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  • Sonal Khullar selected as 2024-25 Harvard Radcliffe Fellow

    Khullar is an art historian who writes on modern and contemporary art from South Asia, with a particular interest in histories of cosmopolitanism, postcolonial art worlds, and critical historiographies of art. She will work on a book on art and war in Sri Lanka across the 20th century.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences

  • Revolutionizing nurse work environment research

    New research from Penn Nursing’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research has successfully validated a new, streamlined version of the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index, originally authored in 2002 by Eileen T. Lake.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • What it’s like to start a nonprofit newsroom

    A new study explores the working conditions of journalists who leave commercial journalism to start digital-first nonprofit news outlets.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication

  • Karen Xu honored with P.E.O. Scholar Award

    Xu, a 2024 doctoral graduate in bioengineering, is one of 100 doctoral students in the U. S. and Canada selected to receive a $25,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today

  • Featured Books and DVDs: AAPI Heritage Month

    The Penn Libraries is featuring works of talented writers, illustrators, filmmakers, and actors of of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islander backgrounds.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries

  • Do accelerators improve startup success rates?

    Accelerator programs boost startup performance across the board, but maximizing that success depends on program design, Wharton research shows.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • How financial frictions hinder innovation

    A recent study co-authored by Wharton’s Thomas Winberry reveals that financially constrained firms face a trade-off between investing in existing ideas and pursuing new ones.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • Incoming Katz Center fellows

    Penn’s Herbert D. Katz Center For Advanced Judaic Studies has announced the incoming cohort of international fellows for the 2024–25 fellowship year devoted to new research at the intersection of Jewish studies and medicine, broadly conceived.

    FULL STORY AT Herbert D. Katz Center

  • Disability rights photography by Harvey Finkle featured for second annual Art @ SP2 Exhibit

    The images lining the lobby walls and rotating on a screen in SP2’s Caster building are the work of celebrated social justice photographer and SP2 alumnus Harvey Finkle, selections from “Faces of Independence: Liberty Resources 30th Anniversary Project.”

    FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice

  • Celebrating 70 years of water fluoridation in Philadelphia

    On May 1, Penn Dental Medicine and PA Coalition for Oral Health co-hosted a special event celebrating 70 years of community water fluoridation in Philadelphia and promoting water fluoridation as an essential public health measure.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine