In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
On election night 2018, five Annenberg alumni were behind the scenes at ABC and CBS, helping to make sense of a mind-boggling quantity of precinct-level returns and exit polling.
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PennDesign has appointed Ralph Lemon, a choreographer, writer, visual artist, and curator, the Keith L. and Kathy Sachs Visiting Professor in the Department of Fine Arts for the 2018-2019 Academic Year.
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Jennifer Whittaker, a PhD student in the Department of City and Regional Planning, has been selected to participate in one of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s leadership development programs.
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Michele Margolis, assistant professor of political science, discusses the effect of politics on religious identity.
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The $1.25 million gift from the Harry T. Wilks Foundation will lead research and programming at The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology, where environmental and social scientists join with with planners, designers, policy makers, and communities to develop practical, innovative ways of improving the quality of life in the places most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
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PennDesign’s distinguished center for training and research in the technical conservation of the built environment, The Center for Architectural Conservation, led by Frank G. Matero, has a new home and a new name.
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The Advanced Certificate in Oncology Social Work is a 12-month program, which includes monthly sessions taught at the Perelman School of Medicine, that trains social workers to specifically respond to cancer patients with guidance, advocacy, and support in coping with their diagnoses.
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Annenberg School for Communication doctoral student Chioma Woko has been named to its 2018 cohort of Health Policy Research Scholars for her work as a a health communication doctoral student studying health behaviors online. She is conducting research on what factors influence people in social networks to carry out health behaviors, such as physical activity, contraceptive use, and tobacco-related behaviors.
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Postdoctoral fellow Matt Motta was honored with the Elsevier Atlas award for his article “Knowing less but presuming more: Dunning-Kruger effects and the endorsement of anti-vaccine policy attitudes,” published in August 2018 in the journal Social Science & Medicine.
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Robyn Barrow, doctoral candidate in history of art who specializes in Medieval and Byzantine art, worked with the Price Lab to create a 3-D model of a post-Byzantine boxwood cross stand.
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