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  • 2022 Klein Family Social Justice grant recipients

    Penn Arts & Sciences has awarded three Klein Family Social Justice grants to these faculty-led projects: Personalized, Accelerated Science Learning, led by Lori Flanagan-Cato, an associate professor of psychology; Free State Slavery and Bound Labor: Pennsylvania, led by Sarah Barringer Gordon, a professor of history and the Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law, and Kathleen Brown, the David Boies Professor of History; and Kitchen Science: A Platform for Inclusive and Accessible Outreach, led by Arnold Mathijssen, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy.

    FULL STORY AT Almanac →

  • Inflation and interest rates: What’s ahead?

    U.S. inflation reached a new 40-year high in June. But if the current economic slowdown gathers pace, the Federal Reserve will likely be less aggressive with the next interest rate increase, according to Wharton experts.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • The importance of postpartum and interconception care for mothers and babies

    APenn Medicine study shows that preventive visits after a complicated pregnancy were associated with a lower risk of complications in subsequent pregnancies, providing evidence on the importance of continuous access to care and extended postpartum Medicaid coverage after pregnancies.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Penn Nursing appoints inaugural executive director of the Leonard A. Lauder Community Care Nurse Practitioner Program

    Kimberly Strauch will direct the first-of-its-kind, tuition-free program dedicated to building a nurse practitioner workforce committed to working in and with underserved communities, both rural and urban.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Health care management: What’s wrong and how to fix it

    A new book provides guidance from Penn experts in health care economics and policy research, authored by LDI Fellows. In the book, “Seemed Like a Good Idea: Alchemy versus Evidence-Based Approaches to Health Care Management Innovation”, 11 experts from the Wharton School, Perelman School of Medicine, School of Nursing, and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia survey the state of evidence for management practices, and find that in opposition to clinical care delivery, the management of care relies on little rigorous evidence.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Deep Jariwala awarded Young Scientist Prize in Semiconductors from IUPAP

    The assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering has been awarded the 2022 Young Scientist Prize in Semiconductors from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • Ioana Marinescu to join Department of Justice as principal economist

    In addition to serving as an associate professor at SP2, Marinescu is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She will take a one-year leave from SP2 to join the antitrust division of the Department of Justice.

    FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →

  • The Institute for Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases will fund a new postdoctoral fellowship

    Long Kwan Metthew Lam has been awarded a two-year inaugural postdoctoral fellowship through the newly established Institute for Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Vet →

  • Action, not words: Creating gender and racial equity at work

    Wharton’s Stephanie Creary talks to Tina Opie and Beth Livingston, two management professors who have written a new book on how to tear down the barriers that prevent women and marginalized groups from thriving in business.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Douglas Robb named inaugural McHarg Fellow

    Awarded by The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at Penn, the McHarg Fellowship provides $75,000 to support an emerging voice in landscape architecture and its related fields. Robb’s work lies at intersection of Indigenous sovereignty, climate change, and the energy transition in rural North America.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →