A Q&A with Wharton Professor Joel Waldfogel
Wharton Professor Joel Waldfogel isn't opposed to gift giving as a rule. He just objects to "sloppy spending that destroys value." In his new book, "Scroogenomics," he advocates a rethinking of gift giving that could make the giver and the person on the other end of that holiday gift much happier.
Gene therapy improves vision
For the first time, gene therapy has been shown to safely improve vision in children and adults with rare retinal diseases that cause blindness.
Student Spotlight: Christine Nieves
Since June, this Penn senior has co-hosted "En Portada," a public affairs show on Telemundo Philadelphia.
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'Too Big to Fail': Can Regulation Control Systemic Risk?
It is a description that means almost exactly the opposite of what it seems. "Too big to fail" doesn't mean a financial institution cannot fail, but that it cannot be allowed to do so. World’s First Engineered T Cell Receptor Trial Opens with New Cellular Therapy for HIV
The trial may have important implications in the development of new treatments for HIV potentially slowing – or even preventing – the onset of AIDS. Penn Launches Web Site Tracking Research Funded by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Penn has received more than $155 million in research funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, awards that fund 288 studies in gene therapy, robotics, public education, neurological disorders, tobacco’s effect on health and more. Iraq’s Ancient Past: Rediscovering Ur’s Royal Cemetery
The exhibit will bring details of the famous expedition conducted by Penn Museum and the British Museum to life through field notes, photographs and archival documents and more than 220 ancient artifacts unearthed at the excavation. Penn Launches Undergraduate Program in Market and Social Systems Engineering, Nation’s First
The first-of-its-kind program will prepare undergraduate students to shape the technologies that underpin Web search, keyword auctions, electronic commerce, social and financial networks and the novel and unanticipated markets and social systems of the years ahead. » Research at Penn |
