In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Martin and Pamela Winter Infectious Disease Fellowships will support Khabadire Tlotleng and Matthew Martinez, two early-career biomedical graduate students who are conducting research related to the biology of infectious disease.
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After winning an African Wildlife Safari in a charity auction in 2015, Heather Smith, chief operating officer of the department of Neurosurgery in the Perelman School of Medicine, returned home wanting to help vulnerable species and their caregivers across the globe. Smith and other Penn Medicine colleagues raised $10,000 for Rhinos Without Borders, a project with the goal to transport rhinos from South Africa to Botswana where they would be in less danger of being poached for their horns. With that, the Pennsylvania Rhino Conservation Advocates (PARCA) was born.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
A recent research paper co-authored by Wharton accounting professor Christina Zhu, titled “Financial Reporting and Consumer Behavior,” notes that the footfall increase is more pronounced for firms with “extreme negative or positive earnings surprises that are more likely to garner coverage from the financial press.”
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The Eduardo D. Glandt Presidential Professor and Chair in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been awarded a 2021 Intel Outstanding Researcher Award for his project titled “Patterning at Nano‐Length Scales by Directed Assembly.”
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Penn GSE, the School District of Philadelphia, and Temple University are launching a new leadership program designed to prepare School District of Philadelphia employees to become school principals and education leaders. The Pathway to Leadership Principal Preparation Program will begin with the first cohort of students in summer 2022.
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The multimillion-dollar contract with Wellcome Leap will help create “on-demand” manufacturing technology that can produce a range of RNA-based vaccines. The two-pronged project will use a design method that creates a barcode library of novel lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) with custom features, while the other will develop microfluidic chips for the precise manufacturing of these RNA-based therapies.
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The two fellows, Alison Buttenheim and Kevin Volpp, have been named to a new NASEM committee that will assess future prospects for the broader use of behavioral economics in public policy.
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The Penn IUR Faculty Fellow and assistant professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the Weitzman School of Design was awarded the grant for a project to improve the nation’s water infrastructure system and adapt to climate change, with $500,000 in funding over five years.
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With their orientation toward meeting local workforce needs and the pandemic-related threats to educational opportunity and access, now is the time to ensure that community colleges have the resources required to offer needed programs and support the diverse students they strive to serve. A Penn IUR event this winter, entitled “Federal Support for Workforce Solutions” described how community colleges provide the training and education required for jobs that require some postsecondary education but not a bachelor’s degree, good jobs that provide opportunity for economic well-being.
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When does government debt get too big to be paid back and warrant tax increases, and under what conditions do stimulus programs work best? So far, monetary and fiscal policies have succeeded in helping economic recovery with higher consumption, investment and output, and governments will be able to service their debt, according to a recent research paper titled “Can Monetary Policy Create Fiscal Capacity?,” co-authored by finance professor Tim Landvoigt at Wharton.
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