In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Tooting your own horn at work is important, but including others in your symphony of accomplishments will make you more likeable, according to new research from Wharton’s Maurice Schweitzer.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
The Fellowship award extends the professor in Materials Science and Engineering and Electrical and Systems Engineering’s 2021 award on Programmable Lithography-Free Integrated Photonics for Signal Control and Networking for an additional year.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
A Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics September 29 conference, “Methods Matter: Understanding and Measuring Race and Racism in Health Research,” addressed the question of whether the U.S. scientific community is using inadequate methods to measure and address racism in health care.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
This year, the Penn Libraries began subscribing to Newspapers.com and NewspaperARCHIVE.com, which together provide over 450 million pages of historical newspapers, and are accessible using a PennKey.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
Unlocked Labs, a venture that empowers and employs justice-impacted individuals to design and build technology that promotes human flourishing and enables decarceration, won the grand prize at the 14th annual Milken–Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition. Skizaa, a venture that helps education leaders make real-time data-driven decisions by collecting and analyzing data from rural schools in Sub-Saharan Africa, won the Cognitive Inc. Prize.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
Lazard, a 2019 graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program at the Weitzman School of Design, has received a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship, widely known as a “genius grant.”
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
Carley is the co-director of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and the Presidential Distinguished Professor of Energy Policy and City Planning at the university’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design, with a secondary appointment in the Wharton School. She joins more than 30 RFF university fellows that hold positions at well-regarded institutions around the world.
FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →
The Wharton marketing professor helped create the rankings list, which measures global perceptions about 87 nations with the highest GDP.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Partnering with the Annenberg Public Policy Center, the Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Engagement hosted two summer teacher programs designed to equip educators with the tools necessary to teach the U.S. Constitution to the next generation of informed Americans.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
The new gift will establish funds for the study of Jewish history and culture in the land of Israel, and for the study of antisemitism.
FULL STORY AT Herbert D. Katz Center →
