Penn in the News

Kevin Werbach of the Wharton School says, “Gamification is about understanding what it is that makes games engaging and what game designers do to create a great experience in games, and taking those learnings and applying them to other contexts such as the workplace and education.”

Paul Meyer of the Morris Arboretum is quoted about specimens of trees and their value.

Rowan University is preparing to take the first steps toward creating a medical school campus in Atlantic City, extending the footprint of its growing medical programs and potentially tapping a new student base there. Rowan trustees are set to vote Wednesday on a feasibility study to explore an Atlantic City partnership between the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine and AtlantiCare.

Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School writes about “originalism.”

Katie Margo of the Perelman School of Medicine is featured for training medical professionals in how to talk to transgender patients.

ENIAC is included on a list of tech and science highlights.

Kermit Roosevelt of the Law School comments on President Obama nominating replacement for the late Justice Scalia on the Supreme Court.

The research of Donald B. Keim and Olivia S. Mitchell of the Wharton School is quoted.

Brian Rosenwald of the School of Arts & Sciences writes about President Obama potentially nominating a new Supreme Court justice.

They call themselves “hotelies”: students and alumni of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, the world’s oldest undergraduate program devoted to the hospitality industry and, many say, the best. The school is considered the Harvard of hospitality programs, consistently topping best-of lists and rankings. Its graduates, school officials like to say, do not just run individual hotels, they own entire hotel chains or groups of restaurants.