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Education, Business, & Law
Seven-Time Water Polo Champions at Penn to Host Ivy League Competition
The University of Pennsylvania Water Polo team really knows how to make a splash. One of the most rigorous collegiate sports clubs, water polo consists of six players and one goalkeeper guarding a net in a pool.
PennSmiles Has Local Children Grinning from Ear to Ear
Kids in West Philadelphia sure do have a reason to smile. For more than a decade, the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine has been providing oral health education, screenings and primary dental care to children at local schools and community agencies.
Four Penn Basketball Fans Paint the Town – and Themselves -- Red (and Blue)
Andrew Wynne, Robert Sharp, Joost Charlow and Ike Newman, four loyal sports fans from the University of Pennsylvania, attended every home basketball game and started a new tradition during the 2011-12 season, giving a new meaning to “body art.”
African Independence Film Screening to Open Penn Africana Studies Conference
The University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Africana Studies and Center for Africana Studies are co-sponsoring an Oct. 17-18 conference on the future of Africana studies to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the department.
Penn’s Paul Goldin Named Fall '13 Institute for Advanced Study Fellow
Paul Goldin, professor of Chinese thought in the East Asian Languages and Civilization Department of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, has received a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study
Penn Celebrates Opening of Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology
The University of Pennsylvania will officially open the region’s premier facility for advanced research, education, and innovative public/private partnerships in nanotechnology on October 4.
Penn, Carnegie Mellon Receive Grant for Transportation Research
The University of Pennsylvania and Carnegie Mellon University have received a $5.65 million U.S. Department of Transportation grant for a joint research center to conduct transportation technology research and development.
Penn’s Field Center Hosts Annual Field of Dreams Luncheon
The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research at the University of Pennsylvania will host its third annual Field of Dreams Luncheon, Friday, Nov. 1, at the College of Physicians, 19 S. 22nd St., Philadelphia.
Penn Student Has Sights on Hollywood
When Disney Animation Studios releases its next feature film in November, the life-like quality of the images in the movie will have been produced, in part, through the work of a student at the University of Pennsylvania.
Penn Engineering's GRASP Lab, Wharton's Mack Institute Take Y-Prize Global
Last year, the GRASP lab at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Wharton School’s Mack Institute helped take cutting-edge robots out of the lab and into the marketplace through the Y-Prize Competition.
In the News
Associated Press
No one is above the law. Supreme Court will decide if that includes Trump while he was president
Kermit Roosevelt of Penn Carey Law says that the Supreme Court should not have taken Donald Trump’s presidential immunity case because an ideologically diverse panel of the federal appeals court in Washington adequately addressed its issues.
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Associated Press
TikTok has promised to sue over the potential U.S. ban. What’s the legal outlook?
Justin (Gus) Hurwitz of Penn Carey Law says that the Supreme Court, given its current composition, would likely uphold a TikTok ban.
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BBC
U.S. Supreme Court to decide if Trump has immunity in election interference case
Kermit Roosevelt of Penn Carey Law says that the Supreme Court may try to issue a measured, unanimous decision in Donald Trump’s politically charged immunity case.
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The Washington Post
Groups sue to block FTC’s new rule barring noncompete agreements
Cary Coglianese of Penn Carey Law says that the current Supreme Court has a majority that’s looking skeptically at the exercise of governing power by administrative agencies like the Federal Trade Commission.
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New York Post
TikTok vows legal fight after Biden signs ‘unconstitutional’ ban: ‘We aren’t going anywhere’
According to Justin (Gus) Hurwitz of Penn Carey Law, courts will likely agree that a TikTok ban is an attempt to address a compelling government interest.
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