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Establishing an Office of Religious and Ethnic Inclusion (Title VI) at Penn

The new office ensures that Penn can continue to fulfill its obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to protect students, faculty and staff from discrimination based on their religion, ethnicity, shared ancestry, or national origin.

How food moves around cities

Domenic Vitiello, an urban and regional planning expert, teaches classes that invite students to locations in and around Philadelphia to better understand how its denizens dine.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

She’s an expert on OCD at Penn. It still took a while to recognize the disorder in her five-year-old son

Emily Becker-Haimes of the Perelman School of Medicine shares how she recognized OCD in her son’s behavioral habits.

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Politico.com

Climate cash pours into election swing region. Will it help Harris?

Danny Cullenward of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Weitzman School of Design says that capturing methane to make hydrogen is trading a short-lived pollutant for a permanent pollutant in the form of carbon dioxide.

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ABC News

Here’s why mortgage rates dropped to their lowest level in more than a year

Lu Liu of the Wharton School says that treasury rates have already incorporated expectations for future interest rate cuts because mortgage rates are priced off current treasury rates.

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Bloomberg Law

Ghosts of bankruptcy’s past haunt bills to address J&J, Purdue

According to David Skeel of Penn Carey Law, there’s a growing perception that insider dominance is leading to abuses in the bankruptcy system.

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Politico.com

What the Supreme Court left unsaid about Trump’s criminal immunity

Kate Shaw of Penn Carey Law says that the Supreme Court’s ruling about Donald Trump’s presidential immunity is wrong as a matter of constitutional theory and doesn’t provide anything resembling an administrable test.

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The New York Times

You’ve lost weight taking new obesity drugs. What happens if you stop?

Mitchell A. Lazar of the Perelman School of Medicine says that there’s no “magic bullet” for lowering the dosage of weight-loss medication while keeping the weight off.

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The New York Times

Are we happy yet?

Martin Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences says that thinking about life through the lens of moment-to-moment moods is a recipe for depression and anxiety.

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Bloomberg

Fed rate is ‘far too high’ and needs to come down quickly, Jeremy Siegel says

Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School says that the Federal Reserve is in danger of making another policy mistake by being too cautious.

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CNBC

Jeremy Siegel backs off on calls for the Fed to do an emergency interest rate cut

Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School says that the Federal Reserve should move its key interest rate down to 4% as fast as possible.

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Religion News Service

Whose Christianity do Christian nationalists want?

In an opinion essay, Marci Hamilton of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the religious right is attempting to establish a monolithic “Christian supremacy” that has never existed in the United States.

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