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  • Do accelerators improve startup success rates?

    Accelerator programs boost startup performance across the board, but maximizing that success depends on program design, Wharton research shows.

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  • How financial frictions hinder innovation

    A recent study co-authored by Wharton’s Thomas Winberry reveals that financially constrained firms face a trade-off between investing in existing ideas and pursuing new ones.

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  • Eduardo Carrera receives 2024 Curatorial Research Fellowship from Independent Curators International

    Carrera’s research explores LGBTQ+ BIPOC representation and resistance in queer photography from the southern United States.

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  • Penn Medicine and Union partner for community fridge to fight hunger

    The community refrigerator and accompanying pantry contributes to ongoing efforts to address food insecurity at the Boys & Girls Club of Chester.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Incoming Katz Center fellows

    Penn’s Herbert D. Katz Center For Advanced Judaic Studies has announced the incoming cohort of international fellows for the 2024–25 fellowship year devoted to new research at the intersection of Jewish studies and medicine, broadly conceived.

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  • Disability rights photography by Harvey Finkle featured for second annual Art @ SP2 Exhibit

    The images lining the lobby walls and rotating on a screen in SP2’s Caster building are the work of celebrated social justice photographer and SP2 alumnus Harvey Finkle, selections from “Faces of Independence: Liberty Resources 30th Anniversary Project.”

    FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →

  • Celebrating 70 years of water fluoridation in Philadelphia

    On May 1, Penn Dental Medicine and PA Coalition for Oral Health co-hosted a special event celebrating 70 years of community water fluoridation in Philadelphia and promoting water fluoridation as an essential public health measure.

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  • New, national leadership role for Penn Nursing professor is a first

    Penn Nursing’s Sharon Y. Irving is the first nurse, nurse practitioner, and woman of African-American heritage to be elected vice president of ASPEN, the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • A new chapter for a 16th century codex

    Tessa Gadomski in the Steven Miller Conservation Laboratory was tasked with stabilizing the Ms. Codex 1950, a fragile book of handwritten Persian poetry. Its catalog entry lists its publication date as between 1474 and 1650; the codex itself is dated 1474.

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  • Robin Pemantle elected to the National Academy of Sciences

    Math professor Robin Pemantle has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, joining 143 others elected in 2024.

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