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Penn Glee Club goes to Italy
Members of Penn’s Glee Club in a square in an Italian city.

The Glee Club members did extensive touring, including to St. Peter’s Square and St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.

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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
A group of rhesus macaques sits amidst the bare, leafless trees of their hurricane-impacted habitat.

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
Person looking at real estate on a laptop.

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‘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.

From Knowledge at Wharton

Fourth cohort of Projects for Progress recipients announced
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Fourth cohort of Projects for Progress recipients announced

The initiative, run out of the Office of Social Equity and Community, provides University funding up to $100,000 each to Penn teams taking on big social justice issues in the city.

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More than two hearts beat as one
A person in a suit and button-down shirt sitting on a stairwell landing, smiling. The intricate white stairwell and a brick wall behind it are to the person's right.

Penn Integrates Knowledge professor Michael Platt holds appointments in the Department of Psychology in the School of Arts & Sciences, the Department of Neuroscience in the Perelman School of Medicine, and the Marketing Department in the Wharton School.

More than two hearts beat as one

PIK Professor Michael Platt and collaborators studied how physiologic measures like cardiac synchrony can guide decision making in groups. Their study found that heart rate synchrony was a much better predictor than standard questionnaire-based surveys.
Class of 2024 Ivy Day Awards Ceremony
Eight fourth-year students stand with various awards (spoon, shovel, hat, etc)

From left to right: Josias Zongo with the Cane Award, Toyosi Abu with the Spoon Award, Jack Immanuel with the Spade Award, Taussia Boadi with the David R Goddard Loving Cup Award, Ashley Song with the Bowl Award, Milan Chand with the Althea K Hottel Shield Award, Annabelle Noyes with the Gaylord P Harnwell Flag Award, and Xavier Shankle with the R Jean Brownlee Skimmer Hat Award.

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Class of 2024 Ivy Day Awards Ceremony

The Ivy Day Ceremony recognizes outstanding graduating seniors for their leadership and service.

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Celebrating family firsts and resourcefulness in the Class of 2024
Lynn Larabi, Crystal Marshall, and Jason Chu.

Lynn Larabi, Crystal Marshall, and Jason Chu are among the first-generation college students graduating in the Class of 2024.

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Celebrating family firsts and resourcefulness in the Class of 2024

Lynn Larabi, Crystal Marshall, and Jason Chu all entered Penn as first-generation college undergraduates and the children of immigrants and pursued different paths: political science, film, and finance and accounting.
A Wharton TA helps to communicate business communications
Chandler McCLeskey.

As a teaching assistant, Chandler McCleskey found the path to his future profession, and the internships to get him there.

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A Wharton TA helps to communicate business communications

Chandler McCleskey discusses being a teaching assistant for the business communication course for Wharton undergraduates.

From Wharton Stories

Addressing declining fertility
Artist rendering of fertility decline. Depopulation, demographic crisis. Baby bottles in the form of graph and down arrow.

In a recent paper, PIK Professor Michael Platt and the Perelman School of Medicine’s Peter Sterling posit that the underlying mechanism of the looming concern of human fertility declines is the epidemic of despair.

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    • Addressing declining fertility

    In a Q&A with Penn Today, Michael Platt talks about the socioeconomic and emotional factors leading to plummeting fertility rates.