Proud to be working with the Office of Sustainability an the Hunting Park Heat Team in their efforts to learn about and improve how Philadelphians cope with heat! Exploring ways to cool down neighborhoods vulnerable to the heat https://kywnewsradio.radio.com/articles/summer-heat-beating-down-one-philly-neighborhood-more-others
3 Year Snapshot
This summer completing my 3rd year on the job, I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished! PPE Renewed: Drafted proposals for new course numbering system and revised curriculum, approved by the curriculum committee. PPE Growing: The rising senior class has 160+ students as compared to 99 graduates the year before I started; nearly twice as many students pursue honors; more majors are…
2018 PPE Poster session
So proud of our seniors and their strong research!
Special Thanks to Dan Ariely for the 2018 Goldstone Forum
We’d like to thank Dan Ariely for his exciting talk on The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty at the 2018 Goldstone Forum. Speaking to a packed auditorium in the Penn Museum, Professor Ariely focused on the tension between our desire to conceive of ourselves as honest, the impulse to benefit from cheating or dishonesty, and the role rationalization and conflicts of…
2nd Annual PPE Society Meeting
I would like to thank Paul Hurley (Claremont McKenna College), Steve Simon (Richmond University), Colin Bird (University of Virginia), and Jonny Anomaly (University of Arizona) for joining me on a panel session about Topics in PPE Administration, Logistics and Curriculum. The panel addressed issues from recruiting majors and determining which courses should be led by PPE to approaching allied disciplines…
Penn PPE Refreshed Online
We’ve now completed the refresh of PPE’s online presence! Click on any of the headers to check out the sites! The new PPE site is live! Our Undergraduate Journal, SPICE: Student Perspectives on Institutions, Choices and Ethics, is fully up to date and archived in the Penn Scholarly Commons. This, of course, complements our opt-in honors thesis repository…
Penn SoNG Website is live!
Very proud to have worked with Cristina Bicchieri, Peter McNally and Sez Guilian on the Penn Social Norms Group’s newly launched website! It looks great! Click the logo to check it out:
Happy Holidays Team!
It’s always a pleasure to work with our large (and growing!) team in PPE, Penn SoNG and MBDS!
UPCEA Marketing and Enrollment Management Silver Award
Proud to have worked with a great team to have put together an award winning recruitment plan for Penn’s new (and wildly successful) Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences! Silver Awards Strategic Recruitment Marketing Plan- Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences Contributors: Cristina Bicchieri, Regina Cohen, Tara Hixon, Tomea Knight, Doug Paletta, Rachel Semigran
Thanks for the Shout Out
In case anyone missed Ryan Muldoon’s groundbreaking work on Social Contract Theory for a Diverse World, go check it out! (and don’t stop at the acknowledgements!)