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Coca-Cola in Africa
Sara Byala portrait and book cover for Bottled How Coca-Cola Became African by Sara Byala

Sara Byala, a senior lecturer in creative writing and associate director of the Penn Global Documentary Institute, is the author of a new book, "Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African." 

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    • Coca-Cola in Africa

    A new book by Sara Byala of the School of Arts & Sciences examines the century-long history of Coca-Cola and its local social, commercial, and environmental impact in Africa.
    The Asian American studies program doubles in size
    Andrea Cherng speaks to a roomful of students in the McNeil Atrium

    Andrea Cherng addresses students at the ASAM welcome lunch in September, joined by David Eng (left) and Fariha Khan (right). 

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    The Asian American studies program doubles in size

    Three core and two affiliated faculty members with expertise in English, sociology, history, anthropology, and education join the Asian American studies program.

    Kristina García

    A look at former Penn economics professor Claudia Goldin’s Nobel-winning work
    Two men and three women sit at desks with typwriters, rotary dial phones and desk calendars in an office in the 1950s.

    Workers in Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., in 1959.

    (Image: CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

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    • A look at former Penn economics professor Claudia Goldin’s Nobel-winning work

    Penn economists Jere Behrman, who overlapped with Goldin during her time at Penn, and Petra Todd, whose students have been motivated by Goldin’s work, talk about the importance of her research. 

    Kristen de Groot

    Cary Coglianese elected to the National Academy of Public Administration
    Cary Coglianese speaking to two people at a conference table.

    Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and director of the Penn Program on Regulation.

    (Image: Dave Barbaree)

    Cary Coglianese elected to the National Academy of Public Administration

    Penn Carey Law’s Edward B. Shils Professor of Law is an expert in administrative and regulatory law.

    From Penn Carey Law

    National Academy of Medicine elects five new members from Penn 
    Top row, from left to right: Kurt Thomas Barnhart, Christopher B. Forrest, and Susan L. Furth. Bottom row, left to right: Desmond Upton Patton and Robert H. Vonderheide.

    Top row, from left to right: Kurt Thomas Barnhart, Christopher B. Forrest, and Susan L. Furth. Bottom row, left to right: Desmond Upton Patton and Robert H. Vonderheide.

    (Images: Courtesy of Penn Medicine; Desmond Patton image by Eric Sucar)

    National Academy of Medicine elects five new members from Penn 

    Kurt T. Barnhart, Christopher B. Forrest, Susan L. Furth, Desmond Upton Patton, and Robert H. Vonderheide are among 100 new Academy members elected this year, one of the highest honors in health and medicine.
    Three from Penn receive NIH Director Award
    Headshots of Jina Ko, Kevin Johnson, and Sheila Shanmugan

    Jina Ko (left) and Kevin Johnson (middle), from both the School of Engineering and the Perelman School of Medicine, along with Sheila Shanmugan (right) from the latter, have received the National Institute of Health Director’s Award to support their “highly innovative and broadly impactful” research projects through the High-Risk, High-Reward program.

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    Three from Penn receive NIH Director Award

    Kevin B. Johnson, Jina Ko, and Sheila Shanmugan awarded NIH Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.
    ‘Ripple Effect’ explores hybrid work
    A person working at home on their laptop with headphones as seen through an open window.

    Image: iStock/gorodenkoff

    ‘Ripple Effect’ explores hybrid work

    The Wharton School’s faculty research podcast, “Ripple Effect,” delves into the nature and practice of hybrid work via faculty research, and presents it as knowledge employees can use.

    From Knowledge at Wharton