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2021 Keynote Speaker: Katherine Milkman

We are pleased to introduce award-winning researcher and Evan C. Thompson Endowed Term Chair for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, Katherine Milkman, as the keynote speaker for the 2021 Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology.

In addition to the Evan C Thompson Endowed Term Chair for Excellence in Teaching, Milkman holds a secondary appointment at UPenn’s Perelman School of Medicine. She is the recipient of an early career award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences, and has published dozens of articles in social science journals that have reached a wide audience through op-eds in The New York Times and regular coverage in and contributions to such outlets as NPR, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, and Forbes. Her work was also the focus of an entertaining Freakonomics podcast entitled, “When Willpower Isn’t Enough.” Milkman has received multiple excellence in teaching awards at Wharton, and was voted Wharton’s “Iron Prof” in 2013 by the school’s MBA students. She has worked with numerous companies on research and/or consulting, including the American Red Cross and Google.

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