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COVID-19 and women in the workforce
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Homepage image: During Women’s History Month, researchers across the University examine what we know today about how COVID-19 has affected women in the workforce, from education to STEMM fields.

COVID-19 and women in the workforce

Experts across Penn explain how the pandemic has exacerbated gender inequality and challenged female career advancement in the STEMM fields, education, and business.

Michele W. Berger, Kristina García, Dee Patel, Louisa Shepard

The Philadelphia Orchestra is playing safe
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Results of the experiments so far, along with insights from Penn Medicine’s P.J. Brennan, have helped inform the arrangement of members of The Philadelphia Orchestra as they have resumed performances that are captured and later streamed on their new “Digital Stage.” (Image: The Philadelphia Orchestra)

The Philadelphia Orchestra is playing safe

Penn experts are working with The Philadelphia Orchestra to study the aerosol droplets that wind and brass musicians produce when playing. Their findings, aimed at reducing the risk of COVID-19 transmission, could help the Orchestra once again play together.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Working at the intersection of data science and public policy
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  • Q&A

    • Working at the intersection of data science and public policy

    Ken Steif’s new book, “Public Policy Analytics: Code & Context for Data Science in Government,” available online and in print, provides guidance for how governments and policymakers can use data and algorithms to solve complex service-delivery problems.

    Erica K. Brockmeier

    Young and middle-age adults in the U.S. dying at higher rates
    An image with four maps of the U.S. shaded in different colors, with the text "Males" and "Females" up top. Below the first two maps reads "Absolute changes in mortality rate (ages 25-44) 1990-92 to 2015-17" and underneath that, "Deaths per 100,000 population." Below the bottom two maps reads, "Absolute changes in mortality rate (ages 45-64) 1990-92 to 2015-17" and underneath that, "Deaths per 100,000 population."

    A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine reveals some new trends about working-age adults in the U.S., including what Penn’s Irma Elo considered the most disturbing: Increased mortality among 25- to 44-year-olds from cardiometabolic disease.

  • Q&A

    • Young and middle-age adults in the U.S. dying at higher rates

    According to a new National Academies report, cardiometabolic conditions now join drug overdoses, alcohol, and suicide as significant mortality causes. In a Q&A, demographer Irma Elo explains.

    Michele W. Berger

    John Legend receives Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship 2021 Alumni Achievement Award
    Screen shot of the panel discussion with all of the speakers on a zoom call

    Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship 2021 Alumni Achievement Award livestream (Clockwise from top left) Wharton Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Karl Ulrich; John Legend; Wharton alumni, Ravi Viswanathan; President Amy Gutmann; Wharton Dean Erika James

     

    John Legend receives Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship 2021 Alumni Achievement Award

    Legend, an undergraduate alumnus, was recently honored by Venture Lab, the University’s entrepreneurship center, during a virtual livestream event.

    Dee Patel

    The joy and power of improvisation
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    The joy and power of improvisation

    With The Unscripted Project, President’s Engagement Prize winners Philip Chen and Meera Menon create an improv curriculum and bring teaching artists to Philadelphia public school students.
    The unbridled brilliance of Julian Abele
    julian abele and his architecture class

    The unbridled brilliance of Julian Abele

    The 1902 graduate of the architecture program is finally starting to receive credit for his vast and iconic portfolio, which includes the central branch of the Free Library, Penn’s President’s House, Harvard’s flagship library, and more than 30 spaces and places on Duke’s campus.
    Behavior Change for Good unveils effective strategies to boost vaccination rates
    A person standing in the front of a classroom holding a pointer, smiling. Blurry water bottles appear in the foreground.

    Katy Milkman co-directs the Behavior Change for Good initiative with Penn’s Angela Duckworth. Milkman is also the James G. Dinan Endowed Professor and a professor of operations, information, and decisions at the Wharton School. She has a secondary appointment in the Perelman School of Medicine. (Image: Eric Sucar)

    Behavior Change for Good unveils effective strategies to boost vaccination rates

    Texts with “reserved for you” messaging boosted flu vaccine rates by up to 11%.

    Michele W. Berger

    Gutmann, Moreno talk ‘Pandemic Ethics’ at Power of Penn event
    Mitchell Gutmann and Moreno at Power of Penn Zoom event

    Gutmann, Moreno talk ‘Pandemic Ethics’ at Power of Penn event

    The co-authors of ‘Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die’ joined virtually with moderator Andrea Mitchell and Penn Alumni to discuss the many bioethical concerns that have only heightened with COVID-19’s spread.

    Lauren Hertzler