5/10
Prospect of losing money pushes people to achieve fitness goals
It’s common for employers to offer financial incentives to encourage employees to care more about their health. The healthier the workforce, the more productive the workplace will be. But what’s most motivating to these employees? What can be offered to really change people’s bad habits? Three Penn researchers are working to find the answers.
Staff Q&A with Michael Rose
Michael Rose works every day to make sure all productions offered at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts are meaningful.
30x30 Challenge encourages Penn community to enjoy nature
Eat your lunch in the Penn Law School’s courtyard. Discover new creatures while sitting on a bench at the BioPond. Take a stroll down Locust Walk, through Penn Park, or even over the South Street Bridge.
NYT journalist to discuss her time with refugees fleeing Syria
For a month last summer, Anemona Hartocollis, a reporter for The New York Times, followed refugee families from Syria through northern Greece, across Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary, Austria, Germany, and Denmark. They walked, took buses, and caught trains.
Spring I-Corps program sets up early-stage ideas for seed funding
Four master’s students in the Integrated Product Design program created the idea for Cobi, an office robot that boosts employee morale, during PennApps in the fall.
Designing a more equitable Philadelphia
Dating back 165 years, most of the neighborhoods in Philadelphia were their own municipalities. In 1854 they merged, creating the consolidated City and County of Philadelphia. Tasked with brainstorming ideas to make Philadelphia a more equitable city, a group at a design workshop at Penn earlier this week suggested getting rid of that very Consolidation Act.
From Broadway to Penn’s grandest stage
Just because tickets to see the musical “Hamilton” on Broadway are sold out through December doesn’t mean the Penn community won’t get to see Lin-Manuel Miranda anytime soon.
Staff Q&A with Jason Erdman
One day Jason Erdman might be leading a hiking group at Nockamixon State Park, the next he could be stand-up paddle boarding at Cape Henlopen. He might be biking the Lehigh Gorge trail or rock climbing at Safe Harbor. Every workday is different, which makes it an exciting job.
Overhauled University Club reopens with revamped lunch menu
It’s a hub for the Penn community, and it just got a major facelift.
Nearly 20 years of research on the AIDS epidemic in Malawi
It was 1998 when demographer Hans-Peter Kohler first got involved with a research project in rural Malawi. Nearly two decades later, the project, dubbed Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health, which explores the AIDS epidemic, is still in full swing. So is Kohler’s commitment to it.