In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Wharton’s David Wessels discusses Uber’s latest earnings report and business model, and argues that “in this particular case, it’s just bad news when the numbers are so low.”
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Seniors Colin Daly and Will Daly will captain the men's team while Maddie Villalba will serve as the leader of the women's squad as the program is set to open its 2019 season on Sept. 7 at the Fordham Fiasco, hosted at Van Cortlandt Park in The Bronx, N.Y.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
Leaders in BRCA research say the new screening recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force are a positive step forward, but testing of individuals with the highest risks must improve.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
An exciting new era beckons for the men’s squash program as the 2019-20 slate will coincide with a return to the newly renovated Penn Squash Center.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
Penn’s commitment to inclusion is especially evident at the Center for Africana Studies Summer Institute. For 33 years, the week-long program in July has given incoming freshmen a taste of the college experience before their first semester begins.
FULL STORY AT Power of Penn →
With the 19th Amendment’s centennial just a year away, Annenberg Classroom has released “The 19th Amendment: A Woman’s Right to Vote,” a video about women’s struggle to secure the right to vote and the amendment’s long journey to passage.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
Penn Dental Medicine welcomed the Class of 2023 DMD students to the study of dental medicine at its annual White Coat Ceremony, held August 12 at Penn’s Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
Amy Guillotte traveled to Gulu, Uganda four months after a doctor from Geneva Global addressed her International Education Development Program seminar class, and began a summer internship with the organization, implementing educational development programs for underserved students.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
Penn Engineering’s Ritesh Agarwal and Liang Feng, along with researchers from the City College of New York and Texas A&M University, will collaborate to to engineer proof-of-concept quantum circuits that incorporate two-dimensional quantum materials.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →
This summer, 18 athletes competed on 14 different teams from Vermont down through the Texas valleys. Numerous players reached their league’s respective all-star games and played against fellow college baseball players from a variety of conferences.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
