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Nursing home staffing during the pandemic

While the pandemic hit nursing homes especially hard, one area it did not suffer is in staffing. A new study finds that staffing levels in nursing homes did not decrease during the pandemic.

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Mystics and visionaries: A fine arts seminar

The Weitzman School’s Jackie Tileston’s seminar looks at the ways in which alternative forms of knowledge have fed artistic practices, both in the past and for contemporary artists in cultures around the globe.

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The relationship between diversity, equity, and inclusion and the workplace

A new study out of Wharton—“Improving Workplace Culture Through Evidence-Based Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Practices”—examines the relationship between diversity, equity and inclusion practices and a variety of workplace outcomes.

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Urban planning and politics in Atlanta

Akira Rodríguez’s new book, “Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing” explores how the intersection of race and public housing development planning in Atlanta created a politics of resistance.

Vijay Kumar reappointed dean of Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science

Kumar, the Nemirovsky Family Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, will serve as dean through June 30, 2027.

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Do you prefer cats or dogs? Why self-expression increases giving

Wharton’s Jonah Berger discusses his new research on how giving consumers the opportunity for self-expression can increase tipping and charitable giving.

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A fair housing law proposal to promote racial and economic integration

A research brief co-authored by Provost Wendell Pritchett proposes the use of fair housing law to work toward the end of segregation, and emphasize that the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing provision of the Fair Housing Act extends to all federal agencies.

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Game-changing gift announced at inaugural Penn Africa Research Symposium

The $5 million gift creates the Holman Africa Initiative, expanding financial aid and enhancing opportunities for faculty and students to engage in research and teaching in and on Africa.

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Turning an archaeological practice on its head

In a new book, Megan Kassabaum challenges the field to take a forward-looking approach, rather than one that looks backward. She does this through the study of a Native American architectural feature called platform mounds.

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Newly described horned dinosaur from New Mexico was the earliest of its kind

With a frilled head and beaked face, Menefeeceratops sealeyi lived 82 million years ago, predating its relative, Triceratops. Researchers including Peter Dodson, of the School of Veterinary Medicine, and Steven Jasinski, who recently earned his doctorate from the School of Arts & Sciences, describe the find.

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