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A Wharton initiative championing global change
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The Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School, Penn, and its many partners issued a call for proposals for an initiative: Building Capacity to Combat COVID-19 in Africa: Ideas and Innovations from Young Entrepreneurs. (Image: Ideas for Action, The Wharton School)

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    • A Wharton initiative championing global change

    The Ideas for Action Wharton undergraduate student club is a joint initiative with the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research to engage youth around the world in developing solutions to global challenges.

    Dee Patel

    Penn Wharton Budget Model looks at immigration and macroeconomics
    Outside of a U.S. & Immigration building.

    Penn Wharton Budget Model looks at immigration and macroeconomics

    New research from the Penn Wharton Budget Model finds increasing legal immigration in the U.S. leads to long term fiscal benefits, while policies which legalize unauthorized immigrants increase government debt.

    Dee Patel

    At Fuyao Glass factory, students put Chinese language skills into practice
    Students posing for a photo inside Fuyao America building

    Penn students, senior lecturer Mien-hwa Chiang (fourth from left), and director of the Chinese Language Program Ye Tian (first from left) visited Fuyao America in Moraine, Ohio, in February. Fourth from the right: Lillian Wagner; second from left: Sam Gan, third from left: Ryan Morris. (Image: Penn Chinese Language Program)

    At Fuyao Glass factory, students put Chinese language skills into practice

    At Fuyao Glass America in Moraine, Ohio, the subject of the Oscar-winning 2019 film “American Factory,” students and faculty were led on a tour and dialogued with the Fuyao America CEO.
    The changing face of portraiture at Penn
    portrait in leidy labs

    Homepage image: A portrait in Leidy honors Nathan Francis Mossell, who, in 1882, became the first African American student to earn a medical degree from Penn. With its placement in the accessible portion of the building’s stairway, this new portrait gallery is highly visible to students, staff, faculty, and visitors who spend time in the Biology Department.

    The changing face of portraiture at Penn

    Efforts around campus aim to diversify those honored in portraits and rethink how to approach representation through art.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Social connections influence brain structure of rhesus macaques
    Three adults rhesus macaques and two infants macaques sitting on a rock in a forest located on the island of Cayo Santiago.

    A grooming chain of adult female rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago, an island off the coast of Puerto Rico. Researchers in the Platt labs have studied this group of free-ranging nonhuman primates for more than a decade. This most recent work builds on previous research aimed at understanding the link between social connections and the brain. (Image: Lauren JN Brent)

    Social connections influence brain structure of rhesus macaques

    Researchers from Penn, Inserm, and elsewhere observed that the number of grooming partners an individual animal had predicted the size of brain areas associated with social decision-making and empathy.

    Michele W. Berger

    Tangen Hall brings together aspiring entrepreneurs across the University
    students working in tangen hall lab

    Penn students working on the first floor of Tangen Hall. The first floor of the building is home to three of the five innovation spaces operated by Penn Engineering, which are intended to teach students to use physical tools to prototype and test their ideas. 

    Tangen Hall brings together aspiring entrepreneurs across the University

    At seven stories and 68,000 square feet, the Wharton-led Tangen is the largest student entrepreneurship hub in the world.

    Dee Patel

    How to have more successful conversations
    Four coworkers standing by sunlit windows having a conversation, wearing face masks.

    How to have more successful conversations

    Whether negotiating a salary increase or chatting with a co-worker, people have more productive conversations when they identify their motives and goals. Wharton’s Maurice Schweitzer offers a tool for doing just that.

    From Knowledge at Wharton

    Talking energy at Penn
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    Talking energy at Penn

    Energy Week 2022, hosted by the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and the Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology, runs April 4-8. It includes student presentations, along with conversations about renewables, energy and the war in Ukraine, and much more.

    Michele W. Berger , Lindsey Samahon

    Five Penn students are 2022 Goldwater Scholars
    five students

    Five undergraduates have received 2022 Goldwater Scholarships, awarded to sophomores or juniors planning research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering. Penn’s newest Goldwater Scholars are (from left) juniors Joshua Chen, Allison Chou, Shriya Karam, Laila Barakat Norford, and Andrew Sontag.

    Five Penn students are 2022 Goldwater Scholars

    Five juniors have received 2022 Goldwater Scholarships to pursue research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering. Penn's newest Goldwater Scholars are Joshua Chen, Allison Chou, Shriya Karam, Laila Barakat Norford, and Andrew Sontag.