In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Penn Engineers used a counterintuitive algorithmic strategy called “metadynamics” to find rare low-energy canyons in glassy materials. Their breakthrough suggests the algorithm may have a wide range of useful scientific applications, potentially speeding up the pace of computational protein folding and eliminating the need for large data sets in machine learning.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
In “Groundwork: A History of the Renaissance Picture” Kim asks viewers to start from the ground and consider it central and the figure second.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
But are the payments going to the right hospitals—that is, those focused on serving low-income patients? To find out if federal funds go to hospitals that serve low-income patients, LDI senior fellow Paula Chatterjee, and other researchers conducted an in-depth analysis of the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital program. Federal statute outlines criteria for identifying hospitals that must receive payments, but little is known about how states allocate payments outside of those criteria—or what impact they have on access to care for low-income Americans.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Penn Medicine led the largest global effort to identify and predict glioblastoma tumor boundaries without compromising patient privacy.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Danielle Cavalcanto, associate director of Interiors with the Perelman School of Medicine, was recognized for instilling sustainable factors in her interior designs, frequently matching inventory in storage to newly configured workspaces.
FULL STORY AT Penn Sustainability →
Azucena (Susy) Villalobos, a nurse in the surgical intensive care unit and master’s student at Penn Nursing, was inspired to join NAHN’s local chapter “by the wide breadth of work that these Latinx nurses were doing for their communities.”
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Grocery delivery workers were hailed as heroes during the pandemic, but not every gig worker considered themselves worthy. New research from Wharton’s Lindsey Cameron explores the business consequences of becoming an overnight hero.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
A research team that included LDI senior fellows Rachel Kelz, Elinore Kaufman, Mark Neuman, and Matthew McHugh have investigated whether Black patients and white patients receive surgical consultations at the same rate.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
The associate professor of English has received the 2022 Excellence in Journalism Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association for his blog, “Psyche on Campus.”
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
A recent LDI study examines the 2016 Survey of Prison Inmates administered by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and finds that disabled people are vastly overrepresented in prisons and were more likely than nondisabled people to have previously resided in punitive and therapeutic institutions.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
