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How data science can win the debate on police reform
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How data science can win the debate on police reform

Wharton’s Dean Knox discusses his research on racial bias in policing, and how retrospective data analysis can help inform future practices.

From Knowledge at Wharton

The role of data in a world reshaped by COVID-19
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The role of data in a world reshaped by COVID-19

Experts across Penn share their insights on how data and data science affect their fields in the context of an ongoing pandemic.

Katherine Unger Baillie, Michele W. Berger, Erica K. Brockmeier

Race and work in 2020
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Race and work in 2020

Wharton’s Stephanie Creary discusses how her LEAP framework is a step to being a better ally and creating equality in the workplace and beyond.

From Wharton Stories

Penn Clubs online platform helps students find extracurricular groups and activities
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The Penn Labs student group created the Penn Clubs online platform to build a comprehensive database for student groups. The new online platform hosted a virtual fall Student Activities Fair. The Penn Clubs team is led by seniors Selina Nie (top right) and Eric Wang (top center). 

Penn Clubs online platform helps students find extracurricular groups and activities

Discovering and joining extracurricular groups and activities is now easier with the new Penn Clubs online platform, developed and managed by students for students.
A post-pandemic path to solving the nursing home crisis
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A post-pandemic path to solving the nursing home crisis

A collaboration of experts across Penn schools has created a detailed, long-term policy plan for nursing homes, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

From Penn Carey Law

How to get voters off the fence? With a soft touch
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How to get voters off the fence? With a soft touch

According to Wharton’s Jonah Berger, one way to sway undecided voters is to break down the gap between two sides into smaller steps to make it easier for people to navigate.

From Knowledge at Wharton

‘Perspectives on Fair Housing’ looks back on more than 50 years of landmark legislation
decent housing was just one among many rights that activists were demanding As written on signs during the Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963, decent housing was just one among many rights that activists were demanding. (Image: Courtesy Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.)

‘Perspectives on Fair Housing’ looks back on more than 50 years of landmark legislation

A new Penn Press book featuring experts from law, education, urban studies, and social policy presents fair housing as one of the foremost issues facing the U.S. today.

Kristina García

Disaster relief: Why the poor need higher priority
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Disaster relief: Why the poor need higher priority

Wharton’s Carolyn Kousky discusses why low-income families struggle most following disasters, and outlines how to simplify receiving aid that truly helps.

From Knowledge at Wharton

Crowd-sourcing optogenetics data to tackle neurological diseases
Two people in front of two computer monitors. The person moving the mouse is sitting. The other person stands watching.

Sébastien Tremblay (front), a postdoctoral fellow in the Platt Labs, works in a specialized field of neuroscience called optogenetics, which shows clinical promise for treating conditions like epilepsy. To foster the open exchange of information, Tremblay spearheaded a crowd-sourced, free database that includes data from 45 labs in nine countries. (Pre-pandemic image: Kevin Monko)

Crowd-sourcing optogenetics data to tackle neurological diseases

The specialized field of neuroscience, optogenetics, shows clinical promise for conditions like epilepsy and Parkinson’s. But before human trials can get fully underway, the field must better understand a crucial intermediate step, aided by 45 labs in nine countries sharing information.

Michele W. Berger