| Penn Today

2023-04-06

The White Backlash

Elijah Anderson, the Sterling Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Yale, gives a talk on white backlash in the U.S., in which white people have resisted efforts toward racial progress spanning from the Civil Rights Movement until now.

6:00 p.m.

Arthur Ross Gallery, Fisher Fine Arts Library, 220 S. 34th St.

Penn Engineering researchers receive Best Paper Award

Jing (Jane) Li, Linus Y. Wong and Jialiang Zhang are recipients of the Best Paper Award at the 31st Association for Computing Machinery for their paper titled, “DONGLE: Direct FPGA-Orchestrated NVMe Storage for HLS.” The paper introduces a programming model and storage architecture to tackle big data challenges in fields like machine learning, data analytics and graph processing.

Penn Athletics receives big boost to men’s and women’s lacrosse programs

The $5 million commitment from Penn alum James H. Greene and his late wife, Marritje V. Greene will establish the Greene Family Lacrosse Fund, which will provide ongoing financial support for the men's and women's intercollegiate lacrosse programs at Penn.

Behavioral flags in the emergency department risk unintended consequences

Many emergency nurses and physicians report experiencing physical, verbal, and sexual abuse while at work. In response, clinicians can add a marker to a patient’s electronic health record (EHR) referred to as a “behavioral flag.” Penn LDI researchers have examined the prevalence of behavioral flags placed in patients’ EHRs during emergency department (ED) visits in order to understand the frequency of their use, and investigated if there was a difference in how often Black and white patients were flagged.

USA Today

Subscription fatigue: More companies are charging monthly fees. How much can consumers take?

Raghuram Iyengar of the Wharton School says that subscription models provide an opportunity for companies to segment the market.

Harvard Business Review

Generative AI won’t revolutionize search—yet

In a co-authored Op-Ed, Kartik Hosanagar of the Wharton School writes that the public’s infatuation with ChatGPT will fade as the practical realities and limitations of the technology set in.

Al Día

Teenager pedals her way to the University of Pennsylvania

Mexican American Sarahi Franco-Morales from Philadelphia will receive a full scholarship as an incoming first-year in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Elle Décor

Meet Minerva Parker Nichols, the groundbreaking, totally badass female architect you’ve never heard of

Alumna Molly Lester of the Weitzman School of Design and a curatorial team at the Architectural Archives are honoring architect Minerva Parker Nichols with an exhibition.

KALW

Dorothy Roberts says it’s time to abolish the child welfare system

PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts appears on “Your Call” to discuss her new book, “Torn Apart,” which argues that the child welfare system should be abolished and replaced with a radically different way of supporting families.

Elle Décor