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The William P. Carey Professorship in Economics will recognize exemplary faculty at the intersection of economics and political scienc; the inaugural chair holder is Enrique Mendoza, who will assume the title of William P. Carey Professor in Economics.

This is the third cohort of Conway Scholars, funded with a grant from Bedford Falls Foundation, and awarded to 80 high-merit students with financial need.

The newly endowed faculty chair, made possible through a gift from alumna Andrea Pollack and Adam Usdan will support innovative research, teaching, and leadership in the field of special education.

The newest notable gift to the the Annenberg School for Communication is from Pulitzer-prize winning American editorial cartoonist and children’s book illustrator Tony Auth, who is best known for his syndicated work originally drawn for The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1971 to 2012.

A new study by the Communication Neuroscience Lab at the Annenberg School for Communication and colleagues reveals that activity in brain regions associated with reward and social processing can predict the effectiveness of messages.

Kelly Jordan-Sciutto, vice provost for graduate education and chair of the Penn Forward Graduate and Professional Training working group, says, ‘I don’t want students to walk uphill both ways in the snow just because I had to.’

Wharton professor of legal studies and business ethics Kevin Werbach discusses the implications of California’s new AI safety legislation focused on protecting children online.

The vice provost for faculty and the Graduate School for Education Centennial Presidential Professor of Education joins 24 scholars from across the country in the first class of fellows of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

The Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Population Health and Health Equity University Professor in Penn Nursing and Penn Medicine and director of the Program for Men’s Health Equity has been named the first-ever recipient of the Jimmy Boyd Memorial Award for Leadership in Men’s and Boys’ Health by the American Public Health Association Men’s Health Caucus.

A Penn Medicine analysis shows that surveillance of dog rabies in Arequipa, Peru, is lacking in areas with lower socioeconomic status and could spell problems for infectious disease worldwide.