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  • Pamela Cacchione named a 2018-2019 Penn Nursing Innovation Fellow

    The Ralston House Endowed Term Chair in Gerontological Nursing and a Nurse Scientist at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center is skilled in collaboration and innovation to enhance health care, especially in aging populations.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Where immigrants go, economic growth follows

    A new brief by Wharton's Exequiel Hernandez suggests that the value of immigrants, in economic terms, should not be measured in jobs and wages alone, but firms should recognize capital investment, innovation, and their presence in a community as positive factors for growth.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • Men's basketball announces 2018-19 schedule

     In the fourth season under head coach Steve Donahue, the Quakers will play a 30-game schedule that includes 14 contests at The Palestra.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics

  • Can China recharge its population growth?

    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

  • New uniforms, team photo day, first practices highlight opening weekend for football

    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

  • Stockton, CA puts guaranteed income to test, Penn SP2 researcher will evaluate implications

    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

  • Penn baseball receives ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award

    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

  • How can Turkey overcome its economic troubles?

    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

  • What marketers are doing wrong in data analytics

    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

  • South Whitehall Design project fosters student and community engagement

    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