In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
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 →
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 →
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 →
PennDesign has appointed Ralph Lemon, a choreographer, writer, visual artist, and curator, the Keith L. and Kathy Sachs Visiting Professor in the Department of Fine Arts for the 2018-2019 Academic Year.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
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 →
