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  • Featured Books: Native American Heritage Month

    The Penn Libraries’ Featured Books display in the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center offers novels, memoirs, histories, and poetry collections from a number of the 574 federally recognized Native American tribes.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries

  • This checklist can make you a better leader

    Wharton’s Michael Useem talks with Brett LoGiurato from Wharton School Press about the 10th anniversary edition of his book, “The Leader’s Checklist.” 

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • Igor Bargatin’s light-powered levitation among ‘Breakthroughs of the Year’ at Falling Walls Science Summit

    The associate professor in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics is one of the ten winners in the Engineering and Technology category, presenting his research on a type of light-powered flight known as photophoretic levitation.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today

  • How social class affects the career ladder

    Wharton’s Stephanie Creary speaks about how social class and upward mobility shape careers, especially for people of color, because social class is a source of bias and discrimination across all the stages of work: development, recruitment, retention, and promotion.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • Older adults, loved ones respond similarly to Alzheimer’s risk

    Emily Largent, and member of the Penn Program on Precision Medicine for the Brain, studies the implications of test results that can inform an older adult of their risk for Alzheimer’s disease later in life.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Memory Center

  • Penn centers create guide for treating and preventing COVID-19

    The global COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by a second pandemic, an “infodemic” of misinformation about the disease and its transmission, treatment, and prevention. The Annenberg Public Policy Center has partnered with Penn’s Center for Public Health Initiatives on a guide that presents key facts and answers to important questions in a clear, straightforward way.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center

  • Post-acute care shifts away from nursing homes

    In a new study, Rachel Werner and Eric Bressman document unprecedented shifts in post-acute care during the pandemic, with significant and sustained declines in the number of hospitalized patients being discharged to skilled nursing facilities. As a result, SNFs took a significant financial hit, as total payments to SNFs decreased to less than half of their prepandemic levels.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute

  • Tackling the climate crisis: Can business lead the way?

    The Oct. 20 virtual panel, titled “Tackling the Climate Crisis,” addressed how businesses can play a role in developing new government policies, energy-efficient technology, or reducing emissions through nature-based solutions.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • The Interdisciplinary Initiative in the History of the Built Environment looks beyond conventional power brokers

    The new initiative, introduced by the Department of City and Regional Planning at the Weitzman School, will incorporate a deeper understanding of history and how it influences the material world, and the social, political, and cultural context around city planning, preservation, and design.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design

  • Monitoring the effects of the pandemic on metros and cities here and there

    As part of its Cities and Contagion Initiative, launched in April 2020, Penn IUR has covered and is continuing to cover public transportation, housing, commercial real estate, and specific industrial sectors in the nation’s urban economies, and has issued three briefs one year out.

    FULL STORY AT Penn IUR