University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Dean Andrew M. Hoffman, center, moderated a discussion with Jonathan Thompson and Grace Wu on tradeoffs in land use for renewable energy.
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Balancing renewable energy development and land protection
In an Energy Week event, Grace Wu and Jonathan Thompson provided perspectives on tradeoffs in land use from their work in California and Massachusetts.
R. Ramesh, assisting superintending archaeologist at the Archaeological Survey of India, adjusted a measuring tape at an archaeological site in India before he and Penn's Kathleen Morrison took samples for paleoenvironmental analysis from a Neolithic (3000-1200 BCE) deposit.
(Image: Courtesy of Kathleen Morrison)
Looking to the past to understand the impacts of human land use in South Asia
An international group of scholars, including archaeologists from the School of Arts & Sciences, synthesized archaeological evidence in South Asia from 12,000 and 6,000 years ago.
As part of Energy Week in 2024, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy Research Director Angela Pachon moderated a discussion with Kleinman Center Senior Fellow Danny Cullenward on decarbonizing the industrial sector.
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Fifth Energy Week to bring Penn community together around solutions
More than two dozen events held Feb. 10-14 will give students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to learn about energy-related research and work at Penn and beyond.
Art Matters: ‘Fantine’ collage in Ryan Veterinary Hospital
Richard Lichter, a member of the Penn Vet Board of Advisors, commissioned a piece of his late golden retriever, made up of photos of nearly 500 shelter dogs who received lifesaving care from Penn Vet.
More than a year in as Annenberg dean, Sarah Banet-Weiser focuses on care and collaboration
Drawing on her background as a scholar of gender in media and founder of the Center for Collaborative Communication, she is supporting community members as they drive communication research around democracy, climate, health, and more.
Hospitals that serve more Black patients have poorer nurse staffing, study shows
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing researchers and collaborators found that hospitals serving disproportionately Black patients have more patients per nurse.
At the symposium “Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk?” Annenberg School for Communication professor Guobin Yang, left, participated in a panel on the past and present of risks in academia associated with visibility and surveillance. Annenberg doctoral student Anjali DasSarma, right, moderated the panel. Yang’s Center on Digital Culture and Society hosted the event with Annenberg professor Barbie Zelizer’s Center for Media at Risk.
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Addressing the ‘catch-22’ academics face on social media
The Annenberg School for Communication’s Center for Media at Risk and Center for Digital Culture and Society brought together scholars to analyze the interconnected benefits and risks that academics face using social media.
Researchers from the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project at the Positive Psychology Center helped the New York Public Library analyze results of a patron survey on the well-being benefits of libraries.
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The psychology behind the well-being benefits of libraries
Penn’s Humanities and Human Flourishing Project at the Positive Psychology Center helped the New York Public Library contextualize results of a patron survey on well-being.
