In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The survey is designed to explore the economic and social challenges that Philadelphians face and to identify ways in which Philadelphians are economically mobile. The PEEP initiative is part of the Center for Public Service & Policy led by former Mayor of Philadelphia Michael A. Nutter at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice.
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Llamas-Rodriguez will help develop one of the center’s core research themes, “Mobile Borders: Media, Migration & Diasporas.”
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The associate professor of historic preservation and landscape architecture has been awarded for his significant contribution to the preservation of Philadelphia’s built environment.
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A new writing and research residency at CARGC brought global media scholars from around the East Coast to West Philadelphia.
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During the 2023-24 academic year, the former head of Trust and Safety at Twitter will return to Annenberg as a visiting scholar with the Center for Media at Risk.
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FactCheck.org’s science fact-checking project, SciCheck, examines the trail of false and misleading claims on topics such as vaccines, autism, and COVID-19 made by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine advocate who is running for the Democratic nomination for president.
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This year’s visiting scholars join the Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication, Annenberg Public Policy Center, Center for Media at Risk, Center on Digital Culture and Society, and SAFELab, with postdoctoral fellows joining additional centers and labs.
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David S. Roos, Penn’s E. Otis Kendall Professor of Biology, will receive the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2024 Alice and C. C. Wang Award in Molecular Parasitology, in recognition of his work making seminal contributions to the field of molecular parasitology.
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Penn’s The School of Arts & Sciences has received a grant from the Panda CommUnity Fund to support the creation of the Panda Express Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Studies (ASAM) for recent Ph.D.s to pursue their own scholarship, offer new courses, support undergraduate and graduate research, collaborate with faculty, and help organize programming.
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Students in classes taught by Heather Sharkey, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations professor, fill in gaps in the online encyclopedia, learning about their subjects and the nuts and bolts of research, writing, and copyright.
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