April 2024 – Edition 31
The dean travels the world with the Wharton Impact Tour, a faculty member earns the Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Professorship, and Wharton Global Youth offers a new online program for teens.
Looking Back on This Year’s Impact Tour
From Seattle to Seoul — and several stops in between — Dean Erika James has been busy traveling the world to connect with all of you and share her vision for the School through the Wharton Impact Tour. She’s had a star-studded lineup of guests join her on stage, including the legendary Jeremy Siegel and T-Mobile President and CEO Mike Sievert, W’91.
Sarah E. Light Receives Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Professorship
Sarah E. Light’s “pathbreaking research and teaching” has earned her the Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Professorship, the University of Pennsylvania’s Interim President Larry J. Jameson and Wharton’s Dean Erika James announced last month.
Rising to her position as a full professor of legal studies and business ethics last year, Light has been a Wharton faculty member since 2013. Light’s research focuses on climate and environmental law and policy and private environmental governance.
Dr. Mitchell J. Blutt, C’78, M’82, WG’87, and Mrs. Margo Blutt have generously established Presidential Professorships at the three Penn schools Dr. Blutt attended: the Wharton School, Penn Arts and Sciences, and the Perelman School of Medicine.
Wharton Global Youth
Rolls Out New Online Finance Program
This summer, high school students will participate in a new two week-long online learning opportunity: Wharton Global Youth Program’s Financial Decision Making. Powered by donors, it will introduce students to fundamental financial principles, with a curriculum developed by Wharton’s Professor David Musto, an expert in capital markets and a champion of youth financial empowerment. This important school program is still accepting applications through May 1.