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Celebrate the arts, history, and nature from home
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Celebrate the arts, history, and nature from home

While Penn’s arts and culture centers remain closed, they are still finding ways to sustain connections through online collections and programs.

From The Power of Penn

With support from parents, teens forge a path to handle social distancing
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With support from parents, teens forge a path to handle social distancing

Adolescents need and value their friends, relationships challenged by COVID-19 restrictions. By having explicit conversations and facilitating remote access to peers, the adults in their lives can help.

Michele W. Berger

Language in tweets offers insight into community-level well-being
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Lyle Ungar, a professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and one of the principal investigators of the World Well-Being Project, which has spent more than half a decade working on ways to grasp the emotional satisfaction and happiness of specific places.

  • Q&A

    • Language in tweets offers insight into community-level well-being

    In a Q&A, researcher Lyle Ungar discusses why counties that frequently use words like ‘love’ aren’t necessarily happier, plus how techniques from this work led to a real-time COVID-19 wellness map.

    Michele W. Berger

    Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Carl June elected to National Academy of Sciences
    Two people side by side in different images. In the one on the left, the person stands in an office and a blue suit, hands crossed low in front. In the one on the right is a person in a tie and white coat that reads, "Carl H. June, M.D. Abramson Cancer Center"

    Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Carl June are among more than 140 new members elected to the National Academy of Sciences. (Image: Eric Sucar (L) and Courtesy of Penn Medicine)

    Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Carl June elected to National Academy of Sciences

    The researchers, from the Annenberg Public Policy Center and the Perelman School of Medicine, join a class of honored scholars recognized for their unique and ongoing contributions to original research.

    Michele W. Berger, Michael Rozansky , John Infanti

    Continued CO2 emissions will impair cognition
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    Continued CO2 emissions will impair cognition

    Rising CO2 causes more than a climate crisis, according to a study from Penn and CU Boulder. It may directly harm our ability to think.

    Michele W. Berger

    Domestic violence and gun sales in the time of COVID-19
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  • Q&A

    • Domestic violence and gun sales in the time of COVID-19

    In a Q&A, School of Social Policy & Practice researcher Susan B. Sorenson describes new challenges surrounding intimate partner violence and the uptick in gun purchases since this crisis began.

    Michele W. Berger

    Rapid response to COVID-19 puts the power of innovation to the test
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    Rapid response to COVID-19 puts the power of innovation to the test

    With a critical need for equipment that can help protect frontline healthcare workers, the Penn community has come together to help fabricate 20,000 face shields by mid- to late-April.

    Erica K. Brockmeier

    Penn junior Misha McDaniel named a Beinecke Scholar
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    Misha McDaniel is a 2020 Beinecke Scholar. 

    Penn junior Misha McDaniel named a Beinecke Scholar

    English major Misha McDaniel has been awarded a 2020 Beinecke Scholarship to pursue graduate education. McDaniel is one of 18 Beinecke Scholars chosen from throughout the U.S., and the 13th recipient from Penn since the award was first given in 1975.