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Penn Nursing announces Conway Scholars for 2025-26

Penn Nursing announces Conway Scholars for 2025-26

This is the third cohort of Conway Scholars, funded with a grant from Bedford Falls Foundation, and awarded to 80 high-merit students with financial need.

Kelly Jordan-Sciutto on advancing graduate education through Penn Forward
Kelly Jordan-Sciutto smiling at fellow panelists.

Kelly Jordan-Sciutto, vice provost for graduate education and chair of the Penn Forward working group for Graduate and Professional Training. 

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    • Kelly Jordan-Sciutto on advancing graduate education through Penn Forward

    Kelly Jordan-Sciutto, vice provost for graduate education and chair of the Penn Forward Graduate and Professional Training working group, says, ‘I don’t want students to walk uphill both ways in the snow just because I had to.’

    7 min. read

    Brain activity reveals what makes persuasive messages stick

    Brain activity reveals what makes persuasive messages stick

    A new study by the Communication Neuroscience Lab at the Annenberg School for Communication and colleagues reveals that activity in brain regions associated with reward and social processing can predict the effectiveness of messages.

    From Annenberg School for Communication

    2 min. read

    How California’s new AI law seeks to safeguard children

    How California’s new AI law seeks to safeguard children

    Wharton professor of legal studies and business ethics Kevin Werbach discusses the implications of California’s new AI safety legislation focused on protecting children online.

    Laura Perna named one of the inaugural ASHE Fellows

    Laura Perna named one of the inaugural ASHE Fellows

    The vice provost for faculty and the Graduate School for Education Centennial Presidential Professor of Education joins 24 scholars from across the country in the first class of fellows of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

    Rabies resurgence in Peru highlights global threats of health inequity
    An ambulance in Peru.

    Image: Artur Widak via AP Images

    Rabies resurgence in Peru highlights global threats of health inequity

    A Penn Medicine analysis shows that surveillance of dog rabies in Arequipa, Peru, is lacking in areas with lower socioeconomic status and could spell problems for infectious disease worldwide.

    Frank Otto

    2 min. read

    Air travel quandary: Gad Allon and Megan Ryerson on challenges and solutions
    Travelers in a busy security checkpoint at an airport.

    Travelers at a security checkpoint at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago during the government shutdown in November.

    (Image: Nam Y. Huh via Getty Images)

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    • Air travel quandary: Gad Allon and Megan Ryerson on challenges and solutions

    The recent government shutdown exposed long-standing issues facing commercial air travel. Leading into Thanksgiving holiday travel, Gad Allon of the Wharton School and Megan Ryerson of the Weitzman School of Design discuss the system’s infrastructure challenges and the need for workforce development.

    4 min. read

    Why are credit card rates so high?

    Why are credit card rates so high?

    Credit card lending delivers a much higher return on assets than the banking sector, according to new research co-authored by Wharton finance professor Itamar Drechsler.

    From Knowledge at Wharton

    2 min. read

    Letting the sunshine in and monitoring stormwater runoff
    Tree saplings next to the solar panels.

    Trees planted next to the solar panels are enhancing stormwater runoff infiltration.

    (Image: The Water Center at Penn)

    Letting the sunshine in and monitoring stormwater runoff

    As the buzz around renewable energy grows louder, a research endeavor led by the Water Center at Penn exemplifies of how addressing energy demands goes hand-in-hand with tackling water challenges.

    From the Environmental Innovations Initiative

    2 min. read