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Math education and engagement in West Philadelphia
two people looking at a student who is pointing at a math equation on a white board

This fall, students in Math 123, one of Penn’s Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) courses, applied the skills they learned about math education and communication while working with tenth graders in West Philadelphia.

Math education and engagement in West Philadelphia

This fall, students in Math 123 applied the skills they learned about math education and communication while working with 10th graders at Paul Robeson High School.

Erica K. Brockmeier

Making time off a time for side gigs for good
mary berger

Making time off a time for side gigs for good

Penn Today profiles four faculty and staff members who use their time and talents to help others.

Michele W. Berger, Katherine Unger Baillie

From foundational discoveries to profound impact
weissman and kariko in the lab Today, Weissman and colleagues are working to develop a pan-coronavirus vaccine capable of protecting the population against SARS, MERS, SARS-CoV-2, and more. At BioNTech, Karikó is overseeing parallel but distinct research on a range of diseases in which patients receive mRNA encoding therapeutic proteins. (Image: Peggy Peterson)

From foundational discoveries to profound impact

How decades of mRNA research at Penn made powerful new COVID-19 vaccines possible—and opened a new vista for future discoveries.

Ashley Rabinovitch

Millions embrace COVID-19 misinformation, which is linked to vaccine hesitancy
healthcare professional with syringe and vaccine

Millions embrace COVID-19 misinformation, which is linked to vaccine hesitancy

Millions continue to believe misinformation about vaccination and COVID-19, and these beliefs are associated with hesitancy to get themselves and their children vaccinated—or, if they are vaccinated, to get a booster for added protection.

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

The COVID landscape after a year with vaccines
Vials labeled "SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 Vaccine" lit up with neon light on a machine filling them.

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The COVID landscape after a year with vaccines

In a conversation hosted by LDI, experts from Penn, the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations discussed the vaccine rollout, boosters, misinformation, and more.

Michele W. Berger

In Peru and the U.S., considering the factors that drive public health
Michael Levy

Michael Z. Levy, whose own research uses interdisciplinary methods to shed light on epidemiology and public health, taught the course with colleague César Ugarte-Gil and featured a bevy of guest experts. (Image: Peggy Peterson)

In Peru and the U.S., considering the factors that drive public health

By comparing and contrasting the two nations’ approaches to controlling infectious diseases, students in Parallel Plagues deepened their appreciation of how these diseases emerge, cause harm, and might be effectively controlled.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Preparing, and paying for, climate change-induced disasters
Aftermath of severe storm on a neighborhood with damaged houses and strewn debris.

In the aftermath of natural disasters, cleanup and recovery costs can soar. With climate change fueling more severe weather events, the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center is innovating new strategies for building resilience and helping victims bounce back. 

Preparing, and paying for, climate change-induced disasters

In the wake of a series of unusual and devastating December tornadoes, Carolyn Kousky of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center tells Penn Today about strategies for resilience and recovery.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Fighting food insecurity
Four women in front of the Share food bank, and the two in the middle are waving to each other

Laura Guerrero Peña (second from left), a senior studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Queens, New York, worked at Share Food Program over the fall semester.

Fighting food insecurity

Students from the Fox Leadership Program have lent their time and expertise to hunger organizations for more than a decade, and during the pandemic they’ve upped their involvement to meet the growing need.

Kristen de Groot

New atomically-thin material could improve efficiency of light-based tech
Rendering of layers of anatomically-thin material.

So-called “two-dimensional” materials have unique electrical and photonic properties, but their ultrathin form factors present practical challenges when incorporated into devices. Penn Engineering researchers have now demonstrated a method for making large-area “superlattices”—layered structures containing 2D lattices of sulfur and tungsten—that can achieve light-matter coupling. (Image: Penn Engineering Today)

New atomically-thin material could improve efficiency of light-based tech

A new photodetector design from Penn Engineering is not only extremely thin, making it lightweight and cost effective, it can also emit light, not just detect it.

From Penn Engineering Today

Heart disease-protective diabetes drug is not used equitably
Doctor wearing a mask checks the blood pressure of a patient also wearing a mask.

Heart disease-protective diabetes drug is not used equitably

The medication GLP-1 RA treats diabetes and is linked to positive outcomes for heart disease patients, yet a Penn Medicine study has found inequities in its use along racial, ethnic, and economic lines

From Penn Medicine News