors.”
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
In the fall of 2021, students in landscape architecture and city and regional planning studios at the Weitzman School grappled with the varied challenges of planning for climate change. Their work took place at multiple spatial scales, across decades, and in diverse communities, from the U.S. Virgin Islands to the nation’s capital.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
The next stage of the NIH-funded THINKER clinical trial will address long-term outcomes and risks of transplanting kidneys from hepatitis C-infected donors into patients.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
A pioneer in the field of orphan diseases and gene therapy, James M. Wilson reflects on 10 years of leading Penn’s Orphan Disease Center.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
