COVID-19 News

Traffic planners, securities traders and military strategists all use it. Simulating the behavior of millions of idiosyncratic individuals also may be the best way to understand complex phenomena like pandemics.

Cristina Bicchieri of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about modeling safe behavior to prevent the spread of COVID-19. “To create a new norm,” she said, “you need to build this sense that other people are following the rules.”

Governors can limit COVID-19 spread through persuasion and mandates, our research shows. Republicans who broke with prevailing GOP views had most impact.

Cristina Bicchieri, Penn Professor of Philosophy and Psychology and Wharton Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, joins Wharton Business Daily host Dan Loney to discuss new social norms resulting from COVID-19.

Chemistry faculty adapt to working remotely as the coronavirus stifles lab activity.

Supriya Roychoudhury, a political geographer and analyst at the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies, Newnham College, University of Cambridge, argues that internationalism and domestic attentiveness should be the new Indian humanitarianism.

Alex Chen, a doctoral candidate in anthropology, studies emerging disease preparedness.

Richard Berk, Professor of Criminology, was recently quoted in a Philly Magazine article about the increased crime rate in Philadelphia following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.

Cristina-Ioana Dragomir, a 2016 CASI Visiting Scholar, emphasizes that traditionally nomadic communities need the help of local and regional governments to ensure their survival through the pandemic.

Courtney Boen, Assistant Professor of Sociology, recently co-authored an opinion article in The Hill about the health inequalities that have resulted from the coronavirus pandemic.

The situation around COVID-19 can be overwhelming, but experts from Penn’s Positive Psychology Center offer advice to get through—or at the very least, get by.

Students in David Roos’ biology course had been studying pandemics. Now they’re learning in real time how public health scientists attempt to understand COVID-19.

Shashank Srinivasan, founder of Technology for Wildlife, talks about the need for civilian technologists to ensure their worker is being used for the good of the nation and not to press people.

Kok-Chor Tan, Professor of Philosophy, says the ways in which individuals are affected by the pandemic are a result of a complex tapestry of economic, social, and cultural factors.

History professor Brent Cebul talks about lessons politicians can take from the Great Depression and the New Deal and how disasters like the current pandemic can change politics.

Professor of English Josephine Park discusses the history of Asian-American racism in the U.S. and how it connects to today’s use of ‘Chinese virus’ to describe COVID-19.

Sarah Barringer Gordon, the Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History, offers a commentary on American political responses to epidemics past.

Jonathan Moreno, David and Lyn Silfen University Professor of Ethics, examines the relationship between public health principles and economic growth.

John MacDonald, Professor of Criminology, comments on how the pandemic is affecting crime rates.

In the coming weeks, Perry World House will post regular entries in a “Penn Pandemic Diary” that will record what undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows from around Penn are seeing and feeling during the historic coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. 

Hanming Fang, Class of 1965 Term Professor of Economics, and colleagues have released a working paper showing that the lockdown of the city of Wuhan played a crucial role in reducing cases of COVID-19 in other Chinese cities and halting the spread of the virus.

Julia Lynch, Associate Professor of Political Science, discusses the national coordinated policy response to the pandemic.

Shashank Srinivasan, founder of Technology for Wildlife, talks about the need for civilian technologists to ensure their worker is being used for the good of the nation and not to press people.

Kok-Chor Tan, Professor of Philosophy, says the ways in which individuals are affected by the pandemic are a result of a complex tapestry of economic, social, and cultural factors.

History professor Brent Cebul talks about lessons politicians can take from the Great Depression and the New Deal and how disasters like the current pandemic can change politics.

Professor of English Josephine Park discusses the history of Asian-American racism in the U.S. and how it connects to today’s use of ‘Chinese virus’ to describe COVID-19.

Sarah Barringer Gordon, the Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History, offers a commentary on American political responses to epidemics past.

Jonathan Moreno, David and Lyn Silfen University Professor of Ethics, examines the relationship between public health principles and economic growth.

John MacDonald, Professor of Criminology, comments on how the pandemic is affecting crime rates.

Hanming Fang, Class of 1965 Term Professor of Economics, and colleagues have released a working paper showing that the lockdown of the city of Wuhan played a crucial role in reducing cases of COVID-19 in other Chinese cities and halting the spread of the virus.

Julia Lynch, Associate Professor of Political Science, discusses the national coordinated policy response to the pandemic.