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  • 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.

    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

  • 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

  • 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