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At the intersection of art and design, masks that impart truth
Krzysztof Wodiczko.

“My colleagues and I were trained to infiltrate the authoritarian system and try to make it more human by working critically and analytically,” says Krzysztof Wodiczko, a distinguished visiting professor of fine arts at Weitzman who grew up in Poland.

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At the intersection of art and design, masks that impart truth

The Weitzman School’s Krzysztof Wodiczko, a distinguished visiting professor of fine arts at the Weitzman School, explores identity, culture, technology, and design in his classes.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Why climate change might be affecting your headaches
Senior citizen in nature holding their head with a headache.

Image: iStock/interstid

Why climate change might be affecting your headaches

Rising global average temperature and extreme weather events are likely to become more frequent or more intense. Experts suggest that the stress of these events can trigger headaches.

Kelsey Geesler

Infrastructure planning on a megaregional scale
Zoe Kerrich and students in a gallery.

Students including Zoe Kerrich (far left) presented their proposals to community members and other guest critics at the final review.

(Image: Eric Sucar)

Infrastructure planning on a megaregional scale

A Weitzman School research studio focusing on megaregions brings an interdisciplinary practice to both academia and infrastructure planning.

From the Weitzman School of Design

The path from innovation to implementation
Tray of vials in a medical lab.

Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine Magazine

The path from innovation to implementation

Penn’s infrastructure in both supporting clinical research and forging commercial partnerships smooths the way from idea to approval.

Karen L. Brooks for Penn Medicine Magazine

Two Penn faculty elected to the American Philosophical Society
Paul Offit and Dorothy Roberts.

Paul Offit, the Maurice R. Hilleman Chair of Vaccinology in the Department of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine, and director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; and Dorothy E. Roberts, the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights.

(Images: (Left) Courtesy of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and (right) Sameer A. Khan)

Two Penn faculty elected to the American Philosophical Society

Paul Offit and Dorothy Roberts have been recognized for extraordinary accomplishments in their fields.
Promoting exercise for healthy brain aging in the Latino community
Four older Latinx people with Ruby Rivera and Adriana Perez at a community health center.

Participants of Tiempo Juntos with community health promoter, Ruby Rivera and Adriana Perez.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Memory Center)

Promoting exercise for healthy brain aging in the Latino community

Penn Nursing’s Adriana Perez engages the Latino community in fitness classes through Tiempo Juntos Por Nuestra Salud.

From Penn Memory Center

Penn Medicine to open new crisis response center at Cedar Avenue facility
Outside entrance of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania–Cedar Avenue building.

Image: Peggy Peterson

Penn Medicine to open new crisis response center at Cedar Avenue facility

As part of a unified mental health care hub at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania–Cedar Avenue, the new model brings together emergency, inpatient, and outpatient psychiatric care on the same campus, creating the health system’s second consolidated mental health care site in Philadelphia.

Eric Horvath