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  • Diversity in the Stacks: The Muslims in Japan collection

    A new collection focuses on the Turkish-speaking and Muslim communities in interwar and Pacific War-era Japan.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →

  • 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 →

  • Leah Kahler named 2024-2025 McHarg Fellow

    The landscape designer and researcher will serve in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Weitzman School with a critical focus on the nursery trade and the complex horticultural histories of the profession.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • 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 →

  • 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 →

  • 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.

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  • 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 →

  • Penn Medicine and Union partner for community fridge to fight hunger

    The community refrigerator and accompanying pantry contributes to ongoing efforts to address food insecurity at the Boys & Girls Club of Chester.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →