In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Annenberg Public Policy Center Director Kathleen Hall Jamieson‘s book “Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President,” received the PROSE Award in the subject category Government, Policy and Politics, part of the Social Sciences.
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TheLeonard Davis Institute of Health Economics has awarded twelve 2019 small grants to teams led by LDI Senior and Associate Fellows engaged in health services research.
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Students in the School of Design can take the tools of design to make things better for people and, through a collaboration with Perry World House, apply these ideas to real life, to understand the approaches, the strategies in creating policy.
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Late last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that more than 70,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2017, a 9.6% increase from 2016. To combat this, policies can focus on reducing the demand for opioids—by improving access to medication-assisted treatment—or reducing the supply of opioids—by increased monitoring and regulation of opioid prescribing.
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Through a partnership with PennDesign, the Penn Museum is displaying a collection of objects made just weeks ago. The objects are the work of first-year graduate architecture students who were asked to imagine a 42,000-square-foot addition to the museum that would integrate collections storage, gallery, and event spaces.
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Alumnae Haley Russell and Laura Colagrande, the winners for the iDesign Prize, have brought cricket protein pet snack to market.
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A new collection of positions on architecture and the environment edited by Assistant Professor Sophie Hochhäusl and ETH Visiting Professor Torsten Lange has been published in Architectural Histories. The collection, titled "Field Notes," is a collaboration between members of the European Architectural History Network's Architecture and Environment group.
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As of January 1, 2019, Sara “Sally” Bachman assumed the role of Dean at SP2, succeeding four years of leadership under John L. Jackson, Jr., Richard Perry University Professor.
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A new collection at the Fisher Fine Arts Library provides a vivid and varied reminder of the “materiality of art” in our digital age.
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At the fifth annual Citizenship Challenge, an initiative of the Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Education, fourth- and fifth-grade Philadelphia-area students reflected on free speech at the National Constitution Center.
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