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  • What will Maduro’s re-election mean for Venezuela?

    An arguably sham election prompts a political scientist at Penn to discuss the country's current crisis, and whether a regime change is the solution. 

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  • Eva Anadioti among 40 Under 40 Honorees

    Penn Dental Medicine’s Eva Anadioti has been recognized by two independent organizations as one of their 2018 40 Under 40 honorees. Both the Greek America Foundation and the Philadelphia Business Journal selected Anadioti for these annual awards.

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  • Network Synergy: a new way to value mergers and acquisitions

    Two Wharton papers consider the less-beaten path of forming a partnership between two companies rather than a merger and acquisition may create a more valuable partnership of “network synergy” rather than separate internal synergies.

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  • Transplantation pioneer receives Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology

    Dr. Ali Naji, the J. William White Professor of Surgical Research at the Perelman School of Medicine wins one of the highest honors for a transplant surgeon-scientist as an esteemed kidney and pancreas transplant surgeon, immunologist, and researcher.

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  • Black in white space

    Black people still feel the need to tread lightly, or not at all, in “white spaces” in light of recent discriminatory attacks and arrests. 

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  • Can bundled payments help control health care costs?

    New research out of the Perelman School of Medicine shows that bundled Medicare payments effectively reduced costs and improved the quality of health care. It may be key to slowing or even reversing the rise of health care costs in the country.

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  • Dental student Samaneh Mojarrad receives Student of the Year Award

    The Journal of Clinical Orthodontics (JCO) recently announced the selection of Dr. Samaneh Mojarrad (GD’18), a Penn Dental Medicine orthodontics resident and Master of Science in Oral Biology (MSOB) candidate, as the winner of the 2018 Eugene L. Gottlieb JCO Student of the Year Award. Dr. Mojarrad was chosen over 21 other students from schools around the United States in a two-stage competition judged by members of the JCO editorial board.

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  • Why monarchies rule when it comes to standard of living

    A Wharton management professional finds that despite individual big-ticket taxpayer items like a royal wedding, the long-term effects of monarchies are good for economies. 

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  • Lowering drug prices: will the cost outweigh the cure?

    Experts at Wharton and Drexel analyze whether lowered prescription drug costs will be damaging to future drug research and manufacturing, and what is more important in the short and long-term for patients. 

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  • APPC and iCivics team up on game to teach media literacy

    The Annenberg Public Policy Center has partnered with iCivics, the education nonprofit founded by Sandra Day O’Connor, to create a free online game that teaches students and adults to recognize “fake news.”

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →