A. Thomas McLellan, an adjunct professor of psychology in Penn Medicine's Department of Psychiatry, has been nominated as the nation’s No. 2 drug czar. If confirmed by the Senate as the Deputy Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, McLellan will advise the president and coordinate anti-drug efforts.
McLellan is one of the nation’s top researchers on drug addiction and treatment, and has published more than 400 articles and chapters on those subjects. As a scientist at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Philadelphia in the 1980s, he led the development of two measures, known as the addiction severity index and treatment services review, that characterized multiple dimensions of substance abuse. The tools, used worldwide, help determine the type and duration of treatment.
In 1991, McLellan also founded the Philadelphia-based Treatment Research Institute, a nonprofit research and development organization dedicated to reducing the devastating effects of alcohol and other drug abuse on individuals, families and communities by employing scientific methods and disseminating evidence-based information.
Materials in the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives include thousands of TV scripts, the first issue of TV Guide, and interviews about the early days of HBO—which help to chronicle TV’s 100-year story.
Centering joy in AI development and implementation
PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton—of Annenberg and SP2—and collaborators introduce a joy-informed framework designed to initiate conversations among engineers, designers, and researchers.
Winter Storm Fern brought icy and snowy conditions to the Northeast and other parts of the country over the weekend. Penn Today asks physicist Robert Carpick about the unique properties of ice, the science of curling, and how close we are to ‘nonslip’ ice.
Organizations like Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships foster collaborations between Penn and public schools in the West Philadelphia community.
Penn receives national distinction for community engagement
The recognition by the American Council on Education and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching acknowledges Penn’s long-standing commitment to community-engaged scholarship and partnerships in West Philadelphia and beyond.
