Eric Stach, Deep Jariwala, and Troy Olsson earned this year’s Nokia Bell Labs Prize, with their proposal for “disruptive innovations that will define the next industrial revolution.”

At Penn, less than 1% of the student body identifies as Native American, but in the diverse schools and through Natives at Penn, Native students have forged a close-knit community. Wharton Stories speaks with Ryly Ziese, a finance concentrator and member of the Cherokee Nation, and Lauren McDonald, a finance and business analytics concentrator and member of the Onondaga Nation.

With only two levels of superposition, the qubits used in today’s quantum communication technologies have limited storage space and low tolerance for interference. The Feng Lab’s hyperdimensional microlaser generates qudits, photons with four simultaneous levels of information. The increase in dimension makes for robust quantum communication technology better suited for real-world applications.

The program is a collaboration between Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and is led by the Penn Urban Health Lab. The grants, awarded with help from community partners, fund initiatives to support vacant lot cleanup, community space creation and programming, and more.

Members from across the University and representatives from Philadelphia’s business, government, and community sectors gathered at the Inn at Penn to celebrate the Eidos LGBTQ+ Health Initiative with a launch party. Launched in January 2022, the Eidos LGBTQ+ Health Initiative is the first program of its kind, cultivating change efforts as a connector and think tank.

Police officers are commonly found in emergency departments, but hospital policy is lacking in regards to their interactions with patients.

“The Landscape Project” is the first-ever publication from the Department of Landscape Architecture to collect essays by the faculty. It features 18 essays by 20 members of the faculty on the ways landscape architects today engage with agriculture, energy, water, urbanism or another issue through the agency of design.

CareConnect is a partnership between Penn’s 24/7 virtual urgent care, Penn Medicine OnDemand, and a team of substance use navigators. Fifty-five percent of CareConnect’s patients with opioid use disorder had an active prescription for treatment a month after first engaging with the program.