In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
According to January survey data from the Annenberg Public Policy Center, confidence that the CDC is providing the public with trustworthy information about the means of preventing and treating Covid-19 fell from 77% only two months ago, in November 2021, to 72% in January 2022.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
In choosing the Seventh Annual Best Books for Young Readers list, curators Rabani Garg and Sibylla Shekerdjiska-Benatova focus on authors and illustrators whose brought stories cover the histories and experiences of the many different communities to the fore in real, empathetic ways.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
Experts at Wharton have created a model that improves upon conventional approaches to understand how investors perceive the impact of climate risk on local economies. One important aspect of climate risk is sea level rise, and how it affects coastal communities. In their paper titled “Sea Level Rise Exposure and Municipal Bond Yields,” the experts use municipal bond prices as a proxy to estimate the impact of sea level rise risks.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
The Penn Libraries’ Kurdish collecting efforts build upon previous work from Middle East bibliographers as the Libraries seeks to ensure greater representation for the peoples and languages of Kurdistan.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
The chief executive officer at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Nursing assistant dean for clinical practice is awarded for her extensive scope of influence on practice and health policy that is evident by her national and local executive leadership.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Penn Engineers have developed a new technology which simultaneously provides information in four dimensions of T cell profiling. This technology, called TetTCR-SeqHD, is the first to provide detailed information about single T cells in a high-throughput manner, opening doors for personalized immune diagnostics and immunotherapy development.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
The Adani President’s Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Computer and Information Science, has been named a 2021 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Lord Nicholas Stern, professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, author, and former chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank is this year’s recipient of the Carnot Prize, awarded by Penn’s Kleinman Center for Energy Policy.
FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →
An automated text messaging system informed by psychotherapeutic techniques achieved meaningful improvement in not just mental, but the physical health of patients with delayed surgeries.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Each year, Penn IUR publishes a special issue of Urban Link to ask urban experts to reflect on a question of importance to cities. The question for 2022 is “How do you think urban infrastructure should be reimagined for the 21st century to build sustainable and equitable cities?”
FULL STORY AT Penn IUR →
