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Deans of health schools discuss climate change in their fields
Deans sit on Climate Week panel.

Kathy D. Morrison, faculty lead for the Environmental Innovations Initiative; Andrew M. Hoffman, dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine; Antonia M. Villarruel, dean of the School of Nursing; Farah Hussain, representing the dean of the Perelman School of Medicine; Sara S. Bachman, dean of School of Social Policy and Practice; Mark Wolff, dean of the School of Dental Medicine; and Julian Fisher, director of Oral and Planetary Health Policies in Penn Dental, sit onstage for a Climate Week discussion on climate and health.

(Image: Tommy Leonardi)

Deans of health schools discuss climate change in their fields

Deans and leaders from the schools of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Dental Medicine, Nursing, and Social Policy & Practice discussed climate and health at a Climate Week event.
Is ChatGPT a better entrepreneur than most?
A robot holding up a lightbulb.

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Is ChatGPT a better entrepreneur than most?

In a new experiment, Wharton’s Christian Terwiesch finds out if ChatGPT can outperform MBA students in coming up with new products.

From Knowledge at Wharton

Filmmaker Mira Nair’s approach to storytelling
A group of people cluster around Mira Nair at the Penn Museum with the Sphinx in the background.

Mira Nair speaks with students and lecture attendees after the event.

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Filmmaker Mira Nair’s approach to storytelling

As a Saluja Global Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, filmmaker Mira Nair gave a lecture at the Penn Museum on art, storytelling, and filmmaking.

Kristina García

Fellowship in South Korea offers language benefits, cultural reconnection
Penn undergrad Claire Jun gestures to the sign on the front of the building in Seoul, South Korea where she interned this summer.

Claire Jun poses in front of the building where she did a health policy internship in Seoul, South Korea, at the Research Institute at the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service.

(Image: Courtesy of Claire Jun)

Fellowship in South Korea offers language benefits, cultural reconnection

Third-year student Claire Jun used her FLAS fellowship this summer to participate in the study abroad program at Yonsei University and a health-policy internship at the National Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service.

Kristen de Groot

Quakers slay NJIT
Members of the volleyball team high five after a big play.

Image: Penn Athletics

Quakers slay NJIT

Boosted by 57 kills, volleyball team beat the Highlanders on Saturday in the Delaware State Tournament.
Who, What, Why: Catherine Sorrentino and a souvenir of historic Germantown
Catherine Sorrentino in front of College Hall

Catherine Sorrentino of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, spent her summer exploring the archives at Historic Germantown as part of the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program.

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Who, What, Why: Catherine Sorrentino and a souvenir of historic Germantown

During a summer internship, history major Catherine Sorrentino encountered a 108-year-old book with insights into Black Philadelphia.

Kristina García

Tracking parental leisure time and ‘intensive mothering’
Tyler, Paula, and Claudia posing at bottom of staircase.

From left: Tyler Trang, Paula Fomby, and Claudia Bellacosa.

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Tracking parental leisure time and ‘intensive mothering’

Paula Fomby, a professor of sociology in the School of Arts & Sciences, worked with a team of PURM students over the summer to analyze time-use data of parents from 1965 to 2019.