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Enhancing ‘representational equity’ on Wikipedia
People at laptops at a table, one screen open to Wikipedia

Image: Danielle Scruggs/The New York Times/GDA via AP Images

Enhancing ‘representational equity’ on Wikipedia

As part of the inaugural Wiki Education Humanities & Social Justice Advisory Committee, Heather J. Sharkey, a professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, will continue working to improve Wikipedia content on historically underrepresented topics.

From Omnia

Mindfulness, monasticism, and women in Thai Buddhism
Katherine Scahill poses with her arms crossed in front of the Lerner Centeron Penn's campus.

Ph.D. candidate Katherine Scahill poses in front of the Lerner Center.

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Mindfulness, monasticism, and women in Thai Buddhism

Ph.D. candidate Katherine Scahill’s research engages with three communities of female Buddhist monks (bhikkhunī) in Thailand and their chanting traditions.

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Connecting the West Philadelphia community to careers 
west philly skills initiative med worker

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Connecting the West Philadelphia community to careers 

The West Philadelphia Skills Initiative is a workforce development partnership between the University City District, Penn Medicine, and the University committed to develop career opportunities for local residents.

From Penn Medicine Service in Action

Fallon clinches spot on U.S. Olympic team
Matthew Fallon swimming in a pool.

Matthew Fallon is the first American swimmer in Penn’s program history to qualify for the U.S. national team, and only the fifth men’s student-athlete in program history to qualify for the Olympics.

(Image: Tyler Kaput/IUPUI Athletics)

Fallon clinches spot on U.S. Olympic team

The rising fourth-year swimmer won gold in the 200-meter breaststroke at the U.S. Olympic Trials on Wednesday in Indianapolis.
Hurricane changed ‘rules of the game’ in monkey society
A group of rhesus macaques sits amidst the bare, leafless trees of their hurricane-impacted habitat.

For more than 17 years, PIK Professor Michael Platt and his collaborators have followed a free-ranging colony of rhesus macaques in the Puerto Rican Island of Cayo Santiago who, in 2017, experienced the devastation of Hurricane Maria. The team showed that the macaques who invested in relationships had higher survival rates, findings that can provide insights into human social behavior and health in the face of environmental change.

(Image: Courtesy of Lauren J. Brent) 

Hurricane changed ‘rules of the game’ in monkey society

PIK Professor Michael Platt and collaborators from the University of Exeter find Hurricane Maria transformed a monkey society by changing the pros and cons of their interpersonal relations.
With pandemic stimulus funds sunsetting, Penn GSE expert offers investment ideas
Brooks Bowden.

Penn GSE associate professor Brooks Bowden.

(Image: Lora Reehling for Penn GSE)

With pandemic stimulus funds sunsetting, Penn GSE expert offers investment ideas

If school districts have remaining pandemic aid, Penn GSE’s Brooks Bowden says they could invest in data analytics capabilities on information to guide decisions on programs, staff, tutoring services, or technology to meet students’ needs.

From Penn GSE

Replacing registered nurses in high stakes hospital care is dangerous to patients
nursing student taking blood pressure

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Replacing registered nurses in high stakes hospital care is dangerous to patients

A new Penn Nursing study shows that substituting registered nurses with lower-wage staff in hospital care is linked with more deaths, readmissions, longer hospital stays, poorer patient satisfaction, and higher costs of care.

From Penn Nursing News

Making virtual worlds
Lorraine Ruppert wears virtual reality headset.

Lorraine Ruppert wore a virtual reality headset and zoomed in and out of her virtual world, which shows sites of historical memory and resistance in Philadelphia's Chinatown.

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Making virtual worlds

In a class this spring, Jeffrey Vadala of the Penn Brain Science Center taught students to analyze virtual reality landscapes and create their own.