In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Wharton Global Youth Program is preparing to launch its first Essentials of Innovation program for high school students. Wry, a management professor at Wharton, offers a sneak peek into the nuances of innovative thinking and how he designed the program.
FULL STORY AT Wharton Stories →
Penn Medicine unveiled a new digital art collaboration, #phillyheARTsyou, with five local and national artists—from Philadelphia to Los Angeles—that shows support and gratitude from the community for health care workers and their dedication during the COVID-19 pandemic.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
With the goal of diversity in mind, librarians launched the Latin American Research Resources Project, which initiated the Distributed Resources venture to allow libraries to set aside 7% of their annual budgets to devote to a particular subject area or format. The Penn Libraries focused its Latin American collecting on ethnohistory, folklore, migration, public health, and music sound recordings.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
The Penn junior is awarded a fully funded, four-week leadership program for students of color that is set in Ireland and focused on peace, social justice, and conflict resolution.
FULL STORY AT Penn Abroad →
While his country is in crisis, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is emerging as a masterful communicator and charismatic leader whose management style is reminiscent of some of the greatest statesmen in history, says Wharton’s Michael Useem.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School honors the legacy of Dr. Sadie Tanner Mossel Alexander, the first Black woman to graduate from the Law School, with the introduction of the inaugural class of Sadie Scholars: Kanyinsola Ajayi, Rheem Brooks, and Angel Reed.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
Members of CHIBE are co-leading an initiative to identify structural and institutional causes of health inequities and racism, transform those practices, and significantly improve health equity in Philadelphia. The initiative is called Accelerate Health Equity, and is led by Penn Medicine and Independence Blue Cross.
FULL STORY AT Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics →
In this course, students immerse themselves in strategy and storytelling to change the world. Over the semester, lecturers in Law Benjamin Jealous and Ariel Schwartz help them to create a plan to achieve their goal.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
In 2015, an environmental policy group discovered a massive fraud by Volkswagen: A line of “clean diesel” cars including popular Beetle, Golf, and Jetta models were instead excessively dirty—producing up to 150 times the pollutant levels of gasoline-powered models. Penn LDI senior fellow Diane Alexander calculated the excess pollution from the scam and the impact on infant and child health.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
The dissertation of M. Alice Bennett, the first woman to receive a degree from Penn, sheds light on her medical interests as a student at Penn’s School of Auxiliary Medicine before she began a career in psychiatry and women’s health care. This dissertation is fully catalogued and is available in Colenda, the Penn Libraries’ digital repository, for anyone to view.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
