Supported by a two-year research–practice partnership grant from the Spencer Foundation, PhilWP is partnering with Independence National Historical Park and The Colored Girls Museum to create a “living archive” of the often-overlooked stories of Black youth in Philadelphia.

New research from Wharton’s Matt Killingsworth suggests that happiness keeps increasing with income, far beyond expected.

Andrew Modzelewski, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Penn Vet, has been named to the 2024 class of Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering. He will receive $875,000 in individual grant funding, distributed over five years, for his research investigating the role of ancient viruses and mobile elements, known as retrotransposons, in development and disease.

Rahul Mangharam, professor in electrical and systems engineering and in computer and information science and a founding member of the PRECISE Center, joins a collaborative team investigating “Trustworthy AI for Transportation Cyber Physical Systems” with a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation and its MSI Expansion Program to address both the safety and trustworthiness of the AI that powers autonomous vehicles and transportation systems.

Margo Brooks Carthon, the Tyson Family Endowed Term Chair for Gerontological Research, professor of nursing in the Department of Family and Community Health, and associate director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, has been appointed the new director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing.

A randomized controlled trial led by LDI senior fellow Barbara Riegel of Penn’s School of Nursing has identified a virtual health coaching intervention that helped lessen stress for unpaid family caregivers who often neglect their own care.

The 2024 Campus Programming Directory produced by The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research raises the visibility of information that can help students with experience in foster care in Pennsylvania find higher education access and success.

The Consortium unites AI creators and users, academics, government and industry researchers, and civil society organizations in support of the development and deployment of safe and trustworthy artificial intelligence. It brings together more than 280 organizations to develop science-based and empirically backed guidelines and standards for AI measurement and policy.

Eight 2024 Penn Carey Law graduates have received prestigious national public interest fellowships.