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Wharton graduates first Global Executive MBA cohort
Snapshots of Wharton students across the country and the world.

(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.

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Wharton graduates first Global Executive MBA cohort

Members of Wharton’s first Global Executive MBA cohort reflect on their academic journeys and the opportunities the program’s hybrid design unlocked for them.

Meghan Laska

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Penn Dental Medicine renews MOU with Jagiellonian University Medical College

Penn Dental Medicine renews MOU with Jagiellonian University Medical College

The renewed MOU, signed by Penn Dental Medicine’s Morton Amsterdam Dean, Dr. Mark Wolff, and Penn Dental professor Uri Hangorsky, will further strengthen the partnership, facilitating joint research projects, faculty exchanges, and student programs.

Building resilience on information manipulation

Building resilience on information manipulation

Perry World House convened a conference on “Media, Democracy, and Repression” in February, bringing together policymakers, scholars, researchers, and journalists to examine developments in information manipulation, evaluate the role of local and public media institutions in democracies, and analyze what steps governments, civil society, and others can take to build resilience to foreign and domestic information manipulation and interference.

Perry World House hosts expert roundtable on the margins of the 2025 World Bank and International Monetary Fund spring meetings

Perry World House hosts expert roundtable on the margins of the 2025 World Bank and International Monetary Fund spring meetings

Penn’s Perry World House, the International Peace Institute, and United Nations University hosted an expert roundtable discussion featuring policymakers, academics, and practitioners exploring the steps that multilateral institutions, countries, and subnational actors might take to meet the climate finance ambitions agreed in Baku.

Perry World House conference examines migration and human rights

Perry World House conference examines migration and human rights

Perry World House’s (PWH) annual conference of the Thakore Family Global Justice and Human Rights Program welcomed keynote speaker Amy Pope, director-general of the International Organization for Migration and a PWH distinguished visiting fellow in a conversation with Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein.

Penn leaders-turned-diplomats reflect on American statecraft and foreign policy
Amy Gutmann speaking on stage at Perry World House.

“We all have voice, and we can use it,” Gutmann said, encouraging all American’s to be ambassadors and to “speak up for constitutional ideals of liberty and justice for all.”

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Penn leaders-turned-diplomats reflect on American statecraft and foreign policy

In a conversation at Perry World House event on “Common Sense Diplomacy,” President Emerita Amy Gutmann and former trustee chair David Cohen shared insights and experiences.

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Black Law Student Association explores constitutional law, literacy, and advocacy in South Africa

Black Law Student Association explores constitutional law, literacy, and advocacy in South Africa

This spring, Penn Carey Law’s Black Law Student Association traveled to South Africa to engage in several high-impact activities focused on constitutional law, social justice, and legal education. Each year, the group travels internationally to give back to the Black diaspora and learn about different issues Black communities are facing around the world.

Turning bicycles into an engineering study tool
Penn students riding bikes over a bridge in Amsterdam.

Students explored Amsterdam with a bike tour and even a bicycle scavenger hunt.

(Image: Elizabeth Feeney)

Turning bicycles into an engineering study tool

Penn students explore the Netherlands’ cycling infrastructure and learn about bicycle design principles in Dustyn Roberts’ popular Penn Global Seminar.

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Perry World House hosts Future of Security in the Indo-Pacific workshop

Perry World House hosts Future of Security in the Indo-Pacific workshop

On April 9 and 10, Perry World House hosted leading experts, scholars, and practitioners—including PWH Distinguished Visiting Fellows Mara Karlin and Antonio Carpio and Wolk Visiting Fellow Richard Fontaine—to discuss how Washington will interact with the vast Indo-Pacific region.