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Law firm engages women on domestic violence
Ghana News Agency

Law firm engages women on domestic violence

A visiting student delegation from Penn Carey Law helped engage Ghanese women in a community legal outreach training program on domestic violence and women empowerment.

Ever more corporations are global. What are they responsible for?
Toyota dealership office with glass paneling

A Toyota dealership in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 29, 2020. Toyota is headquartered in Toyota City in Japan but does business in 170 countries.

(Image: iStock/Marina113)

Ever more corporations are global. What are they responsible for?

Faculty from the Wharton School explore what the responsibilities of multinational corporations are to their home countries as business continues to globalize—and as ESG principles gain traction.
A new role for NATO in conflict zones
A damaged area in Mosul. Image: Gina Haney

A view of Mosul following attacks on the city by ISIS. Image: Gina Haney

(Image: Gina Haney)

A new role for NATO in conflict zones

One year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, PIK Professor Lynn Meskell calls on the alliance to take a more expansive view of cultural property protection.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Three ways to respond following the earthquake in Turkey and Syria
A building standing amid piles of rubble set against a blue sky. The building is partially collapsed.

A building in Antakya, in southeastern Turkey, was heavily damaged during the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.

(Image: AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Three ways to respond following the earthquake in Turkey and Syria

Guidance from the Center for High Impact Philanthropy, Penn Global, and Penn Medicine’s disaster preparedness team on how to help from afar and what resources are available on campus.

Michele W. Berger, Kristina García , Juliana Rosati

The future of health research in Malawi
Four peple standing, posing for the camera. Three are students at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences. The fourth is a professor there, Adamson Muula.

Adamson Muula (second from left), a professor of public health & epidemiology at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, and students.

(Image: Courtesy of Young Researchers Forum Malawi and KUHeS Research Support Center)

The future of health research in Malawi

A workshop convened by Penn, University College Dublin, and the Young Researchers Forum in Malawi brought together stakeholders to discuss the African nation’s use of technology in health care and the double burden of non-communicable and infectious diseases.

Michele W. Berger

Understanding India’s urban future
khandela city streets

An unpaved road in Khandela. Most small towns have poor-quality roads, Thachil says. “They need everything.”

(Image: Tariq Thachil)

Understanding India’s urban future

A two-year project supported by Penn Global and the Center for the Advanced Study of India takes a deep dive into the political workings of India’s rapidly urbanizing landscape.

Kristina García

This Wharton undergrad cycled the world’s highest volcano
Ryan Torres holds his mountain bike aloft on Locust Walk in cycling gear.

Second-year Wharton student Ryan Torres on Locust Walk with the bike that brought him to the summit of the world’s tallest volcano.

(Image: Courtesy of Wharton Stories)

This Wharton undergrad cycled the world’s highest volcano

Second-year Ryan Torres not only scaled Ojos del Salado by bike, he raised funds for World Bicycle Relief, an international nonprofit dedicated to improving access to cycling around the world.

From Wharton Stories

Penn Medicine doctor brings lifesaving tech to global conflict zones
Nahreen Ahmed and medical personnel at a clinic in Yemen.

Penn Medicine’s Nahreen Ahmed (second from right) works with doctors around the world in conflict zones and resettlement areas, including Yemen, pictured above. (Image: Penn Medicine News)

Penn Medicine doctor brings lifesaving tech to global conflict zones

Nahreen Ahmed, a physician with Penn Medicine, has trained physicians and other care providers around the world in using ultrasound machines to assess injuries and other health concerns.

From Penn Medicine News