Weeks after Amazon’s Alexa+ AI launch, a mystery: Where are the users?
Americus Reed of the Wharton School says that Amazon failed to build anticipation for Alexa+ by leaving a large gap between product launch and general availability.
For the first time, a CRISPR drug treats a child’s unique mutation
Kiran Musunuru and Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas of the Perelman School of Medicine led a team from Penn and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia that used gene editing to heal a baby with a rare genetic condition.
Five small habits sports psychologists wish everyone did
Elizabeth Nobis of Penn Athletics recommends small habits and mental tools to help reset a person’s attitude.
Rutgers is looking for its next president. We gathered a list of possible candidates
Julie Wollman of the Graduate School of Education says that the next choice for Rutgers University’s president will likely be a sitting president or a successful provost.
Americans say benefits of MMR vaccine for children outweigh risks by nearly 5-1
Penn Nursing’s Julie A. Fairman elected to American Philosophical Society
How much does chronic absenteeism cost communities?
According to a report by A. Brooks Bowden of the Graduate School of Education, each student who is chronically absent in California schools creates a $5,630 economic burden to the community.
Baby healed in world’s first gene-editing therapy; Indian-origin doctor plays key role
Kiran Musunuru and Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas of the Perelman School of Medicine led colleagues at Penn and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to treat a baby with a rare genetic disorder using a customized gene-editing treatment.

(Clockwise from top left) Sona Sundaramurthy with her husband, Anantha Puthucode (right), and Andrzej Biesiekirski (left) in Panama City; Alfonso L. Corcuera (left) and Biesiekirski in Seoul; Edmond Chan (right) at a Philadelphia social gathering; Corcuera and wife Maria Fernanda Iniestra in San Francisco; Sundaramurthy harvests cassava in Bangkok; executive MBA students in Berlin.
(Image: Courtesy of Wharton Magazine)
Wharton graduates first Global Executive MBA cohort

Artworks by the two master of fine arts students graduating in the Class of 2025, Eissa Attar (left) and Alvin Luong, are in a thesis exhibition at the Arthur Ross Gallery through a new collaboration with the Weitzman School of Design.
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