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  • Coronavirus and supply chain disruption: What firms can learn

    Businesses dependent on global sourcing are facing hard choices in crisis management amid the supply chain disruptions. But Senthil Veeraraghavan, Wharton professor of operations, information and decisions, says the choking of supply chains is “a second-order problem,” and the foremost priority is to ensure the availability of medical supplies, while “the first-order problems have to do with medical devices, medical products, productive equipment.”

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  • The implications of smiling at work

    Do you know how your employees really feel about their job? New research shows that an employee’s smile could be a reliable indicator. Ira A. Lipman Associate Professor of Marketing Patti Williams co-authored a paper which investigates how nonverbal cues can be used to improve employee performance. 

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  • Why are markets collapsing? How bad will COVID-19 really be?

    Analyzing four possible scenarios that the pandemic’s evolution could take in the future, Eric K. Clemons, a professor of operations, information and decisions at Wharton, argues that the market reaction is more extreme than any of the likely possible futures would justify. 

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  • Muscle relaxant shows potential to treat neurodegenerative diseases

    A new Penn study shows administering the medication dantrolene through the nose increases its brain concentration and duration in a model of Alzheimer’s disease.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Protective brain-cell housekeeping mechanism may also regulate sleep

    An important biological mechanism that is thought to protect brain cells from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s may also be involved in regulating sleep.

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  • APPC and Penn Law’s CERL form alliance

    The Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) and Penn Law’s Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) have formed an alliance to promote and strengthen the rule of law in democratic institutions.

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  • Law School study identifies challenges women leaders face in law and business

    At Penn Law, under the leadership of Associate Dean Rangita de Silva de Alwis, students have taken up the mantle of identifying the barriers, boundaries, and biases that women face in the legal and business worlds for a new study.

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  • Compton selected for induction to the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame

    Penn Nursing’s Peggy Compton, the van Ameringen Chair in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing and an associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Health, will be honored by Sigma Theta Tau International for her contributions to the nursing profession during the 31st International Nursing Research Congress in Abu Dhabi in July.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • SP2 Task Force on Race and Social Justice puts forth recommendations

    After nearly a year of critical conversations and collaboration, the SP2 Task Force on Race and Social Justice has released a detailed report outlining a set of incisive recommendations aimed at advancing intersectionality, identity, and inclusion among all of the School’s constituent groups.

    FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →

  • Portrait of a caregiver: ‘You have to be a little selfish’

    Richard Bartholomew recounts his time as a caregiver in a conversation with Penn Memory Center co-director Jason Karlawish, MD, during the second of two lectures designed to outline the history and present of Alzheimer’s Disease care to the recently opened Roybal Center on Palliative Care in Dementia.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Memory Center →