This past October, The Water Center at Penn held the fifth annual Careers in the Water Industry event, connecting the next generation of water sector leaders to professional possibilities.
Before coming to Penn, I had never really lived in an environment where English was part of my everyday life. I grew up in Korea and went to university in Japan, so studying in North America was a completely new experience for me. I was excited to join the Penn community, but I was also nervous, especially about my English.
In an interview with Omnia, LPS’ Kristine Rabberman, Gr’98, Assistant Vice Dean and Director of Academic Affairs in the College of Liberal and Professional Studies, discusses beliefs about witches and witchcraft from the postmedieval period to our conflicting portrayals of witches today.
This October, students from the College of Liberal and Professional Studies (LPS) joined the entire Penn community for the seventh annual Climate Week at Penn. Events were focused around this year’s theme “Empowerment and Action” to encourage and inspire people to get involved in climate solutions.
Dr. Jason Dana is a Professor of Practice in Behavioral and Decision Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. His research lies in the area of judgment and decision making and has examined diverse topics such as how people make giving decisions, how they navigate conflicts of interest, lying for personal gain, better statistical estimators for experimental research, and factors that make crowds and markets wise.
LPS Gov kicked off its first event of the academic year with a fall mixer that brought together more than 80 graduate students from across 10 LPS graduate programs. With food, conversation, and a little early-semester breathing room, the evening gave students an opportunity to step outside of their individual programs and get to know the broader LPS community.
Few high school programs include a carefully choreographed Japanese tea ceremony, complete with a tranquil backdrop. But for those in Frederick Dickinson’s East Asian History Academy, offering a partner steaming green tea while sitting on the floor of the Shofuso Japanese Cultural Center in West Philadelphia is all part of the experience.
For clinical research professional James Baraldi (MPhil ’26), the Master of Philosophy in Liberal Arts offered the opportunity to challenge himself while following an intellectual passion that could help transform treatments of cancers of the central nervous system (CNS). “I felt that the MPhil would bring together my broad research interests and help me direct them into a coherent thesis,” he says. “I wanted to come in with questions, not answers, and have room for exploration.”
Take a break and join us for a series of informal, one-hour virtual conversations exploring a current workplace topic through the interdisciplinary lens that has defined Organizational Dynamics for more than 50 years.
Our October 14 event will feature Athira Das, MSOD: AI Adoption in Organizations: A Practical Playbook
Organizational Dynamics Programs at Penn encourage their students—often mid-career professionals—to see themselves as pracademics, or professionals who successfully bridge rigorous research and everyday practice. These practical scholars already possess deep organizational experience and are pursuing graduate study to understand it more deeply. Faculty in this program believe that scholarly thinking and practitioner wisdom don’t compete—they strengthen each other. Your professional life is not background noise; it is evidence.
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