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When Wharton MBA student Scott Ames was traveling with his fiancée in Washington. D.C. last fall, a simple ear infection sparked the idea for an innovative healthcare startup.Ames’ fiancée was experiencing ear pain and the only way to get an antibiotic so far away from home was to wait three hours at an urgent care center and pay a hefty bill.

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Penn for Immigrant Rights just received their first round of applications for their scholarship that is open to students regardless of their legal status. The DP takes a look at how they built the scholarship.


Penn for Immigrant Rights just received their first round of applications for their scholarship that is open to students regardless of their legal status. The DP takes a look at how they built the scholarship.



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When Wharton MBA student Scott Ames was traveling with his fiancée in Washington. D.C. last fall, a simple ear infection sparked the idea for an innovative healthcare startup.Ames’ fiancée was experiencing ear pain and the only way to get an antibiotic so far away from home was to wait three hours at an urgent care center and pay a hefty bill.



"Ebola in Ghana" by European Commission DG ECHO is licensed under CC BY 2.0

As the Ebola outbreak continues to devastate Western Africa, various groups at Penn have contributed to the conversation and looked internally at infectious control in the event that the outbreak reaches America.







Future career women at Penn, take a moment and see what you may encounter in the world of business.Jessica Kennedy, a former Legal Studies and Business Ethics researcher of Wharton, revealed in her study with two other researchers from UC Berkeley that women are lied to in negotiations more often than men.







A crop of new professors will join the School of Arts and Sciences for the academic year. The school has appointed 22 new members to its faculty across several departments.New professors in the Earth and Environmental Science Department include associate David Goldsby, assistant Lauren Sallan and Reto Gieré, who joins Penn from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Germany.



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