I’ve been so impressed with out cohort of peer advisors this year! If you’d like to join the group and help greet the next class of incoming students, apply to become a peer advisor! Applications due, February 8: https://www.college.upenn.edu/peer-advisors
Author: DOUGLAS PALETTA
Family Weekend 2020!
I’m excited to have participated as a commenter in the Student Research Expo during Family Weekend! Thank you, William Daniels, for your interesting work on Project Exile, and more generally a piece on the history of the relationship between the federal government and policing! You can see the entire research expo here(!): https://www.college.upenn.edu/family-weekend
Former Student: Letters in Limbo
One of my all-time-fave alums, Isabella Cuan, reached out to let me know about a project she’s started (with a team!) called Letters in Limbo. I haven’t written anything yet, but it seems like a really cool project! If you’re interested in submitting a letter, head to the link: https://www.letters-in-limbo.com/ ABOUT As the coronavirus pandemic unfolds, we’ve decided to launch “Letters…
Strong Work Penn!
Global Pandemic? Moving *everything in the College to Virtual in two weeks*? This team doesn’t miss a beat! Strong work students, faculty, and staff (especially my compatriots in the College office!) for Making It Happen!
Peer Advising Program
Excited to join the team organizing the Peer Advising Program! If you’re interested in working with the next generation of Penn students – apply to join the team by Feb 1!
Joining the College Office!
I’m very excited to start the new academic year with a new position: Assistant Dean for Advising in the College office!
SPICE Vol XIV, Issue 1
Very excited to have our first issue of SPICE in 2019 printed in the PPE office and available online. Shout out to Carson Marr, Allen Zhu, Katherine Poole, David Herrera, and Samantha Mashaal for their contributions! Special thanks to Chloe Wilson, Patrick Law, Jay Choi, Annika Iyer, and Julia Hansen for their strong work putting together and editing the issue!
Philadelphia Behavioral Science Initiative in the Daily Pennsylvanian!
One of the goals of Penn is to have an impact in the greater Philadelphia area and GovLabPHL and PBSI (the Philadelphia Behavioral Solutions Initiative) are clear ways of partnering interested and engaged academics with interested and engaged city officials.
–Me!
2018 PBSI Conference!
Special thanks to Anjali and team at GovLabPHL for a great event bringing together city officials, researchers and non-profits to promote evidence based governance and practices!