Sara Douki

Penn’s most innovative entrepreneurs gathered yesterday to compete for the top prize at PennVention’s final Innovation Fair.

Former Panamanian president Dr. Nicolás Ardito Barletta attracted nearly 200 students to a Huntsman Hall classroom last night. The current Director of the Executive Board of the Bank Superintendence of Panama briefed the students on the Panamanian economy and its role in the increasingly globalized world economy.

A panel of professors offered a multidisciplinary approach to the issue, with Anthropology professor Janet Monge, School of Medicine professor Sarah Tishkoff and Philosophy professor Michael Weisberg.