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  • Winners announced for Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition for ventures

    Penn GSE and the Milken Family Foundation have announced the winners of the Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition. Cash prizes totaling more than $100,000 were awarded to winning ventures aiming to improve teacher professional development, offer new paths for autism treatment, and create a new immersive experience for students to learn American Sign Language.

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  • President Gutmann, Dr. Jill Biden, Wes Moore help launch Extraordinary Impact: The Campaign for Penn GSE

    The University president, former Second Lady, Graduate School of Education dean, and author and social entrepreneur launched a University-wide campaign to further the success and vision for the school.

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  • Brothers in advocacy

    The Wharton 22s is an initiative to promote gender parity by encouraging awareness, dialogue, and action by men within the Wharton community. Founded in 2015 as an affiliate of Wharton Women in Business, and with a name that calls attention to the gender pay gap, the 22s organization now has hundreds of members.

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  • Penn Law team wins Williams Institute Moot Court Competition

    The three students competed against 34 teams in the 14th annual moot court competition that focuses on LGBT legal issues.

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  • Teaching awards presented in education and nursing

    A list of awards won for excellence in teaching at the Graduate School of Education and the School of Nursing.

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  • Three chirps for iDesign winners

    Three graduate students won both people's choice and official jury iDesign Prize for Chipper, a new pet food business venture. One unlikely protein source is the key factor for a reduced footprint on land and water resources, introducing a sustainable and ecologically-conscious product to the pet food market. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Design Weekly →

  • Arguing their case at the Third Circuit

    Four Penn law students head to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to argue an amicus brief, thanks to an externship sponsored by the Dechert LLP law firm. 

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  • 2018 Jacobson Global Venture Award recipients announced

    Three Wharton-Lauder students are the recipients of the 2018 Jacobson Global Venture Award. The $10k  cash award allows students to spend the summer concentrating on their entrepreneurial development in lieu of a summer internship. The students' projects concentrate on the sustainable diamond trade, an auto insurance brokerage for underserved populations, and a traumatic injury detection system venture owned and operated by military veterans.

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  • What Wharton faculty would have asked Mark Zuckerberg

    Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg endured hours of grilling from two Congressional committees to answer questions on why his company did not do a better job protecting user data. But many lawmakers struggled with technical terms or did not know how aspects of Facebook worked. What would have been some better lines of questioning? Wharton professors weigh in.

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  • Autonomous car crashes: who — or what — is to blame?

    Recent fatalities involving driverless cars have Wharton professors analyzing what may be just the beginning of safety testing, and inevitable accidents, from emerging autonomous vehicle technology. 

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