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Education, Business, & Law
Penn English Professor Awarded Janus Pannonius Prize for Poetry
Charles Bernstein, a University of Pennsylvania English professor, is the recipient of the 2015 Janus Pannonius Grand Prize for Poetry, along with Guiseppe Conte of Italy.
Exploring Family Roots Through Penn
Kristen Kelly exudes confidence as she quickly strides across the University of Pennsylvania campus. Through her academic pursuits and the relationships she’s developed at Penn, the native Philadelphian is comfortable with her multi-racial identity and with her place in the world.
Penn Social Policy & Practice's Voices for Votes: Real Talk on the Key Social Justice Issues for '16 Election
PHILADELPHIA, PA – On Saturday, September 19 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) will be hosting “Voices for Votes: Real Talk on the Key Social Justice Issues for the 2016 Presidential Election.”
Engineering Sophomore at Penn Researches Deception and Humor in Business
As students, engineers-to-be rarely get a chance to examine topics in business psychology, but Mark Liam Murphy, a sophomore from Wilmington, N.C., spent his first summer on campus at the University of Pennsylvania doing just that.
Stanton Wortham Appointed Faculty Director of the Penn Online Learning Initiative
Stanton Wortham has been named faculty director of the Online Learning Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania, effective Sept. 1. He is the Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor in Penn’s Graduate School of Education. The announcement was made by Provost Vincent Price and Beth Winkelstein, vice provost for education.
PennApps Brings World's Largest Collegiate Hackathon to Wells Fargo Center Sept. 4-6
Two thousand of the world’s top young coders will descend on the Wells Fargo Center from Friday, September 4 to Sunday September 6, battling for over $30,000 in prizes at the world’s largest collegiate hackathon: PennApps.
The University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School Announce Additional Gift from Barry R. Lipman to Enhance the Lipman Family Prize
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is delighted to announce a leadership gift from Barry R.
Penn Student Travels to Israel for Eye-opening Lessons in Civil Society
Amidst the religious, political and social unrest in Israel, one student from the University of Pennsylvania got a look at a diverse group of learners who explored the possibilities for a peaceful coexistence.
I-Corps Puts Penn Startups In Drive
It’s a crash course in business skills, Peter Gebhard says, while summing up his experience so far with Innovation Corps, or I-Corps, an accelerator program supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
PennDesign Team announced as the 1st Prize Winner for Vertical Cities International Design Competition
Over the course of the summer, six PennDesign students developed two alternate proposals as submittals for the Vertical Cities Asia International Design Competition, an event organized by the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the World Future Foundation.
In the News
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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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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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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