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  • What do bots, climate change, and academic grants have in common? Doctoral student Douglas Guilbeault points to the importance of categories.

    Doctoral student Douglas Guilbeault studies how over the last several years, bots have been regularly making headlines, exposed for posing as ordinary people in an effort to meddle in elections, harass social media users, steal personal information, and influence public opinion on behalf of governments and corporations.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →

  • Penn extends its global reach to improve health care education and quality of care in Southeast Asia

    Penn Medicine and Penn Nursing are partnering with Vingroup, a collaboration between the nonprofit university project, VinUni, and private health service provider, Vinmec, to create new undergraduate and graduate medical training programs in Vietnam. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • In Q&A, Prof. Natasha Sarin discusses law, finance, and her arrival at Penn

    The newly appointed assistant law professor brings her specialty in the intersection of law and finance, with a focus on financial regulation, to both Penn Law and the finance department at the Wharton School. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →

  • Wrestling announces 2018-19 schedule

    A slate of 14 dual meets and three tournaments await the University of Pennsylvania wrestling team on the road to the EIWA Championships and the NCAA Championships as the 2018-19 schedule was announced.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →

  • Calm, cool, courageous: nursing and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

    To commemorate the centennial of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, the the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing is organizing a campaign, Calm Cool, and Courageous, to highlight the work and experiences of nurses during the pandemic.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Men's lacrosse introduces Class of 2022

    Head coach Mike Murphy has announced his recruiting class for the upcoming season, with thirteen young men are on campus joining the men's lacrosse program as freshmen.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →

  • APPC distinguished research fellow Danielle Bassett awarded Erdős-Rényi Prize

    The prize, awarded by the Network Science Society, honors the work of a scientist under the age of 40 for achievements in the field of network science.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →

  • Four policy changes that can rescue U.S. infrastructure

    Wharton's Howard Kunreuther, Jeffrey Czajkowski and Gina Tonn discuss a new issue brief from the Penn Wharton Public Policy Initiative, highlighting how policy changes, like adding private insurance to fill federal funding gaps, can improve infrastructure and reduce reliance on federal aid.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Three Penn Medicine gene therapy innovators receive international award for pioneering work to treat childhood blindness

    Jean Bennett, Samuel G. Jacobson, and Albert M. Maguire received the 2018 António Champalimaud Vision Award for their revolutionary work leading to the first successful gene therapy to cure an inherited cause of childhood blindness. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • How junk bond funds can be an early economic indicator

    Wharton's Itay Goldstein discusses his working paper, which links the business cycle to credit markets, and the use of junk bonds to predict the business cycle earlier than other indicators.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →