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Three Penn faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Three faculty members at the University of Pennsylvania have been elected to the Class of 2018 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Tackling blindness with nanotechnology

To tackle blindness caused by open angle glaucoma, Brandon Kao, Rui Jing Jiang, and Adarsh Battu came up with Visiplate, a nanoscale ocular implant that shunts away excess fluid.

Restored Robbins House celebrates collaborative M&T spirit

The 200 or so students in the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology didn’t just need a workspace, they needed a home. And with the newly renovated Robbins House, they got one.

Empowering workers while reducing waste in Mumbai

In Mumbai, waste sorters represent a crucial yet marginalized labor pool, diverting would-be trash from landfills by sorting and selling recyclables. President’s Engagement Prize recipients Svanika Balasubramanian and Peter Wang Hjemdahl will connect these workers to larger recycling operations through a digital marketplace.

Building bridges

The Penn-Wharton China Summit aligns students with the Chinese business community and opportunities for leadership through an event of their own making.

Shepherding discoveries from the lab to the pharmacy

In a new book, a biochemist, a sociologist, and an economist share insights into how biomedical discoveries become marketable innovations.

Penn Global Seminar provides students with mind-opening experiences

During spring break, 15 students from the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Wharton School, Management and Technology program, and School of Arts and Sciences traveled to Beijing and Shanghai to learn more about engineering and technology innovations in China.

How psychology explains the itch for spring cleaning

Wharton Professor Katherine Milkman teases out the “fresh start effect” of temporal landmarks like the first day of spring, New Year’s Day, and other meaningful calendar dates.

Top left: Chicago Furniture Bank. Top Right: rePurpose. Bottom Left: Alaiana Hall. Bottom Right: Avisi.

Class of 2018 President’s Engagement and Innovation Prize winners announced

Nine seniors received the annual awards for their post-graduate projects, designed to make a meaningful global impact.

Janet Yellen, former chair of the Federal Reserve

Janet Yellen: What the Fed has learned since the financial crisis

Former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen reflected on regulators’ missteps in preventing the 2008 financial crisis during a recent interview with Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel.

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