Participants of all ages and backgrounds are invited to this Common Press workshop to print a copy of the Declaration of Independence. The composition will be set in Caslon metal type and ready to print on the studio’s 1889 cast-iron handpress. These hour-long demonstrations are part of America 250 at Penn programming. Groups of up to 20 people are welcome. Reserve a time slot.
This seminar will feature Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou, alongside current and former officials at the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and National Science Foundation, providing their honest assessment of the current situation in these federal agencies. Panelists will share their perspectives on how to sustain the unique partnership between the federal government and U.S. universities that advances science and medicine. Free and open to Penn students, faculty, and staff. Register to attend.
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Matthew Levendusky of the School of Arts & Sciences, Annenberg School for Communication, and Annenberg Public Policy Center says, “The one area people do think [AI] will make things better is in medical research.”
Rebecca Boswell of the Perelman School of Medicine says, “There are no screening processes that are recommended for people that are prescribing GLP-1’s for individuals with eating-disorder histories.”
“After decades of relatively flat electric loads nationwide, U.S. electricity demand is experiencing an unprecedented surge,” says Jamie Van Nostrand of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy in the Weitzman School of Design.
Derek Griffith of the School of Nursing says men’s health “has not been something that most administrations — any administration — has really seemed to take seriously at any point in the nation’s history.”