Education, Business, & Law

Interest in Building a Strong Vocabulary Pays Off for Student at Penn

For Betty Hsu an idea about how to strengthening one’s vocabulary became a rewarding lesson. While at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, she created ProfessorWord, an online application that helps to boost vocabulary development.

Penn Lightbulb Café: Emily Owens on ‘Immigration Policy, Informality and Criminal Behavior’

WHO: Emily Owens Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology

'Shared Vision' Opens at Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery

The Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania presents Shared Vision: The Myron A. and Anne Jaffe Portenar Collection. It opens to the public on Saturday, July 19, 2014.

In Penn’s Stouffer College House, Students Get a Touch of Home

This is the first in a series of articles about families living in the University of Pennsylvania’s College House system.

Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher of Penn Receives 2014 Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award

Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher, associate director of the International Educational Development Program at the Graduate School of Education of the University of Pennsylvania, has earned the Comparative and International Education

Penn Study: Massive Open Online Courses Not a Threat to Traditional Business Schools

Data from a University of Pennsylvania study of massive open online courses offered by Penn’s Wharton School suggest that MOOCs aren’t a threat to traditional business programs, but rather an opportunity to expand to underserved markets. The findings were published today in the Harvard Business Review.

Penn Libraries to Host Digital Humanities Conference

WHO: University of Pennsylvania Libraries and PhillyDH WHAT: PhillyDH@Penn, a digital humanities, participant-led conference WHEN: Friday, June 20, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.WHERE: Van Pelt Library

The University of Pennsylvania Announces Gift to Name the Home of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology

The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania and the School of Engineering and Applied Science are pleased to announce a gift of $7.5 million to name the home of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology (M&T Program).

University of Pennsylvania Establishes Penn Center for Innovation

President Amy Gutmann today announced the launch of the Penn Center for Innovation, a new initiative that will provide the infrastructure, leadership and resources needed to transfer promising Penn inventions, know-how and related assets into the marketplace for the public good.

Practicing What She Teaches, Penn Alum Is Award-winning Film Editor

When the winners of the 2013 Peabody Awards for excellence in broadcasting were announced late last month, Nancy Novack, a University of Pennsylvania alum and a lecturer of fine arts in the School of Design, had cause to celebrate. A film series she edited, the PBS TV documentary “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates Jr.” won a Peabody.

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