In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Wharton's Marshall Meyer and Minyuan Zhao, and Penn Law's Jacques deLisle discuss China's efforts to grow its population by offering tax benefits, housing and education subsidies, and longer paternity and maternity leave to lift birth rates.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Penn Baseball has been selected as one of the programs to receive the award, granted by the 2018 The American Baseball Coaches Association. The Team Academic Excellence Award recognizes teams that earn a GPA greater than 3.0 on a 4.0 scale for the 2017-18 season.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
The 2018 football has officially begun, with players taking to Franklin Field for photo shoots and practice, featuring a new uniform design, in preparation for the season opening game against Bucknell on September 15.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
Is universal basic income the solution to economic instability and inequality? That’s what the city of Stockton, CA plans to find out, with the support of local leadership, the Economic Security Project, income equality experts like Amy Castro Baker, and the residents of Stockton.
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
Wharton's Philip Nichols and Joao Gomes discuss the collapse of the Turkish lira in recent months, raising concern that the country’s financial troubles could spread to Europe and beyond.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
In a new paper, Wharton professors Ron Berman and Christophe Van den Bulte reveal that 57% of marketers are incorrectly crunching the data and potentially getting the wrong answer—and perhaps costing companies a lot of money.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Penn Praxis, the social impact design and community engagement consulting arm of PennDesign, has been working with the South Whitehall township to formulate a series of design ideas for improving its streetscapes and prominent public places.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
On August 13, the 134 students who comprise the Class of 2022, from 25 states and 7 foreign countries, participated in the annual tradition at Penn’s Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
On October 19, 2018, the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design will award its fourth annual Carnot Prize to the Honorable Shri Piyush Goyal, India’s former minister of power and renewables and current minister of railways and coal.
FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →
This summer, students from the high school are participating in a “reverse internship” at Penn GSE, giving their perspective about school and life to new students in Penn GSE’s Urban Teaching Apprentice Program.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
