Having a Strong Life Purpose Eases the Loneliness of COVID-19 Isolation

Why can some people weather the stress of social isolation better than others, and what implications does this have for their health? New research from Emily Falk found that those who felt their life was guided by meaningful values or goals were more willing to engage in COVID-19 protective behaviors.

Communication
Marketing
Psychology

Consensus and Contagion in Society

Reimagining Healthcare Delivery

Healthcare is in the midst of a seismic shift, sparked by the recognition that patients want and deserve healthcare services on their own terms, accelerated by technological innovation. Bimal Desai makes sense of these changes and forecasts where we are heading.

Pediatrics

Ubiquity of Data

The Opportunities and Dangers of Decentralizing Finance

Decentralized Finance — or DeFi — has experienced explosive growth in the past year. Kevin Werbach spoke with Wharton Business Daily about the opportunities and risks of decentralizing finance.

Legal Studies & Business Ethics

Resilience in Networked Systems

Connecting a star’s chemical composition and planet formation

Along with developing a new statistical method for studying exoplanets, researchers from Penn including Bhuvnesh Jain found that the majority of stars in their dataset are similar to the sun, implying that many stars in the Milky Way could host their own Earthlike planets.

Physics and Astronomy

Ubiquity of Data

From Strategy Class to Jogging Office Hours: Why this Professor Enjoys Teaching EMBA Students

Gad Allon speaks about his EMBA program classes, virtual teaching, and the value of Global Module Courses in this recent interview with the Wharton School.

Operations Information and Decisions

Ubiquity of Data

The Night Sky is the Limit

Bhuvnesh Jain discusses how big data is transforming not only the study of the universe, but much of academia in this Omnia article. "We wanted to erase these boundaries of physical versus biological sciences and so on, and explore data together."

Physics and Astronomy

Ubiquity of Data

Turning Data into Discoveries

A $25 million gift from Harlan M. Stone, C’80, PAR’13 has laid the groundwork for the construction of new Data Science Building at 34th and Chestnut Streets. Vijay Kumar notes that spaces where students and faculty can collaborate, like the ones in the new building, are a vital part of a Penn education.

Computer and Information Science
Electrical and Systems Engineering
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Ubiquity of Data

Transparency and Privacy in Public Rulemaking Dockets

A new ACUS recommendation seeks to balance transparency with privacy when agencies disclose rulemaking comments. Christopher Yoo comments on ACUS’s recommendation in this Regulatory Review op-ed.

Communication
Computer and Information Science
Law

Resilience in Networked Systems

10 Teams Selected for the First Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge

Chris Callison-Burch and his team at Penn were selected to participate in the Amazon Science Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge, the first conversational AI challenge to incorporate multimodal (voice and vision) customer experiences. The year-long competition will conclude in May 2022.

Computer and Information Science

Ubiquity of Data

Vijay Kumar reappointed dean of Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science

Vijay Kumar has been reappointed as the Nemirovsky Family Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science through June 30, 2027. Under Kumar’s leadership during the previous six years, the School has catalyzed growth in engineering health, data science and computation, and energy science and technology.

Computer and Information Science
Electrical and Systems Engineering
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

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Having a Strong Life Purpose Eases the Loneliness of COVID-19 Isolation

Reimagining Healthcare Delivery

The Opportunities and Dangers of Decentralizing Finance

Connecting a star’s chemical composition and planet formation

From Strategy Class to Jogging Office Hours: Why this Professor Enjoys Teaching EMBA Students

The Night Sky is the Limit

Turning Data into Discoveries

Transparency and Privacy in Public Rulemaking Dockets

10 Teams Selected for the First Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge

Vijay Kumar reappointed dean of Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science