In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
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 →
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 →
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 →
TheLeonard Davis Institute of Health Economics has awarded twelve 2019 small grants to teams led by LDI Senior and Associate Fellows engaged in health services research.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Wharton marketing professor John McCoy discusses his research on a better way to crowdsource ideas, and proposes a new solution for crowdsourcing that can help create better, more accurate results.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Penn Law professor Allison Hoffman explains the current legal challenges to various provisions of the ACA, and the embattled health care legislation’s future prospects.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
Steven Mills and Greta Wiessner ere named the winners of this year’s Edwin R. Keedy Cup, Penn Law’s internal moot court competition, and Wiessner was named Best Oralist.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
Current Ph.D. candidates Shoshana Aronowitz and Amanda Bettencourt will be part of a program that works to cultivate health equity, eliminate health disparities, and achieve higher quality health care at lower cost by training nurse and physician researchers who work as leaders and collaborators embedded in communities, healthcare systems, government, and foundations in the United States and around the world.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Students in the School of Design can take the tools of design to make things better for people and, through a collaboration with Perry World House, apply these ideas to real life, to understand the approaches, the strategies in creating policy.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
