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Paris Perdikaris led research on lifesaving and more cost-effective weather predictions
Penn professor Paris Perdikaris and collaborators developed Aurora, a machine-learning model that has predictive capabilities for air quality, ocean waves, tropical cyclone tracks, and weather.
Sashank Prasad (left), chief of Neurology at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, and Raymond Price, chief of Neurology at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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Neurobowl reimagines how the next generation of neurologists is trained
Sashank Prasad and Raymond Price have collaborated for years on an online quiz-show to teach uncommon neurological conditions for Penn Medicine students, and have introduced the program to other institutions as well.
Study sheds light on why for-profit hospitals have worse nursing and patient outcomes
Penn Nursing researchers find that for-profit facilities in Illinois have lower investments in nursing services than not-for-profit ones, despite no statistically significant difference in operating margins.
Lillian Miller (left) graduated as a chemistry and environmental scieces double major in May. This summer, she returns to begin her graduate training in Irina Marinov’s (right), where researchers use big data and computational techniques to make better climate models.
Lillian Miller, a May graduate from the College, will begin graduate studies in the laboratory of Irina Marinov this summer, where she is leveraging big data to tackle ocean and climate-focused research.
The White House’s tax bill will consider SALT (again). What’s that mean for you?
Kent Smetters of the Wharton School says that protective zoning privileges existing homeowners at the expense of new development, which leads to increased property taxes in some higher-income states.
New studies show what’s at stake if Medicaid is scaled back
A study co-authored by Eric Roberts of the Perelman School of Medicine finds that patients who lose access to Medicaid and Medicare coverage fill fewer prescriptions on average and are more likely to die, depending on their conditions and drug costs.
Is empathy required in the age of AI — or can we just outsource it?
Lynn Wu of the Wharton School says that machine-generated data produces worse content than human data when it’s fed into an AI algorithm, causing the output of generative AI to gradually degrade when it relies solely on itself.
FDA significantly limits access to COVID-19 vaccines
Susan Ellenberg of the Perelman School of Medicine wants to avoid a situation where people who don’t fall into a “recommended” category couldn’t get a vaccine if they wanted it.
Patients with controlled psoriasis still face systemic inflammation, cardiometabolic risks
A study co-authored by Joel M. Gelfand of the Perelman School of Medicine finds that residual inflammation persists among patients with psoriasis despite optimal disease response to biologic therapies, putting them at risk for broader health conditions.
