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  • Can employees change the ethics of tech firms?

    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 →

  • Undergrads make meaning out of memes

    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 →

  • Penn Law holds its second annual Veterans Week

    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 →

  • SP2 alumnus receives Lifetime Achievement Award, offers advice to future change agents

    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 →

  • Another one! Men's squash defeats Drexel to win second consecutive Pennsylvania State Classic

    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 →

  • Annenberg alumni make the calls on election night

    On election night 2018, five Annenberg alumni were behind the scenes at ABC and CBS, helping to make sense of a mind-boggling quantity of precinct-level returns and exit polling.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →

  • Villalba, Russo and Webb qualify for NCAA Nationals

    For the first time in program history, three runners —Maddie Villalba, Anthony Russo and Sam Webb—from the men's and women's cross country teams qualified for the NCAA National Championships by finishing in the top four of non-automatically qualified runners.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →

  • Yelp reviews reveal strengths and weaknesses of emergency departments and urgent care clinics

    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 →

  • Penn engineers discover new cellular ‘elevator’ that’s controlled by light

    In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found that when a natural photoreceptor protein is exposed to light, it moves itself from the inside of the cell to the surface, like a molecular “elevator,” by directly binding to the cell’s membrane.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →

  • Why do we eat soup when we have a cold?

    Melissa Bailey, a clinical dietician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania believes there is no “one size fits all” approach to diet, but says there is real scientific evidence backing the merits of soup—especially for those with a cold.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →