News from

News Archive

Every story published by Penn Today—all in one place.
Reset All Filters
7414 Results
Addressing declining fertility
Artist rendering of fertility decline. Depopulation, demographic crisis. Baby bottles in the form of graph and down arrow.

In a recent paper, PIK Professor Michael Platt and the Perelman School of Medicine’s Peter Sterling posit that the underlying mechanism of the looming concern of human fertility declines is the epidemic of despair.

(Image: iStock / TanyaJoy)

  • Q&A

    • Addressing declining fertility

    In a Q&A with Penn Today, Michael Platt talks about the socioeconomic and emotional factors leading to plummeting fertility rates.
    Educate to Empower aims to break down barriers to breast cancer screenings
    Penn fourth-years Simran Rajpal on the left and Gauthami Moorkanatst on the right pose outside Fisher-Bennett Hall on Penn campus.

    “In Philadelphia, in particular West Philly, there’s a lot of communities that don’t have the access to health care that they need, even though Penn is right here,” says Moorkanat (right). “Our thinking behind this was that if we can deliver the resources to them, instead of making them come to Penn, maybe we can start to bridge that gap.”

    nocred

    Educate to Empower aims to break down barriers to breast cancer screenings

    With the President’s Engagement Prize, fourth-years Simran Rajpal and Gauthami Moorkanat plan to deliver education and resources directly to community centers in Philadelphia, tackling medical mistrust, health literacy, and more.

    Kristen de Groot

    Uplifting Filipino communities abroad and at home
    Vernon Wells.

    Vernon Wells, a fourth-year anthropology and sociology student, will build off senior thesis research on the Ayta Magbukún tribe with a Fulbright U.S. Student Award in the Philippines.

    nocred

    Uplifting Filipino communities abroad and at home

    Fourth-year student Vernon Wells has been working with Indigenous peoples in the Philippines, research they will expand on through a Fulbright award, while strengthening the Southeast Asian community at Penn.
    Teaching climate change communication, from the classroom to a conference of journalists
    Michael Mann at a podium and Kathleen Hall Jameson beside him teaching a course at Penn.

    The class included writing a letter to the editor, op-ed, and fact-check. “We threw a lot at them, we’re asking a lot of them, but I feel like they’re rising to the occasion,” Mann said.

    nocred

    Teaching climate change communication, from the classroom to a conference of journalists

    Michael Mann and Kathleen Hall Jamieson are co-teaching the Climate Change and Communication course this spring, tied to the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference, held this year at Penn.
    Gratz College gifts Gratz-Mandell Jewish music collection to the Penn Libraries
    Old sheet music from the Gatz collection.

    Loose music papers of liturgical music, the top composition is a Keddusha by Cantor Moses Zivy from Müllheim, Germany.

    (Image: Courtesy of Penn Libraries)

    Gratz College gifts Gratz-Mandell Jewish music collection to the Penn Libraries

    The collaboration to catalog and digitize materials will ensure lasting access to the collection of Jewish Music History.

    From Penn Libraries

    Collaborating to advance health communication
    Mary Andrews (center)(L to R): Andy Tan, David Lydon-Staley, Emily Falk, and John B. Jemmott III.

    Mary Andrews (center) successfully defended her dissertation in December. Her dissertation committee members included four health communication faculty (L to R): Andy Tan, David Lydon-Staley, Emily Falk, and John B. Jemmott III.

    (Image: Courtesy of Annenberg School for Communication)

    Collaborating to advance health communication

    As a generation of pioneering scholars retired, several new hires are working together to continue Annenberg’s legacy as a leader in Health Communication.

    Hailey Reissman