In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
This fall, thirty Lancaster General Health employees, including nurses, cardiologists, technicians, and a sports medicine physician, worked with staff and pediatric cardiologists from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to provide free heart screenings for more than 125 students ages 12-19.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Bionengineering’s Dan Huh and his BIOLines research group were awarded the 2018 Lush Science Prize for work on organ-on-a-chip devices. The cosmetic company’s prize is designed to encourage work on alternatives to animal testing.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →
Wharton's Serguei Netessine discusses his research on the effectiveness of charitable promotions.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Firooz Aflatouni has been awarded a NASA Early Stage Innovations grant to design and implement arrays of optical antennas that can enable laser communication in near-Earth satellites.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →
Aminata Sy has been named to the 2019 class of Charles B. Rangel Graduate Fellows, which supports winners through two years of graduate school as well as entry into the Foreign Service corps.
FULL STORY AT Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships →
An interdisciplinary team from MIT, Wharton and Boston College has created a new blockchain-based system that has the potential to disrupt the global supply chain.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Social scientists and psychologists have long attempted to develop strategies for intergroup conflicts, with limited success. A new paper from Boaz Hameiri offers a solution he calls paradoxical thinking, intended to shock the participants with its absurdity and cause them to reevaluate their beliefs.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →
The National Field Hockey Coaches Association announced its 2018 All-Region teams, with Paige Meily and Alexa Schneck representing Penn in the Mid-Atlantic region.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
The finalists in Penn’s seventh annual Y-Prize Competition proposed a diverse slates of applications, but share the same roll-to-roll surface wrinkle printing technology, developed through a collaboration among several labs at the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
FULL STORY AT Wharton →
In “Addressing Personal-Income-Tax Manipulation with Tools from Psychology,” Alex Rees-Jones, a Wharton professor of operations, information and decisions, advocates for the government to use psychological tools to maximize tax collection by tapping into what he called a taxpayer’s “gain/loss framing.”
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
