2025 graduate Srishti Jainapur recording the temperature on a freezer.
(Image: Courtesy of Penn Climate)
The Freezer Inventory Project, launched in late 2023, aims to improve the efficiency of a major energy strain: ultra-low temperature freezers. The Project involves involves locating freezers across campus, assessing their condition, and recording observations in an online inventory system managed by the Office of Environmental Health and Radiation Safety.
Researchers at Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine are leading a multidisciplinary land-use project that blends trees, livestock, and streamside buffers to turn New Bolton Center into a living lab for stewardship agriculture, to explore the intersection of animal agriculture and the natural environment.
Craig Roncace, Penn’s urban park manager, oversees a team of 60+ staff members dedicated to waste management and campus maintenance.
As Penn’s urban park manager, Craig Roncace leads a versatile team in charge of outdoor maintenance, waste management, and sustainability initiatives across campus. Roncace has served in his role on the Operations and Maintenance team in Penn Facilities & Real Estate Services since 2016.
“The adoption of new energy technologies and infrastructure is obviously central to the clean energy transition, and given the urgency of climate change, it is not wrong to focus on technological solutions,” the authors write. “Yet, many people often assume that clean energy technologies mostly generate win-win solutions, which we argue in the book fails to recognize the social context for their adoption and use.”
When the Schuylkill swallowed the city: Lessons from Hurricane Ida’s historic flood
New Penn research shows that Hurricane Ida wasn’t a once-in-a-century anomaly but a preview of how climate change, urbanization, and aging infrastructure are rewriting flood risk.
The Fed explained: What it does and why it matters
Former Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker and financial historian Peter Conti-Brown, both Wharton professors, unpack the central bank’s origins, its unusual structure, and the quiet ways it shapes the economy
How population changes are impacting primary education worldwide
Research from Penn sociologist Emily Hannum and colleagues reveals regional trends in whether school-age populations are increasing, plateauing, or decreasing—and shows how different countries are responding.
A bioengineered bean gum from the lab of Penn Dental’s Henry Daniell is found to reduce the levels of three microbes associated with head and neck squamous cell cancer to almost zero, without affecting the beneficial bacteria normally found in the mouth.
Fighting oral cancer with bioengineered chewing gum
Research led by Penn Dental’s Henry Daniell shows that antiviral and antibacterial chewing gums reduce the levels of three microbes linked to worse outcomes in oral cancers, paving the way for more effective and affordable therapies.
