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  • A new year brings new leadership at Wharton—and it’s female-driven

    As of July, Wharton’s leadership includes three more female faces: Samuel A. Blank Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics Diana C. Robertson; Rachel Werner, the Robert D. Eilers Professor of Health Care Management at Wharton, a professor of medicine at the Perelman School, and a practicing physician at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center; and Nancy Zhang—Wharton professor of statistics, celebrated researcher, and former doctoral program co-director for the stats department.

    FULL STORY AT Wharton Magazine →

  • From policy to pocketbooks: Wharton launches new radio program, ‘Wharton Business Daily’

    The Wharton School announced the launch of Wharton Business Daily, a new morning show airing on SiriusXM Channel 132. The show’s debut on Monday, Nov. 4 will feature a roster of top guests that includes Wharton School Dean Geoff Garrett, former AOL CEO Steve Case and Head of External Affairs for Facebook Robert Traynham. 

    FULL STORY AT Wharton →

  • Football hosts Brown Saturday in program’s 1400th game

    Nov. 2 marks Penn’s 1,400th collegiate football game—the first school at any NCAA level to play 1,4000 games. After two weeks on the road, the Red and Blue begin a two-game home stretch inside the Ivy League, searching to get back on track in the Ancient Eight with still half of the conference schedule ahead of them.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →

  • Testing HIV testers

    A team led by Penn Nursing’s José A. Bauermeister, Presidential Professor of Nursing, developed an innovative study that employs a mystery shopper methodology to assess HIV testing services for young men who have sex with men.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Cheryl LaFleur awarded 2019 Carnot Prize for her research into partisan politics in energy regulation

    Cheryl LaFleur, former commissioner with the U.S.’ top electricity and gas market regulator, researches the growing influence of partisan politics in energy regulation. On Oct. 24, LaFleur received the Carnot Prize for distinguished contributions to energy policy from the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy

    FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →

  • Reducing crime by changing places

    Residents in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood teamed up with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and created a revitalization effort called the Philadelphia LandCare program to clear out vacant lots of trash and debris and plant grass and trees in an effort to reduce illegal dumping and prevent crime. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn IUR →

  • NIH grant awarded to study traumatic brain injuries and neurodegeneration

    An international team of experts led by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine and University of Glasgow has been awarded a $9.7 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and National Institute for Aging to establish a program spanning 12 institutions to study traumatic brain injury and related neurodegenerative diseases. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Penn Law’s inaugural First Generation Fellows

    For students who are the first in their families to attend college or graduate school, the path can be overwhelming. Penn Law’s First Generation Professionals Fellowship aims to break down real and perceived barriers to ease students’ paths into law school and the legal profession.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →

  • Women’s basketball shares top spot in preseason Ivy poll

    The women's basketball team was picked to finish at the same level in the Ivy League that they finished last year: atop the conference. The Quakers earned 125 points in the preseason poll, matched by Princeton's 125, as the Ivy favorites. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →

  • The first Ivy champs

    Penn’s 1959 football team returned to campus for the Penn–Dartmouth football game on October 4 to celebrate a title that still seems improbable 60 years later.

    FULL STORY AT The Pennsylvania Gazette →