In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
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.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
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 →
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 →
Wharton finance professor Robert Inman makes a compelling argument for why government officials need to make infrastructure a priority.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
The Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety is utilizing prolonged exposure therapy for anxiety disorders and trauma that sexual abuse survivors experience, linking PTSD with sexual trauma, not just war trauma.
FULL STORY AT The Pennsylvania Gazette →
As mobile ads become the dominant advertising medium, the General Data Protection Regulation recently went into effect, giving consumers more control over how companies handle their personal data.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
