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  • Winners announced for 2023 Milken–Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition

    Unlocked Labs, a venture that empowers and employs justice-impacted individuals to design and build technology that promotes human flourishing and enables decarceration, won the grand prize at the 14th annual Milken–Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition. Skizaa, a venture that helps education leaders make real-time data-driven decisions by collecting and analyzing data from rural schools in Sub-Saharan Africa, won the Cognitive Inc. Prize.

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →

  • Artist and alum Carolyn Lazard awarded MacArthur Genius Grant

    Lazard, a 2019 graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program at the Weitzman School of Design, has received a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship, widely known as a “genius grant.”

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • David Reibstein unveils his annual ‘Best Countries’ list

    The Wharton marketing professor helped create the rankings list, which measures global perceptions about 87 nations with the highest GDP.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Sanya Carley named Resources for the Future Fellow

    Carley is the co-director of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and the Presidential Distinguished Professor of Energy Policy and City Planning at the university’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design, with a secondary appointment in the Wharton School. She joins more than 30 RFF university fellows that hold positions at well-regarded institutions around the world.

    FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →

  • Teachers gain understanding of the Supreme Court at Rendell Center Programs

    Partnering with the Annenberg Public Policy Center, the Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Engagement hosted two summer teacher programs designed to equip educators with the tools necessary to teach the U.S. Constitution to the next generation of informed Americans.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →

  • A gift from the Goldhirsh-Yellin Foundation

    The new gift will establish funds for the study of Jewish history and culture in the land of Israel, and for the study of antisemitism.

    FULL STORY AT Herbert D. Katz Center →

  • Harold W. McGraw Jr. Prize in Education winners announced

    Debra Duardo, David Wilson, and Barbara Oakley are selected for outstanding achievement in pre-K–12, higher education, and lifelong learning.

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →

  • 24K Philadelphia addresses to receive survey from Philadelphia Economic Equity Project

    The survey is designed to explore the economic and social challenges that Philadelphians face and to identify ways in which Philadelphians are economically mobile. The PEEP initiative is part of the Center for Public Service & Policy led by former Mayor of Philadelphia Michael A. Nutter at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice.

    FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →

  • Integrating the transitional care model into nurse practitioner curricula to improve outcomes for high-risk older adults

    Managing transitions in care for older adults and their family caregivers, no matter the care setting, is especially challenging in a rapidly changing health care system. Patient discharges which typically require prescription writing, discharge summary creation, and team consultations for home care entail more complex coordination and planning.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Care for all patients improves when doctors take race into account

    In a new study, LDI senior fellow Atheendar Venkataramani unpacks the use of measures of race in clinical prediction models and provide a useful framework to focus ongoing debates.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →