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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Alison Buttenheim of the School of Nursing understands the frustration of parents still waiting to find a vaccine appointment.
Penn In the News
Katherine Cotter and James Pawelski of the School of Arts & Sciences are quoted on their work showing that visiting a museum can have measurable mental health benefits.
Penn In the News
Horace Delisser of the Perelman School of Medicine explains how a substantial benefit of the summer program for Black med students is its financial aid offerings.
Penn In the News
Frederick Bushman of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on COVID variant tracking: “If we know what variants are involved, what their properties are, we can tell what to expect by sort of forecasting by the experience of other places that are ahead of us, based on our sequence and knowledge of the different variants.”
Penn In the News
Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw of the School of Arts & Sciences can see the Brick House sculpture from her office window and comments that it has become an iconic work of art on the campus at Penn.
Penn In the News
John Wherry of the Perelman School of Medicine says that as antibody levels go down to expect more mild infections and more asymptomatic infections now that there is increased testing.
Penn In the News
Linda Aiken of the Nursing School comments on a court case that may make nurses less forthcoming about medical mistakes.
Penn In the News
Marilyn Howarth of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on how levels of poverty lead to high risk of lead poisoning and how the Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health is responding to it.
Penn In the News
Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine led a study that proves that mRNA technology could be used to deliver an HIV vaccine. Future research will explore developing mRNA vaccines for herpes, influenza, and other viruses.
Penn In the News
The Penn Program in Environmental Humanities’ Ecotopian Toolkit competition is soliciting proposals for tools to help the greater Philadelphia region address impacts of climate change. “One of the things that the project is really keen to develop is helping Philadelphians, and people really across the whole watershed, understand the ways that the water really connects to them and to their lives,” said Bethany Wiggin.