In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Supreme Court has ruled that online retailers must collect sales taxes even in states where they have no physical presence. Several experts analyze the decision and what it means for online shopping.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
A Leading by Design discussion with the designers about the creation and unveiling of the memorial, five years to the day since the collapse of the Salvation Army building that killed five people.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
A Wharton professor reveals his analysis of federal funding for a universal income, and grant programs to incentivize infrastructure upgrades, predicting the outcomes of public policy proposals.
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The sudden appearance of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, and other cryptocurrencies has triggered a wave of interest in privately issued monies.
FULL STORY AT Wharton →
With the rollback of certain Dodd-Frank finance regulations, Wharton finance professor Chaojun Wang examines how concentrated finance markets create too-big-to-fail banks.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
A new study in the journal Science found that methane emissions from the U.S. natural gas sector are about 60 percent higher than the Environmental Protection Agency's original estimate.
FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →
Ralph W. Muller, the CEO of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS), will step down in late June of 2019, after a 17-year tenure that helped establish Penn Medicine as one of the top medical centers in the country.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Under head coach Colleen Fink, the women's field hockey team will face a 17-game season against competitive non-conference and Ivy League teams.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
Recent philosophy, politics, and economics graduate Lina Qostal explores an alternate career option: professional tennis.
FULL STORY AT The Pennsylvania Gazette →
In an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Penn researchers call for modernizing the way Medicare pays for training nurses, and highlight a successful new model of cost-effectively training more advanced practice nurses to practice community-based primary care.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
