Wharton faculty on investment strategies, birth rates, and climate change Image: iStock/Liountmila Korelidou Wharton faculty on investment strategies, birth rates, and climate change The latest episodes of the faculty research podcast, ‘Ripple Effect,’ showcase recent books from three experts.
New books from Wharton faculty Image: iStock/hrabar New books from Wharton faculty The latest installments of The Wharton School’s faculty research podcast, “Ripple Effect,” showcases recent books on leadership, customer service, immigration, and the power of data.
Showing up for Penn in London Interim Penn President J. Larry Jameson addresses the audience at Penn’s academic symposium in London on Friday, June 21, 2024.(Image: Courtesy of Penn Giving) Showing up for Penn in London A capacity audience attended an academic symposium in London titled “Frontiers of Knowledge and Discovery: Leading in a Changing World.”
Dual degree nursing student takes on PennCASE summer internship William Xi.(Image: Courtesy of Penn Nursing News) Dual degree nursing student takes on PennCASE summer internship William Xi’s eight-week CASE Summer Internship with Penn Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania Health System involves data management, artificial intelligence, and social media engagement.
Will America’s clean car policies persist? Image: iStock/OceanProd Will America’s clean car policies persist? Four ambitious clean-car policies are driving a major transformation in the United States. Will they survive legal and political threats?
Duncan Watts and CSSLab’s New Media Bias Detector iStock: microgen Duncan Watts and CSSLab’s New Media Bias Detector PIK Professor Duncan Watts and colleagues have developed the Media Bias Detector, which uses artificial intelligence to analyze news articles, examining factors like tone, partisan lean, and fact selection.
Text reminders about COVID-19 boosters are as effective as free rides, new study finds (Image: dusanpetkovic) Text reminders about COVID-19 boosters are as effective as free rides, new study finds In a new megastudy, Katy Milkman of the Wharton School and collaborators at Penn’s Behavior Change for Good Initiative led research on reminders and free rides to and from pharmacies to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates.
Penn Glee Club goes to Italy The Glee Club members did extensive touring, including to St. Peter’s Square and St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.nocred Penn Glee Club goes to Italy Rome, Milan, and Naples became the stage for the Penn Glee Club during its 10-day tour of Italy. Thirty-seven members went on the trip, mostly vocalists, but also members of the band and the tech crew.
Hurricane changed ‘rules of the game’ in monkey society For more than 17 years, PIK Professor Michael Platt and his collaborators have followed a free-ranging colony of rhesus macaques in the Puerto Rican Island of Cayo Santiago who, in 2017, experienced the devastation of Hurricane Maria. The team showed that the macaques who invested in relationships had higher survival rates, findings that can provide insights into human social behavior and health in the face of environmental change.(Image: Courtesy of Lauren J. Brent) Hurricane changed ‘rules of the game’ in monkey society PIK Professor Michael Platt and collaborators from the University of Exeter find Hurricane Maria transformed a monkey society by changing the pros and cons of their interpersonal relations.
‘Ripple Effect’ explores the world of real estate Image: iStock/mapo ‘Ripple Effect’ explores the world of real estate The latest installments of The Wharton School’s faculty research podcast, ‘Ripple Effect,’ delves into the economics and market fluctuations of the real estate world and housing market.