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Penn GSE makes math meaningful for West Philly kids
A teacher writing math problems on a white board in front of an elementary school student.

Penn GSE makes math meaningful for West Philly kids

The Responsive Math Teaching project, currently funded by the National Science, has kids in West Philly schools engaging in the work, rather than passively completing it, through summer “math festivals.”

From Penn GSE

Singing, speech production, and the brain
A person standing up adjusting a headset over a person sitting in a soundproof room. Barely visible in front of the sitting person is a computer screen and keyboard. A fire alarm sits above a window behind both people.

Eiffert situates a headset on participant Maggie Compton. The metal contraption holds an ultrasound probe in place under Compton’s chin, to capture images of her tongue placement in the mouth.

Singing, speech production, and the brain

This summer, rising second-years Audrey Keener and Nicholas Eiffert worked in the lab of Penn linguist Jianjing Kuang studying vowel articulation in song, running an in-person experiment and built a corpus of classical recordings by famous singers.

Michele W. Berger

Clay White named new men’s golf coach
Clay White, wearing a Seton Hall shirt, stands on a golf course whith his hands on his hip, while standing in between two people.

Clay White named new men’s golf coach

White spent the past 18 years as the head coach at Seton Hall and led the Pirates to the 2022 Big East Championship.

Penn Today Staff

Employee turnover costs more than you think
Smartphone factory assembly line.

Employee turnover costs more than you think

A new study from Wharton’s Ken Moon reveals the hidden cost of employee turnover by drawing a direct link between higher quit rates and product failure for a smartphone manufacturer.

From Knowledge at Wharton

James J. Husson named head of Development and Alumni Relations at Penn
James Husson.

Effective October 17, 2022, James Husson will head a division devoted to fundraising and to nurturing relationships with the University’s alumni.

James J. Husson named head of Development and Alumni Relations at Penn

Starting in October, Husson will head a division devoted to fundraising and to nurturing relationships with the University’s alumni.
Takeaways from the Wyoming, Alaska primaries
Liz Cheney speaks at a podium outside as sun sets

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) speaks Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, at a primary Election Day gathering at Mead Ranch in Jackson, Wyo. Cheney lost to challenger Harriet Hageman in the primary. (Image: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

  • Q&A

    • Takeaways from the Wyoming, Alaska primaries

    John Lapinski, a political scientist in the School of Arts & Sciences and director of elections at NBC News, discusses the election results and what they could mean for November’s midterms.

    Kristen de Groot

    For new DPS VP, it’s all about ‘actions, not words’
    Kathleen Shields Anderson leans against the wall of DPS headquarters

    Kathleen Shields Anderson, vice president of the Department of Public Safety, outside of the DPS headquarters.

    For new DPS VP, it’s all about ‘actions, not words’

    Following a national search, Kathleen Shields Anderson was named vice president of Penn’s Division of Public Safety.
    Understanding the Inflation Reduction Act
    Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, and Joe Manchin at a bill signing. Biden is sitting at a desk with the Presidential Seal. Schumer and Manchin are standing behind him. Behind all three are two American flags and a third other flag.

    President Joe Biden hands the pen he used to sign the Democrats’ landmark climate change and health care bill to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. (Image: AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

    Understanding the Inflation Reduction Act

    Penn experts explain the climate, health care, and economic aspects of the legislation that President Biden signed into law this week, plus the politics of getting it passed.

    Katherine Unger Baillie, Michele W. Berger, Kristen de Groot, Dee Patel

    Targeting impulsivity early in adolescence could prevent later behavioral disorders
    Four adolescents sitting on the top of a skate ramp.

    Targeting impulsivity early in adolescence could prevent later behavioral disorders

    Tendencies toward impulsivity in early adolescence are linked with a variety of poor outcomes in later adolescence. By mid-adolescence, it may be too late to target impulsivity to prevent those developments.

    From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

    Who, What, Why: Kimeze Teketwe brings Luganda to Penn
    Kimeze "Dickson" Teketwe Kimeze “Dickson” Teketwe is a master’s student in the International Education Development program at the Graduate School of Education. He is also a graduate fellow in the Center for Africana Studies and lecturer in the Penn Language Center in the School of Arts & Sciences.
  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Kimeze Teketwe brings Luganda to Penn

    The GSE master’s student from Uganda taught the first ever course on this language in the spring of 2022. This fall the program continues with another intro class, followed by an advanced class next spring.

    Michele W. Berger