Keeping you up to date with the most recent news from the University of Pennsylvania
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| ‘India front and center’ |
| In a Q&A, Tariq Thachil, new director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), talks about CASI’s legacy and his own research on rapid urbanization and internal migration in India. “CASI puts India front and center,” Thachil says. “To be part of that space and direct that space is just an incredible privilege.” |
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| Solved mystery |
| Maxim Itkin of the Perelman School of Medicine, a specialist in lymphatic disorders, was recently able to cure a patient’s unusual symptoms—with an assist from The New York Times medical mystery column. The relatively straightforward fix relied on a discovery that Itkin himself had made nearly a decade ago. |
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| Supply and demand |
| On Knowledge@Wharton, Benjamin Keys and Caitlin Gorback discuss how foreign investments in American housing markets drive prices up and worsen housing affordability. “One of the real tensions in the U.S. housing market is that the places that are seeing sharp job growth are not creating new housing quickly enough to accommodate that job growth,” Keys says. |
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| Immersive internship |
| Shelby Dugas, a sophomore in the Wharton School from Dallas, says her remote internship managed to completely immerse her in Colombia’s economy and the field of international finance, despite working from her childhood bedroom: “While my knowledge was initially limited, I have now garnered a very clear sense of all that investment banking entails.” |
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| Fighting racism |
| Writing in Nursing Outlook, Dean Antonia Villarruel of the School of Nursing proposes a framework for confronting structural racism in nursing as well as creating sustainable change. “There remain too many examples of structural racism throughout nursing and we must be open to continuing to examine, identify, and change these within our own profession,” she says. |
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Penn in the News
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The potency of sleep
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“Innovation Hub,”WGBH (Boston) | September 11, 2020
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Looking at the effects of sleep on health, Amita Sehgal of the Perelman School of Medicine says, “I think we as a society are getting less sleep now than we should be getting.”
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“The noblest question in the world is: What good may I do in it?” — Ben Franklin
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