In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
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.
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Nonprofits and charitable organizations can increase contributions simply by offering multiple-choice options that signal to potential donors what is appropriate to give. Wharton’s Alice Moon shares the results of her latest study.
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Grocery delivery workers were hailed as heroes during the pandemic, but not every gig worker considered themselves worthy. New research from Wharton’s Lindsey Cameron explores the business consequences of becoming an overnight hero.
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Research from Wharton’s Hummy Song suggests a new strategy for staffing high-performing work teams by focusing on the relationships among members and not just their skills.
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In an episode of her podcast series, “Leading Diversity at Work,” Wharton dean Erika James speaks with Lori Tauber Marcus, a Wharton graduate, corporate board member, and executive coach, and David Rivera, a professor of counselor education at Queens College-City University of New York, whose research focuses on cultural competency development, the effect of discrimination on the well-being of people from underrepresented groups, and microaggressions.
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The Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice has released recommendations based on a Sentinel Event Review of the Seattle PD’s response to protests in 2020.
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The The Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness Early Career Awards highlight researchers whose work is both rigorous and relevant to educational practice. Bowden, an assistant professor of education policy at Penn GSE, focuses on strategies to overcome obstacles like hunger, housing insecurity, and mental health problems that prevent children from getting the most out of school.
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The nonprofit organization dedicated to the professional and educational advancement of Latinos in the legal profession awarded the two co-presidents of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Latinx Law Student Association, Chiara Padilla and Michael Asparrin with scholarships.
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The Wharton Latin American Student Association (WHALASA) is one of Wharton’s largest international student clubs, and for 40 years it has hosted cultural events, parties, travel opportunities, and career resources for MBA students from Latin America.
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The Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy is awarded for outstanding contributions to law and philosophy and to their practical applications in medicine, science, and public affairs.
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