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News・ Education, Business, & Law
From Super Bowl champion to championing mental health
Brandon Brooks retired from the NFL in January 2022. He is now at Wharton, pursuing a “major passion for increasing financial literacy in my community.”
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Does the Middle East still matter?
Tor Wennesland, United Nations special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, had a wide-ranging conversation on the topic with the Middle East Center’s John Ghazvinian.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
At Penn, the world’s first graduate queer art history fellowship
The McDonough Fellowships are supported by a 10-year, $3 million donation from Alphawood Foundation Chicago. They’re the first of their kind in higher education.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Q&A on the UK’s new prime minister
Political scientist Brendan O’Leary discusses Liz Truss’ fall, Rishi Sunak’s rise, and what it all means going forward.
News・ Education, Business, & Law
Closing the tenure gap for business faculty of color
Founded by two professors and Wharton alumni, The Tenure Project is on a mission to help more underrepresented junior business faculty receive tenure across the country.
News・ Campus & Community
Celebrating future renovation and expansion of historic Stuart Weitzman Hall
At a ceremonial groundbreaking, Dean Fritz Steiner, Stuart Weitzman, President Liz Magill, and Matt Nord of the School’s board of advisors joined guests to celebrate the future renovation and expansion of the 130-year-old Weitzman School of Design building now named Stuart Weitzman Hall.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
The language of loneliness and depression, revealed in social media
By analyzing Facebook posts, Penn researchers found that words associated with depression are often tied to emotions, whereas those associated with loneliness are linked to cognition.
News・ Health Sciences
DEI fellowship focuses on kidney health disparities
Penn Medicine’s Renal-Electrolyte & Hypertension division has created a first-of-its-kind fellowship for trainees—a chief DEI fellowship, with Valerie Nwanji as the inaugural chief DEI fellow.
News・ Science & Technology
Two Penn faculty elected American Physical Society fellows
Paulo Arratia of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Evelyn Thomson of the School of Arts & Sciences received the honor of being elected by their peers in recognition of their contributions to the field.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Multidisciplinary panel highlights role of the arts in human flourishing
At a panel event held Saturday, Oct. 22, Penn leaders from the arts and humanities, nursing, psychology, and neuroscience gathered to discuss the role of the arts in healing and flourishing.