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  • Art history in 3-D

    Robyn Barrow, doctoral candidate in history of art who specializes in Medieval and Byzantine art, worked with the Price Lab to create a 3-D model of a post-Byzantine boxwood cross stand.

    FULL STORY AT OMNIA →

  • The Sachs Program 2018/2019 grant opportunities

    Numerous grants will be awarded to fund student work, teachers, artists, curators and community engagers. 

    FULL STORY AT Sachs Program for Arts Innovation →

  • Music, ethnicity, and the legacy of war in Sri Lanka

    An intense interest in drumming led Jim Sykes, Assistant Professor of Music, to study how music connects Sri Lankan populations typically defined by ethnic difference.

    FULL STORY AT OMNIA →

  • APPC postdoc Matt Motta honored with Elsevier Atlas award

    Postdoctoral fellow Matt Motta was honored with the Elsevier Atlas award for his article “Knowing less but presuming more: Dunning-Kruger effects and the endorsement of anti-vaccine policy attitudes,” published in August 2018 in the journal Social Science & Medicine.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →

  • New universal standard set for feeding tube placement

    The best practice recommendations related to feeding tube location verification in pediatric patients are now available online as a special report in the journal Nutrition in Clinical Practice. Penn Nursing’s Sharon Y. Irving is the lead author on these recommendations.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Report from the first national 'Nudge Units in Health Care' symposium

    In the wake of two years of often dramatic successes, the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit and its collaborative partners gathered with top level executives from 22 health systems from across the U.S. and Canada gathered for the historic conclave.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Managing the coming tsunami of genomic and cellular therapy costs

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb was the keynote speaker at Penn’s “Cost of a Cure" conference on precision medicine, where he announced two new draft guidelines for clinical trial protocols.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Antitrust in 2018: The meaning of consumer welfare now

    The market dominance of American technology firms is giving rise to a call for antitrust intervention that is slowly but surely gaining momentum.

    FULL STORY AT Wharton Public Policy Initiative →

  • Penn Law welcomes Sherrilyn Ifill as Honorary Fellow during Public Interest Week

    The civil rights lawyer is a featured speaker at the 11th Annual Public Interest Week, bringing together students, public interest lawyers, policymakers, and scholars for a variety of panels addressing the theme of “Justice for All.” 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →

  • The downside of applying lean startup principles

    Wharton's Andrea Contigiani discusses his research on lean startup principles.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →