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Four Quakers score Big 5 accolades
From left, Mia Lakstigala, Kayla Padilla, Jordan Obi, and Jordan Dingle make moves with the ball during games.

Four Quakers score Big 5 accolades

Mia Lakstigala, Kayla Padilla, and Jordan Obi of the women’s basketball team and Jordan Dingle of the men’s basketball team picked up Big 5 postseason awards.

Solutions to mitigate climate change, from the IPCC
Side of a building. Some of the window spaces are covered with bars. Others are covered with plants and other options for greening the building.

Solutions to mitigate climate change, from the IPCC

The latest assessment offers both a harsh reality check and a path forward. Experts William Braham, Peter Psarras, and Michael Mann offer their thoughts.

Michele W. Berger

Discovering new ways to control light
Microscopic view of iron phosphorous trisulfide.

The different colors in this sample of iron phosphorous trisulfide (FePS3) correspond to regions with varying thicknesses, which form different “cavity” modes at different wavelengths. (Image: Penn Engineering Today)

Discovering new ways to control light

Researchers found a magnetic property in a class of materials that enables light manipulation on the nanoscale, with implications for applications such as information storage and energy harvesting.

From Penn Engineering Today

Providing naloxone in the emergency department can save lives
A hand holding a syringe on a table with latex gloves and two naloxone kits.

Image: Governor Tom Wolf via Flickr

Providing naloxone in the emergency department can save lives

A survey finds that approximately half of the patients said that they were carrying naloxone after their ED visit and two-thirds planned to continue carrying naloxone in the future.

From Penn LDI

The next generation of leaders in urban planning
from left, a group portrait of Christopher Carlos Brzovic, Jazmin Diaz, Céline Apollon, and Julian Turley.

Penn Today highlights the professional interests, personal experiences, and thoughts on future careers in urban planning and community engagement of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design’s four Moelis Scholars: (from left) Christopher Carlos Brzovic, Jazmin Diaz, Céline Apollon, and Julian Turley.

The next generation of leaders in urban planning

The Moelis Scholars Program supports students from diverse backgrounds in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design’s Master of City Planning program.

Erica K. Brockmeier

Four Penn faculty awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
four faculty faces

Four Penn faculty have been awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. They are (left to right, top to bottom) Daniel Barber in architecture in the Weitzman School of Design and Kimberly Bowes in classical studies, Guthrie Ramsey in music, and Paul Saint-Amour in English, all in the School of Arts & Sciences.

Four Penn faculty awarded Guggenheim Fellowships

Four faculty have been named 2022 Guggenheim Fellows—Daniel Barber in architecture in the Weitzman School of Design and Kimberly Bowes in classical studies, Guthrie Ramsey in music, and Paul Saint-Amour in English in the School of Arts & Sciences.
Empowering refugees through education
Group of students face camera, arm in arm, in front of Perry World House

The student-led Penn for Refugee Empowerment organization offers tutoring and helps refugee-resettlement organizations with after-school programming, child care, home setup, and event assistance.

Empowering refugees through education

The student-led group Penn for Refugee Empowerment offers tutoring and helps refugee-resettlement organizations with after-school programming, child care, home setup, and event assistance.

Kristen de Groot

Absenteeism actively harms everybody—even the students who show up
A high school classroom with several empty desks.

Absenteeism actively harms everybody—even the students who show up

A new brief co-authored by Penn GSE associate professor Michael Gottfried breaks down the issue of absenteeism and introduces a three-tier strategy for administrators, teachers, and parents to employ.

From Penn GSE

Higher rates of chemical sedation among Black psychiatric patients points to inequities
Black patient receiving an injection in the arm by a medical professional.

Higher rates of chemical sedation among Black psychiatric patients points to inequities

Penn Medicine researchers also find that white patients are more likely to be chemically sedated in emergency departments at hospitals that treat high proportion Black patients, suggesting that hospital demographics can impact practice patterns.

From Penn Medicine News

Mark your calendars for Open Enrollment 2022-23
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Mark your calendars for Open Enrollment 2022-23

The annual opportunity for eligible staff and faculty to make changes to their health plan, life insurance, and flexible spending accounts starts April 18 through April 29.

Dee Patel