In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The goal of this award is to support the research passion of the awarded women and inspire career paths in their respective fields. As a recipient, Sung will receive $150,000 in funding and three years of mentorship from Johnson & Johnson to support her research.
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Many tools available to reduce the risks and impacts of the virus are the same tools long advocated for by planning experts as a means to help protect cities from climate change, tackle systemic inequalities, and improve well-being. The Kleinman Center’s Oscar Serpell argues that these tools to be a key part of a COVID recovery plan.
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Last year, Strella Biotechnology received $100,000 of financial support, a $50,000 living stipend for both awardees, and a year of dedicated co-working and lab space at the Pennovation Center. Now, it has $3.3 million on hand as it attempts to take its technology into retail stores.
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The most efficient way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions that cause global warming is by putting a price on carbon in the form of a carbon tax. But the idea of taxing the fuels that run cars, and power homes has given Americans pause and, as a result, no carbon tax has been levied to date in the U.S.
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Headway won the 15th annual Pennvention prize, bringing over $20,000 to the team members of Integrated Product Design, graduate students Julia Lin, Jonah Arnheim, Qian Wan, and Laura Ceccacci.
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Alexa Spagnola and her teammates won the NYU Abu Dhabi Hackathon for Social Good in the Arab World with their project, Health Hero Match, which connects healthcare workers with hospitals experiencing staffing shortages.
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Oscar Serpell argues that in order to launch a coordinated response to COVID or climate change, nations need to be able to trust each another and set aside their economic and geopolitical differences.
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Hammer will offer a course on COVID-19 and the coronavirus pandemic during Penn’s Summer II session, which will be held online this year. The course, Biotechnology, Immunology, and COVID-19, will be co-taught with Miriam Wattenbarger, senior lecturer in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
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Bomyi Lim, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Biomolecular Engineering, has been selected by the U.S. Chapter of the Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers (KIChE) as the recipient of the KIChE President Young Investigator Award.
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Many observers have drawn comparisons between climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, the response to the pandemic has been so swift that it actually generated a debate about the appropriate balance between shutting down infections and restarting the economy. This debate has exposed a simple truth: a healthy economy relies on a healthy population.
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