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  • Family separation crisis on US border: How donors can help

    A list of ways your donations can help the nearly 2,000 minors separated from their parents at the border.     

    FULL STORY AT Center for High Impact Philanthropy →

  • Streamlining and accelerating good ideas into the clinic

    The Penn Center for Precision Medicine is working to expand precision medicine practices to a number of fields, including addiction, cardiology, oncology, infectious diseases, psychiatry, and rare diseases. Precision medicine is designed to tailor individual patient care based not just on diagnosis, but genetics and medical history. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Law professors react to SCOTUS ruling on travel ban

     Penn Law professors weigh in on the recent SCOTUS ruling, even arguing that while the ruling is “disappointing,” it is a legitimate practice of the Supreme Court to defer to the branches of the federal government. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →

  • Why the Wayfair ruling won’t hurt online sales

    The Supreme Court has ruled that online retailers must collect sales taxes even in states where they have no physical presence. Several experts analyze the decision and what it means for online shopping. 

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Barbara Fox and Scott Aker, designers of the June 5 memorial

    A Leading by Design discussion with the designers about the creation and unveiling of the memorial, five years to the day since the collapse of the Salvation Army building that killed five people. 

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • Can new economic models improve public policy?

    A Wharton professor reveals his analysis of federal funding for a universal income, and grant programs to incentivize infrastructure upgrades, predicting the outcomes of public policy proposals. 

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Cryptocurrency competition and the U.S. monetary system

    The sudden appearance of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, and other cryptocurrencies has triggered a wave of interest in privately issued monies.

    FULL STORY AT Wharton →

  • How big banks can become too big to fail

    With the rollback of certain Dodd-Frank finance regulations, Wharton finance professor Chaojun Wang examines how concentrated finance markets create too-big-to-fail banks.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Natural gas’ methane problem

    A new study in the journal Science found that methane emissions from the U.S. natural gas sector are about 60 percent higher than the Environmental Protection Agency's  original estimate. 

    FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →

  • University of Pennsylvania Health System CEO Ralph Muller to step down in 2019

    Ralph W. Muller, the CEO of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS), will step down in late June of 2019, after a 17-year tenure that helped establish Penn Medicine as one of the top medical centers in the country.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →