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Climate resilience, economic competitiveness, and equity at the megaregional level
portraits of fritz steiner and bob yaro alongside the cover of their book with a map of the united states and the title megaregions and america's future

In a Q&A about their new book “Megaregions and America’s Future,” Dean Frederick Steiner (left) and Emeritus Professor of Practice Robert Yaro of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design discuss how megaregions in the U.S. can address complex challenges.

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    • Climate resilience, economic competitiveness, and equity at the megaregional level

    In “Megaregions and America’s Future,” Emeritus Professor of Practice Robert Yaro and Dean Frederick Steiner discuss how megaregions in the U.S. can address complex challenges.

    Erica K. Brockmeier

    Elizabeth Heller’s lab uncovers how drug addiction can create lasting changes in genes
    Elizabeth Heller.

    Elizabeth Heller, assistant professor of pharmacology and head of the Heller Lab.

    Elizabeth Heller’s lab uncovers how drug addiction can create lasting changes in genes

    Leading a neuroepigenetics lab at her alma mater, Heller and the work of her 10-person lab is focused on molecular brain mechanisms, aiming to uncover chronic changes that can happen and keep happening in the brain long after exposure to addictive substances ends.

    Alex Gardner

    Earth Week offers immersive opportunities to connect with nature
    Two people with farming tools work in a field in an urban environment

    Multiple opportunities during Earth Week will give members of the Penn community a chance to get their hands dirty in nature, including an orchard work day and a volunteer day at Penn Park Farm. (Image: Kylie Cooper)

    Earth Week offers immersive opportunities to connect with nature

    Organized by Penn Sustainability, Earth Week, with nearly 50 events running April 17-24, offers a diverse slate of both in-person and online chances to learn about and engage with the environment.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Four Penn faculty awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
    four faculty faces

    Four Penn faculty have been awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. They are (left to right, top to bottom) Daniel Barber in architecture in the Weitzman School of Design and Kimberly Bowes in classical studies, Guthrie Ramsey in music, and Paul Saint-Amour in English, all in the School of Arts & Sciences.

    Four Penn faculty awarded Guggenheim Fellowships

    Four faculty have been named 2022 Guggenheim Fellows—Daniel Barber in architecture in the Weitzman School of Design and Kimberly Bowes in classical studies, Guthrie Ramsey in music, and Paul Saint-Amour in English in the School of Arts & Sciences.
    Creating global systems for evidence-informed oral health policy
    Dental faculty member Alonso Carrasco-Labra

    With a background in evidence-based medicine and dentistry, Alonso Carrasco-Labra brings unique skills and perspective to the School of Dental Medicine.

    (Image: Kevin Monko)

    Creating global systems for evidence-informed oral health policy

    Alonso Carrasco-Labra, who joined the School of Dental Medicine in 2021, is a leader in developing new policy and clinical guidelines across areas of medicine.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Climate scientist Michael Mann to join Penn faculty
    Michael E. Mann.

    Michael E. Mann is Penn’s inaugural Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science. (Image: Joshua Yospin)

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    Climate scientist Michael Mann to join Penn faculty

    Mann is the first new faculty member to be recruited as part of the recently announced Energy and Sustainability Initiative as a Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Links between diet and cancer
    Kathryn Wellen in her lab.

    Kathryn E. Wellen, an associate professor of cancer biology and principal investigator of the Wellen Lab.

    Links between diet and cancer

    Kathryn E. Wellen, an associate professor of Cancer Biology and principal investigator of the Wellen Lab, seeks answers to find the connections between metabolism and cancer biology.

    From Penn Medicine News

    Penn Law reacts to the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
    Ketanji Brown Jackson.

    Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a U.S. Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in her office at the court in Washington. (Image: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

    Penn Law reacts to the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

    President Joe Biden has selected the Honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit as his nominee to the Supreme Court.

    From Penn Carey Law

    Robert Gerard Pietrusko on landscape design, spatial modeling, and conspiracy theories
    Person standing in front of two giant panels of film projected on the wall of NASA footage of a storm on planet Earth.

    Still from In Plain Sight, a geospatial documentary that critiques the NASA “night lights” dataset and reveals locations with lights and no people, and locations with populations living in the dark. (Image: Weitzman News)

    Robert Gerard Pietrusko on landscape design, spatial modeling, and conspiracy theories

    Robert Gerard Pietrusko joined the standing faculty of the Department of Landscape Architecture as an associate professor, and teaches a landscape architecture studio called Conspiracy as Method, which looks at a number of natural disasters that have been attributed to climate change.

    From the Weitzman School of Design

    Black histories and Black futures
    students in lecture hall

    Homepage image: Chinaza Okonkwo of Los Angeles was one of 65 students enrolled in the 2018 Africana Studies Summer Institute, now in its 36th year. The Institute is one of the hallmarks of the Africana Studies Department. 

    Black histories and Black futures

    Professors and students reflect on 50 years of Black studies at Penn.

    Kristina García