In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Only 1% of venture capital funds go to women of color each year. As a WISE Fellow, Chanelle Lansley is working to change that statistic for the better.
FULL STORY AT Wharton →
“Creating an Effective Child Welfare System” is a massive open online course that helps social workers, policymakers, politicians, attorneys, and judges examining and assessing the child welfare system and its policies.
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
In this role, Marion Leary will design and execute innovation programs and projects through Penn Nursing’s Office of Nursing Research.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
A study published in Jama Network Open finds that payment for research participation invites deception and lying about eligibility, regardless of the amount of money offered.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Gerald Campano, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, and Amy Stornaiuolo, the new editors of Research in the Teaching of English, a storied journal in the field published by the National Council of Teachers of English, are expanding the voices and vision of the journal outside the traditional margins.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
Annenberg Public Policy Center Director Kathleen Hall Jamieson‘s book “Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President,” received the PROSE Award in the subject category Government, Policy and Politics, part of the Social Sciences.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
Network neuroscientist, Danielle Bassett, Eduardo D. Glandt Faculty Fellow and associate professor in the Department Bioengineering, brings together mathematics, physics, electrical engineering and developmental biology to understand how the brain’s connections form and change.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →
Wharton's John Paul on what lies ahead for the auto industry, as concerns loom about the strength of various economies—the U.S. and China in particular.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Federal laws and regulations do not appropriately restrict the advertising of e-cigarettes to youth, and child-friendly flavors are available and marketed specifically for kids, creating the misconception among teens that e-cigarettes are less dangerous than other tobacco products.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
At the second annual Behavioral Insights from Text Conference at Wharton, academics from various disciplines came together to share their research on text analysis using natural language processing and related tools.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
