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To protect children online, researchers call for cross-disciplinary collaboration
A child uses a cell phone in a dark room

“Technology often has mixture of benefits and perils,” says Gideon Nave of the Wharton School. He teamed with legal and scientific experts to call for research to fuel evidence-backed laws and policies to protect children in the digital world.

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    • To protect children online, researchers call for cross-disciplinary collaboration

    A team of neuroscientists and legal experts, including Gideon Nave of the Wharton School, published a perspective in Science drawing attention to the need to develop science-backed policies that take into account children’s vulnerabilities in the digital world.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Philly residents still wary about drinking tap water
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    Philly residents still wary about drinking tap water

    PIK Professor Dolores Albarracín discusses Philadelphia’s plan for communicating with residents about the water crisis.

    In a warming world, chief heat officers help adapt, prepare, and protect
    A low sun shines on a city street

    Urban centers are feeling the burden of extreme heat events. Chief heat officers from around the globe will reflect on the challenges they face and the adaptation strategies they are implementing in a discussion at Perry World House.

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    In a warming world, chief heat officers help adapt, prepare, and protect

    In advance of Perry World House’s Global Shifts Colloquium on extreme heat in urban areas, Penn Today spoke with chief heat officers about their role in influencing public awareness, preparedness, and policy.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    States with high COVID-19 death rates also saw high mortality from other causes
    Illustration of COVID-19, made by drawing in red circular orbs with match-like objects sticking out around all of them.

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    States with high COVID-19 death rates also saw high mortality from other causes

    Research from Penn, Boston University, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows that between March 2020 and February 2021 non-COVID deaths accounted for some 20% of excess mortality.

    Michele W. Berger

    What can network theory offer public health?
    Microscopic rendering of a coronavirus cell superimposed over data.

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    What can network theory offer public health?

    Penn Engineering’s Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti and Saswati Sarkar have produced a suite of studies that apply techniques from network and information theory to pandemic control and prevention.

    From Penn Engineering Today

    Bringing Ukraine to Penn
    Dariya Orlova, Olena Lysenko, Serhii Shadrin, Hannah Kaluher, and Maksym Potlov

    (Left to right) Olena Lysenko, a documentary filmmaker, and Dariya Orlova, a lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy; Serhii Shadrin and Hannah Kaluher, graduate students participating in a one-year program for displaced scholars in the Russian and East European Studies Department; and Maksym Potlov, a fourth-year from Odesa, a Penn World Scholar.

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    Bringing Ukraine to Penn

    On the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, displaced and visiting scholars and students from Ukraine share their experience at Penn.

    Kristen de Groot