In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Amy Guillotte traveled to Gulu, Uganda four months after a doctor from Geneva Global addressed her International Education Development Program seminar class, and began a summer internship with the organization, implementing educational development programs for underserved students.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
Penn Engineering’s Ritesh Agarwal and Liang Feng, along with researchers from the City College of New York and Texas A&M University, will collaborate to to engineer proof-of-concept quantum circuits that incorporate two-dimensional quantum materials.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →
This summer, 18 athletes competed on 14 different teams from Vermont down through the Texas valleys. Numerous players reached their league’s respective all-star games and played against fellow college baseball players from a variety of conferences.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
The three projects spearheaded by Penn are led by Kevin Turner, Shu Yang, and Mark Yim and were each granted approximately $70,000. The Penn professors will be collaborating with Pennsylvania-based companies to innovate the printing industry, medical devices, and drug treatments.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →
Shaon Sengupta, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Penn and an attending neonatologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, spoke with Amita Sehgal about her work, which centers on the 24-hour rhythms that drive animal behavior. Like Sehgal, Sengupta is also interested in how chronobiology affects human health, and began her science education in India. Her interview is part of a yearlong online campaign highlighting #WomenofPenn.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Bryan Volpenhein, a three-time Olympian who stroked the United States to a gold medal in 2004, arrives at Penn with high-level experience as the United States National Team Coach, where he selected and trained the men's four for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and led three boats to gold medals during international competition.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel discusses whether the U.S. economy is facing an imminent recession, with the recent mix of deteriorating economic indicators pointing to a slowdown.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Wharton's Daniel Taylor discusses his research on why proposed SEC changes on small firm audits could lead to more accounting scandals.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Penn football returns on October 4, beginning a five-game home schedule that concludes with the season finale on November 23.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
Coming off an Ivy League regular season championship last season, the Quakers will host 12 games at The Palestra, with marquee matchups in the non-conference including a trip to ACC power Duke and a winter break jaunt to Hawaii for two games in The Aloha State.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
