The Fed explained: What it does and why it matters
Former Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker and financial historian Peter Conti-Brown, both Wharton professors, unpack the central bank’s origins, its unusual structure, and the quiet ways it shapes the economy
Graduates from all 12 Schools are taking their degrees and expertise and heading out into the world as graduate students, postdocs, residents, entrepreneurs, startup execs, policy workers, and more, with the interdisciplinary groundwork of a Penn degree in tow.
Want to succeed in academia? Build a network beyond your co-authors
Researchers at the Annenberg School for Communication have analyzed the “thank you” notes in 129,750 political science journal articles and find that informal connections between authors are more predictive of higher productivity and impact than formal connections.
Chapters of Change: Thirty years of life sciences transformation at Penn
In the fourth and final installment of the series, “Chapters of Change” highlights another transformational moment in Penn’s past when the evolution of life sciences research sparked the University to commit to investing in new research facilities and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Fourth-year Naseebullah Andar and graduate student Brianna Leung are 2026 Knight-Hennessy Scholars.
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Penn fourth-year and graduate student named 2026 Knight-Hennessy Scholars
The scholarship provides financial support for as long as three years to pursue a graduate degree and global leadership training at Stanford University.
Penn researchers are turning food scraps into building materials—from pineapple peels to celery stalks
“The biomaterials revolution is coming and we all need to be prepared to be able to deliver materials that are healthier, that can biodegrade naturally and then still perform the same way concrete performs, the same way technical ceramics perform,” says Laia Mogas-Soldevila of the Weitzman School of Design.
‘The system is failing us’: Philadelphia utility customers call on City Council to help rein in bills
“After decades of relatively flat electric loads nationwide, U.S. electricity demand is experiencing an unprecedented surge,” says Jamie Van Nostrand of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy in the Weitzman School of Design.
