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  • Minding other people’s business

    Penn LPS students win case competition at the sixth annual Wharton People Analytics Conference.

    FULL STORY AT OMNIA →

  • Raina Merchant named National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader

    The founding director of Penn Medicine’s Center for Digital Health was selected for a three-year term beginning in July.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Penn Medicine's Volpp, Venkataramani and Kangovi win SGIM Awards

    Three Penn Medicine faculty research scientists and LDI Senior Fellows—Kevin Volpp, Atheendar Venkataramani, and Shreya Kangovi—were honored with awards at the Society of General Internal Medicine's annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Documentary to highlight Laurie Olin and his social vision

    Olin, one of the most renowned landscape architects practicing today, is the focus of Sitting Still, a new documentary in production for release next year.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • Are fewer physicians and self-service health care the answer?

    Citing the strategies other industries successfully used to reign in skyrocketing costs while maintaining product availability and quality, Penn health care innovation expert David Asch writes that real health care change requires the removal of the field's “choke point”—the physician-patient gateway to care.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Simmons co-authors article demonstrating how countries self-reporting treaty compliance can enhance women’s rights

    Penn Law professor Beth Simmons’ article, “The Dynamic Impact of Periodic Review on Women’s Rights,” appears in a recent issue of the Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems and challenges the conventional wisdom that the process of self-reporting on compliance with human rights treaties serves no useful purpose.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →

  • Penn Vet and the Wharton School launching new veterinary entrepreneurship program

    The executive education program allows veterinarians to build entrepreneurial skills to have impact on public health, environmental sustainability, human and animal well-being.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Vet →

  • Penn IUR and Penn Design launch lab on urban informality and sustainable development

    The project that consolidates and supports efforts that explore the way informality is shaping sustainable urban development. The Lab considers multiple interpretations of informality: a form of marginalization from formal society, a semi-integration into formal society, or a rational form of survival within state-sanctioned institutional arrangements.

    FULL STORY AT Penn IUR →

  • Penn Law expert on the past, present, and future of the U.S.-China relationship

    Penn Law’s Jacques deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies is an expert on Chinese law and politics, and China’s engagement with the international order. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →

  • Penn Law professor argues for centering Indian law in US constitutional framework

    In an article for the Harvard Review, Penn Law Professor Maggie Blackhawk (Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe), argues for a paradigm shift in American constitutional law that would place Native Americans, federal Indian law, and American colonialism at the center of how lawyers and the public understand our constitutional framework.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →