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Building tomorrow’s innovators: Penn’s Widjaja Entrepreneurship Fellows Program
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David Bakalov, center, hopes to leverage his Fellows experience to develop new medical treatments.

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Building tomorrow’s innovators: Penn’s Widjaja Entrepreneurship Fellows Program

The Sugi and Millie Widjaja Engineering Entrepreneurship Fellows Program matches 12 Penn students with mentors to learn what it takes to transform ideas into potential companies.

Ian Scheffler

‘Ripple Effect’ asks ‘Who benefits from innovations?’
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‘Ripple Effect’ asks ‘Who benefits from innovations?’

The latest installments of The Wharton School’s faculty research podcast, ‘Ripple Effect,’ delves into transformative innovations and their effect on the populations they reach.

From Knowledge at Wharton

Sophia Z. Lee: ‘The Reconciliation Roots of Fourth Amendment Privacy’
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Sophia Z. Lee: ‘The Reconciliation Roots of Fourth Amendment Privacy’

The dean of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School explores “privacies of life” and Fourth Amendment rights in the University of Chicago Law Review.

From Penn Carey Law

Stentix wins the 2025 Y-Prize
Winners of Penn’s 2025 Y-Prize holding their certificates.

The Stentix team (top) Summer Cobb and Amanda Kossoff, (bottom) Aarsha Shah and Elizabeth Jia, with judges (descending left) Matt Fitz-Henry, Jason Smith, Jennifer Gilburg, and Sasha Schrode, and (descending right) David Hsu, Gerald Lopez, and Dean Miller.

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Stentix wins the 2025 Y-Prize

The winning team of Penn Engineering’s annual award for entrepreneurial technology have created a noninvasive mechanism to adjust medical stent positioning using magnetic reconfiguration.

From the William and Phyllis Mack Institute for Innovation Management

Finding the rhythm behind business fundamentals
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Finding the rhythm behind business fundamentals

Wharton undergraduate Grace Gramins finds harmony between music production and business.

From Wharton Stories

Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati is making an impact around the world
Gobhanu Korisepati standing with his arms crossed.

Korisepati is involved in many student clubs on campus, including as president of Penn Microfinance. 

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Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati is making an impact around the world

Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati co-founded the international microfinancing nonprofit Sustaining Women in Financial Turmoil while in high school, and, as a student at Penn, he continues as executive chairman.
How will the workplace change in 2025?
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How will the workplace change in 2025?

The Wharton School’s Peter Cappelli expects incremental changes in the workplace this year, a continuation of bigger trends that began during the pandemic.

From Knowledge at Wharton

Forging pathways to careers in legislation and public policy
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Forging pathways to careers in legislation and public policy

Penn Carey Law’s Legislative Clinic, now in its 28th year, offers students the chance to gain a new perspective by delving into the legislative process by which those laws are crafted.

From Penn Carey Law

Dorothy Roberts on reproductive rights and justice
Dorothy Roberts teaching a class at Penn Carey Law.

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Dorothy Roberts on reproductive rights and justice

PIK Professor Roberts designed her Penn Carey Law course around a reproductive justice framework, which extends far beyond access to abortion.

From Penn Carey Law

What’s the future of cities?
Illustration of a person walking to a building in a city, one side is abandoned, the other side is revitalized.

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What’s the future of cities?

Before COVID-19, major U.S. urban centers were enjoying a resurgence. Now decreased occupancy has downtown economies and municipal budgets feeling the pinch. Wharton faculty research suggests that how cities navigate the next few years could be crucial.

Janine White for Wharton Magazine