Penn Dental Medicine has signed a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg as part of a recent visit to South Africa and Tanzania by Penn Dental Medicine’s Morton Amsterdam Dean, Mark S. Wolff, who said, “We look forward to future research, collaboration, and exchanges between our faculty and students and to collaborate with schools in Southern and Eastern Africa.”

With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Annenberg Public Policy Center will expand a new public health media model for blunting the impact of deceptive claims about health by using a preemptive, protective approach that aims to minimize the public’s susceptibility to them.

Wharton’s Eric Bradlow and FanDuel CEO Amy Howe discuss how analytics can benefit teams, players, and customers while ensuring the necessary data protections.

A new study from the Annenberg School for Communication reveals that having a sense of purpose in daily life can influence college students’ decisions on day-to-day alcohol consumption.

The Housing Initiative at Penn has been selected to receive over $600,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to study the impact of the Treasury Emergency Rental Assistance Program on housing stability, and particularly on eviction.

Penn engineers have created a moisture collection and removal devices utilizing the geometry of simple materials to collect atmospheric water without an external energy source, made up of three-dimensional pyramid structures. Collecting atmospheric water could help adapt to both severe dry spells and inundating amounts of precipitation by providing a source of freshwater or dehumidifying humid places.

In a topping off ceremony last month, the final piece of structural steel was lifted into place and secured to complete the new connector between 3700 Walnut and Stiteler Hall. The $35.6-million project is scheduled for completion in fall 2023.

The new Penn Achilles Tendinopathy Center of Research Translation seeks to build insights that lead to better treatment of Achilles tendon injuries.