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Novel practices on how businesses relate to customers
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Novel practices on how businesses relate to customers

In a new book, Peter Fader, a professor of marketing at the Wharton School, shows business leaders the path toward understanding the health of their overall customer base.

Dee Patel

Higher education’s role in democracy
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(Homepage image) In last spring’s How Washington Really Works seminar, guest speaker Liz Fowler (center) gives students her insider view on helping write the Affordable Care Act as George Mason Professor Steven Pearlstein, (left), and Penn Vice Provost for Global Initiatives Ezekiel Emanuel (right) listen.

Higher education’s role in democracy

Experts from across the University share their thoughts on how their research, departments, and centers help foster democracy.

Kristen de Groot

Algorithm for 2D-to-3D engineering integrates art, nature, and science
Rendering of layers of a helmet illustrating the shift from 2D to 3D materials.

The algorithm does not allow the cuts in each two-dimensional layer to overlap with one another. The resulting helmet is both lightweight and durable. (Image: Penn Engineering Today)

Algorithm for 2D-to-3D engineering integrates art, nature, and science

Penn Engineering’s Shu Yang and researchers have developed a universal algorithm that allows 2D materials to remain lightweight and durable when converted to 3D structures.

From Penn Engineering Today

Cross country trio earns All-Ivy praise
Third-year runner Maeve Stiles (left), fourth-year runner Lizzy Bader (top), and first-year runner Lily Murphy (bottom) run during a cross country race outside in the grass.

Cross country trio earns All-Ivy praise

Third-year runner Maeve Stiles has received First-Team All-Ivy recognition. Fourth-year runner Lizzy Bader and first-year runner Lily Murphy picked up Second-Team honors.
Physics of disaster: How mudslides move
A few people walk along a mountainside as some vegetation regrows after a wildfire

The Thomas Fire charred the hillsides above Montecito in late 2017, setting up conditions for mudslides in early 2018. (Image: Douglas Jerolmack)

Physics of disaster: How mudslides move

Researchers led by Douglas Jerolmack and Paulo Arratia used samples from the deadly 2018 Montecito mudslides to understand the complex forces at work in these disasters.

Katherine Unger Baillie

The history of abortion access in the U.S.
A person walks past the door at Planned Parenthood.

The history of abortion access in the U.S.

Following the Dobbs v. Jackson decision issued by the U.S. Supreme Court in June, overruling Roe v. Wade’s established right to an abortion, Penn professors describe the history that led to this moment.
Affirmative action in higher ed
Students holding signs in favor of affirmative action in protest at Supreme Court.

People rally outside the Supreme Court as the court begins to hear oral arguments in two cases that could decide the future of affirmative action in college admissions on Oct. 31, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Image: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Affirmative action in higher ed

Cara McClellan of the Law School’s Advocacy for Racial and Civil Justice Clinic explains what’s at stake in the Supreme Court case over Harvard’s affirmative action policy.

From Penn Carey Law