In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Wharton Stories showcases three undergraduate students who found their footing in community here at the School: Winni Zhang, Thomas Kyong, and Sahiba Baveja.
FULL STORY AT Wharton Stories →
A new study of professional working mothers in Sweden finds that many turn to entrepreneurship after encountering the “motherhood penalty” at work. Wharton’s Tiantian Yang explains why her latest research challenges long-held assumptions about hard-working moms.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
The Eduardo D. Glandt Faculty Fellow and associate professor in the Departments of Electrical and Systems Engineering and Computer and Information Science has received the award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for her foundational contributions to innovative memory and memory-driven computing.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Penn Libraries compiles a list each year to help patrons delve into different individual experiences and stories that celebrate, and shed light on, different AAPI cultures and perspectives.
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Wharton’s Barbara Kahn analyzes the downfall of Bed Bath & Beyond, which went from dominating the housewares market to filing for bankruptcy.
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A new study by LDI fellows Polina Krass and Sarah Wood, and pediatric emergency medicine fellow Erin H. Sieke, and colleagues discovered in a national survey that only a small percentage of residents were comfortable with inserting contraceptive implants and implanting IUDs. The findings indicate that comprehensive training on adolescent sexual and reproductive health requires buy-in at the institutional level. Residency training programs and hospital leadership need to carve out time for residents to learn how to provide full-spectrum contraceptive services.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Penn Engineering’s Senior Design project winners have been announced, following a yearlong effort by fourth-year students to test and develop solutions to real-world problems. The top three projects from each department will compete in the annual Senior Design Competition, sponsored by the Engineering Alumni Society. Each winning team received a $2,000 prize.
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Researchers at the School of Engineering and Applied Science have created a novel photonic device that provides programmable on-chip information processing without lithography, offering the speed of photonics augmented by superior accuracy and flexibility for AI applications.
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The Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry (CiPD) and Penn Health-Tech have awarded their second annual IDEA (Innovation in Dental Medicine and Engineering to Advance Oral Health) Prize to Kyle Vining, assistant professor of preventive and restorative sciences at Penn Dental Medicine, who also has a joint appointment at Penn Engineering, and Michael Mitchell, associate professor of bioengineering at Penn Engineering.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
Cindy Sanders, president and CEO of OLIN and an adjunct professor of landscape architecture also teaches in the Weitzman School’s new Executive Program in Design Leadership. She discusses the shift in the culture of leadership from a transactional approach—one that is rooted in power dynamics and whose primary consideration is the bottom line and profitability at all costs.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
