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  • Swim teams honored for academics by CSCAA

    Both the men's and women's swimming and diving teams received the College Swimming Coaches Association of America Scholar All-America Team recognition for the 2018 spring semester.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics

  • Penn Law graduate Kalpana Kotagal discusses Hollywood’s ‘inclusion rider’

    The contract provision that Hollywood players can use to negotiate for more diverse and inclusive hiring was developed by Stacy Smith from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and drafted with Kotagal, who discussed the contract with Penn Law.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law

  • New Martin and Julie Franklin squash courts

    The renovation of the Ringe Squash Center is underway. Renamed the Martin and Julie Franklin Squash Courts, the renovation is scheduled to begin on August 1 and is expected to be completed in time for the 2019 fall semester.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics

  • Ten named Academic All-Ivy for 2018 spring season

    The Ivy League has announced its Academic All-Ivy selections for the 2017-18 spring season. Each season, 10 student-athletes from each Ancient Eight school—five men, five women—are selected Academic All-Ivy.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics

  • Pro-Tobacco Videos on YouTube Sway Young Adults on E-Cigarettes and Hookahs

    Misleading pro-tobacco videos on YouTube that promote e-cigarettes and hookahs can make young adults feel more positively about these products, according to new research.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center

  • Eight members of heavyweight and lightweight crew earn IRA All-Academic honors

    To be eligible for the award, the student-athletes have maintained a cumulative GPA of 3.35 or higher, completed one full academic year, be an institutional letter winner, and competed at the 2018 IRA National Championship Regatta. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics

  • Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists celebrates 50 years

    For five decades, the seminars have provided journalists with a better understanding of key business issues. 

    FULL STORY AT Wharton

  • This Sachs award-winning undergrad is exploring new ways to experience art and music

    Sachs Program grant-winner Saif Khawaja wants to engage engineers and artists alike to experiment with electroluminescent artwork.

    FULL STORY AT Wharton

  • Mitesh Patel delivers his Alice Hersh Award acceptance speech

    The 2018 winner of the AcademyHealth Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award is a senior fellow at Penn's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics who focuses on behavioral economics, and the intersection of humans and digital technologies.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute

  • Litty Paxton to become Annenberg’s associate dean for undergraduate studies

    Paxton, who has been director of Penn Women’s Center since 2008, will become Annenberg’s new associate dean for undergraduate studies starting on August 13.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication