In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Wall Street Journal’s docu-series “Moving Upstream” takes a closer look at disruptive technologies that are changing the way we live, work and communicate, from gene editing to cryptocurrencies, and the deceptive videos known as “Deepfakes.”
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →
The Director of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics, M. Grace Calhoun, has announced 15 men and women who will comprise the Penn Athletics Hall of Fame Class XI. This class will be inducted on Saturday, May 4, 2019.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
Penn Nursing’s Terri Lipman was on hand in Harrison to urge lawmakers to pass Pennsylvania Senate Resolution 484, which recognizes November 2018 as National Diabetes Month in the Keystone State.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
A new Penn Medicine study, published today in Obesity, the journal of the Obesity Society, finds intensive behavioral therapy, which provides diet and physical activity counseling, is proven to help adults with obesity achieve meaningful weight loss in six to 12 months.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Under the instruction of Annenberg lecturer and postdoctoral fellow Samira Rajabi, undergraduate students in Memes, Media, and Meaning are diving into the world of memes to answer this question: What does this online cultural phenomenon reveal about our understanding of the world?
FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →
Wharton's Julian Jonker discusses employee activism at technology firms: “These companies are not just vying for people who are able to engage with these technologies. They are searching for the best and the most creative. And the most creative engineers are ones who also are really going to care about these issues, and who are going to want some measure of autonomy and some degree of participation in decision-making.”
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Beginning on November 12, Penn Law will observe its second annual Veterans Week, a week of programming to engage and inform the Law School community about the experiences of veterans in the legal profession, and to honor veterans for their service.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
Bob Schoenberg, a double alumnus from Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2), was recently honored with the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Association of Social Workers Pennsylvania Chapter.
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
For the second consecutive year, the men's squash team defeated No. 11 Drexel in the final of the Pennsylvania State Classic, 8-1, to win the title, defeating Franklin & Marshall and Drexel by a combined, 17-1, score.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
Yelp reviews reveal that emergency departments are viewed as being higher quality but lacking in service as compared to urgent care centers, which patients rate the opposite, according to a new study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
