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  • Arguing their case at the Third Circuit

    Four Penn law students head to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to argue an amicus brief, thanks to an externship sponsored by the Dechert LLP law firm. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →

  • World Immunization Week 2018

    A look at diseases vaccinations have eliminated, the potential for future vaccines, how populations in modern history have responded to vaccine access, and which researchers at Penn are on the forefront of vaccine development.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • A tiny technological transfer

    In order to expand the research capabilities of medicine, chemistry and other scientific fields, the Center for Targeted Therapeutics and Translational Nanomedicine has created the Chemical and Nanoparticle Synthesis Core, which will fashion research components with the dimensions and precision only a nanotech expert can provide.   

    FULL STORY AT Penn One Health →

  • 2018 Jacobson Global Venture Award recipients announced

    Three Wharton-Lauder students are the recipients of the 2018 Jacobson Global Venture Award. The $10k  cash award allows students to spend the summer concentrating on their entrepreneurial development in lieu of a summer internship. The students' projects concentrate on the sustainable diamond trade, an auto insurance brokerage for underserved populations, and a traumatic injury detection system venture owned and operated by military veterans.

    FULL STORY AT Wharton →

  • Speaking the language of medicine

    Crist Beiler, a registered ER nurse at Lancaster General Hospital, is one of only two medical interpreters fluent in Pennsylvania Dutch for the Amish community of Lancaster County.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Getting the gold for sustainability

    Penn received a Gold Rating for its 2017 submission of the STARS survey for the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. The STARS survey is a comprehensive benchmarking system and is used by more than 800 colleges and universities on six continents to evaluate their environmental performance.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Sustainability →

  • What Wharton faculty would have asked Mark Zuckerberg

    Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg endured hours of grilling from two Congressional committees to answer questions on why his company did not do a better job protecting user data. But many lawmakers struggled with technical terms or did not know how aspects of Facebook worked. What would have been some better lines of questioning? Wharton professors weigh in.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Comm major by day, Instagram influencer by night

    When best friends and then-high school sophomores Bevan Cohen and Sabrina Epstein started snapping photos of their lunches around New York City, it seemed like fun to post them to Instagram. They had no idea they were on the road to becoming full-fledged influencers.But 3,700 photos and 313,000 followers later, @eastcoastfoodies has become a trademarked brand.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →

  • Autonomous car crashes: who — or what — is to blame?

    Recent fatalities involving driverless cars have Wharton professors analyzing what may be just the beginning of safety testing, and inevitable accidents, from emerging autonomous vehicle technology. 

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • DPS Spring Commendation Ceremony honors officers and partners in safety

    In conjunction with the Undergraduate Assembly and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, the Division of Public Safety recognized outstanding personnel from organizations across the city that serve as its partners in safety, along with members of the Penn community, during its Spring Commendation Ceremony, Wednesday, April 4 at Clair M. Fagin Hall.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Division of Public Safety →