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Feelings of shame are so overwhelmingly negative that they act as a positive force for setting social norms and behavior. In her latest research, Wharton’s Rebecca Schaumberg explains why managers should pay closer attention to shame.
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It is no simple task to represent the entirety of the Penn Libraries film collections under the rubric African cinema. The Penn Libraries has been collecting film and media from around the world for decades, including films by African directors and about Africa.
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Penn Libraries details how courts make and interpret law, and what it means for copyright.
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At Penn, less than 1% of the student body identifies as Native American, but in the diverse schools and through Natives at Penn, Native students have forged a close-knit community. Wharton Stories speaks with Ryly Ziese, a finance concentrator and member of the Cherokee Nation, and Lauren McDonald, a finance and business analytics concentrator and member of the Onondaga Nation.
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The senior adjunct professor of Global Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School was elected in June to the United Nations Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) for the term 2023-2026. Adopted by the United Nations in 1979, CEDAW is the most important human rights treaty for women.
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The Penn Transplant Institute’s new Center will expand care for living donors, helping to maximize the number of lives saved through liver and kidney transplantation.
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A $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will help fund research to study how placenta keep harmful substances away from developing babies while still providing proper nutrition. Research will include how transporter proteins carrying nutrients, dietary supplements, medications and toxic chemicals work during pregnancies, how individual placenta cells respond to various stimuli in the laboratory, and how environmental factors influence placental transporters during healthy and unhealthy or complicated pregnancies.
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The newly-digitized archive of Ed Ruscha's landmark series of Los Angeles photographs examines changes along Sunset Boulevard from 1966 to 2007.
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The goal of the online MS in Nutrition Science is to increase the nutrition science knowledge of students as a strategy to improve public health with improved health promotion and nutrition associated disease management in the U.S. and globally.
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