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What is the future of the hybrid workplace?
Sign on conference room window that reads LIMIT 4 PEOPLE PER ROOM, behind the window sit two masked employees.

What is the future of the hybrid workplace?

According to Wharton’s Martine Haas, companies will adopt a hybrid workplace model with some combination of remote and in-person work.

From Knowledge at Wharton

Five things to know about Georgia’s new voting law
Voters stand in line outside against a white wall, socially distanced and wearing masks.

Georgia’s new voting law has been decried by opponents as designed to disenfranchise minority voters, while supporters argue it in fact expands voting rights. So, which is it?

(Image: Infrogmation of New Orleans)

Five things to know about Georgia’s new voting law

Political scientist Marc Meredith of the School of Arts & Sciences shares his takeaways from the controversial new bill.

Kristen de Groot

Wharton’s Olivia S. Mitchell on financial well-being
African American woman using an ATM.

Wharton’s Olivia S. Mitchell on financial well-being

Leading economist and Wharton professor Olivia S. Mitchell discusses key findings from her new research on financial well-being among Black and Hispanic women.

From Wharton Stories

The path to deeper connections, even amidst a pandemic
Headshots of two people. On the left is a person with glasses wearing a blazer, white shirt and blue tie. On the right is a person in a black blazer, black-and-white blouse and visible necklace. Both are smiling.

Edward Brodkin is co-director of the Autism Spectrum Program of Excellence, director of the Adult Autism Spectrum Program, and an associate professor of psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine. Penn alumna Ashley Pallathra is a clinical researcher and therapist pursuing her Ph.D. at The Catholic University of America. They co-wrote “Missing Each Other.” (Images: Christopher Descano)

The path to deeper connections, even amidst a pandemic

A new book from Penn’s Edward Brodkin and psychology doctoral candidate Ashley Pallathra focuses on the science and practice of attunement, the process by which people can most effectively connect to themselves and others.

Michele W. Berger

The ‘dreams and nightmares’ of immigration
A map with a red line tracing a route from Guatemala to Philadelphia

Liliana Velásquez left Guatemala alone, at 14 years old. She was one of over 326,000 unaccompanied minors apprehended by immigration authorities between 2013 and 2019. 

The ‘dreams and nightmares’ of immigration

Author Liliana Velásquez and journalist Juan González narrated personal and collective histories of Latin American migration to the U.S. in a School of Social Policy & Practice event.

Kristina García

Communicating change in a ‘land of extremes’
fog rolling in over mongolia water

Communicating change in a ‘land of extremes’

In Aurora MacRae-Crerar’s Penn Global Seminar, students are grappling with the impacts of a shifting and unpredictable climate in Mongolia.

Katherine Unger Baillie

David S. Roos on the future of COVID-19
Selfie of David Roos in front of two desktop computer monitors and a laptop.

David O. Roos, E. Otis Kendall Professor of Biology. (Image: Courtesy of David O. Roos)

David S. Roos on the future of COVID-19

The E. Otis Kendall Professor of Biology and infectious disease specialist discusses the virus, its variants, and vaccines in a Q&A.

From Omnia