Louis writes for prominent magazines and journals.
His topics range from business and management, nursing, public health, medicine, science, technology, to popular culture.
His topics range from business and management, nursing, public health, medicine, science, technology, to popular culture.
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Privy Digging in Philadelphia
Inside the Hunt for Artifacts Buried Under Philly’s Oldest Properties
"You never know what you’re going to find in the privy. That’s what Melissa and Matt Dunphy discovered in 2016 after they bought the former Grasso’s Magic Theatre in Old City with plans to transform it into an arts venue. The duo — she’s a classical composer, musician and actress; he’s a sales engineer — certainly expected an adventure. But they didn’t expect the adventure to start with the discovery of a few Revolutionary-era artifacts in the site’s subterranean commode." |
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Shark Tank Comes to Wharton
Reality TV meets Wharton as Shark Tank auditions come to campus.
"If you cast it, they will come. They arrived on a muggy Saturday morning in June—Wharton School students and alumni, engineering majors, even an enterprising Wharton-bound high-school senior. They came bearing samples, prototypes, gadgets and props—jars of seafood sauce, high-tech fashion, fishing gear, medical devices, wearable technology, pro-sports-fan merchandise and a bathroom mirror (more on that later). Bold and ambitious, they came to make their one-minute pitches to producers of ABC’s hit reality series Shark Tank, for a chance to face a panel of celebrity CEOs on the show and vie for their investment capital." |
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The Veterans Health Administration: At the Leading Edge of America’s Health Care
"If you want to see the future, you can start with the VA, America’s largest integrated health system. Penn Nursing faculty and alums are helping forge the path.
What do gps, chariots, and duct tape have in common? They were military innovations that found their way into civilian life–along with the internal combustion engine and the Internet. We all owe a debt to armed forces’ visionaries whose technologies and systems we use every day. " |
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Discovery: Big Data’s Big Promise
From analyzing reams of ones and zeros comes vast potential for new drug discovery
"What do Netflix and Google have in common with biomedical research? They all leverage large datasets to identify trends and make recommendations. While e-commerce engines collect keywords and purchasing histories to recommend everything from antiques to Zumba, researchers participate in groundbreaking big data consortia that help understand diseases and recommend treatments — not by relying on traditional diagnostics, but by analyzing mountains of aggregated data." |