In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
MBA student and extreme adventurer Deeya Bajaj grew up in Delhi and worked for her family’s adventure tourism business after graduation. Now at Wharton, her goal is to scale up her impact to bring empowerment and access for girls in adventure activities.
FULL STORY AT Wharton Stories →
LDI senior fellow Margo Brooks Carthon discusses her team’s expansion of the hospital post-discharge safety net program that grew out of their research. The original program originated from a 2018 pilot research grant from Penn LDI, Penn Medicine’s Center for Health Care Innovation, and Penn Nursing’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
CAREs awarded $5,000 to HopePHL as the Annual CAREs Community Champion and funded additional 27 employee-backed community initiatives. The Penn Medicine CAREs program supports a variety of community service efforts led by the people of Penn Medicine, including efforts to expand community access to medical care.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
People list homes at a premium to avoid selling a house for less than they bought it, thereby reducing market liquidity, according to research co-authored by Wharton’s Lu Liu.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
The new Master of Science in Nutrition Science program is designed to enhance the dentist’s ability to successfully address oral health issues with an eye toward nutrition-focused public heath.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
Brian Rosenwald, director of the Red and Blue Exchange at the SNF Paideia Program, moderated a panel of experts discussing the history of the Supreme Court, the creation of a conservative supermajority, the shadow docket, public opinion, and possible modifications to the structure of the Court including term limits and Court expansion.
FULL STORY AT Paideia Program →
This winter, a ceremony was held to unveil a historical marker from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission outside the Palestra, honoring the historical significance of Penn’s “Cathedral of College Basketball,” which was built in 1927.
FULL STORY AT Almanac →
Under new leadership with Penn Medicine’s Kit Delgado, the Nudge Unit focuses on designing slight pushes that help people make better, healthier, or just more-optimal decisions has helped increase exercise, improve prescription practices, and improve health screening rates.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Venture Lab, a collaboration between Penn Engineering, the Wharton School, and the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, hosts a Startup Challenge each year, which provides a comprehensive platform to help Penn student entrepreneurs and their teams develop and launch their businesses, and awards $300,000 to launch their ideas into reality.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Penn Medicine will allot portions of the grant to four other institutions to collectively create state-of-the-art online courses for genetic counselors. This grant will position genetic counselors to advance research for implementing genomic information into clinical practice.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
