Ambassador Andrea Canepari is Professor of Practice at Penn State School of International Affairs where he teaches Public Diplomacy. He also teaches Comparative Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. He is Senior Affiliate for the Partnership for Innovation, Cross-Sector Collaboration, Leadership, and Organization (PICCLO) at University of Pennsylvania. Among his several responsibilities as Italian Diplomat (currently on leave), he served as Ambassador in the Dominican Republic and Consul General in Philadelphia.

Model misspecification; Strong cross-sectional or time-series dependence; High-dimensional estimation and inference with machine learning methods

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Throughout her career in higher education, Hitomi Yoshida (Master of Philosophy in Organizational Dynamics ’25) has focused on community needs, engagement, and empowerment. When she decided to return to school for a second, more advanced graduate degree, she looked for an academic opportunity that embodied a similar sense of community and collaboration.

“I’ve wanted to be a doctor since I was 10,” begins Taylor Brothers (Pre-Health ’24). That was the year she dislocated her knee in basketball practice and had an awe-inspiring trip to the orthopedic. “I thought, ‘This is so cool!’” she recalls. The challenging path to a medical career had begun. Following a planned break that she took after college, Taylor searched for a post-baccalaureate pre-health program that would serve as an academic refresher and GPA boost to strengthen her medical school application.