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  • Factual, or warm and fuzzy? Why choosing the right words matters

    At the second annual Behavioral Insights from Text Conference at Wharton, academics from various disciplines came together to share their research on text analysis using natural language processing and related tools.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • Twelve Penn researchers receive 2019 LDI pilot grants

    TheLeonard Davis Institute of Health Economics has awarded twelve 2019 small grants to teams led by LDI Senior and Associate Fellows engaged in health services research. 

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute

  • Is there really wisdom in the crowd?

    Wharton marketing professor John McCoy discusses his research on a better way to crowdsource ideas, and proposes a new solution for crowdsourcing that can help create better, more accurate results. 

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • In Q&A, Allison Hoffman discusses challenges to the Affordable Care Act

    Penn Law professor Allison Hoffman explains the current legal challenges to various provisions of the ACA, and the embattled health care legislation’s future prospects.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law

  • Steven Mills and Greta Wiessner win 2019 Keedy Cup

    Steven Mills and Greta Wiessner ere named the winners of this year’s Edwin R. Keedy Cup, Penn Law’s internal moot court competition, and Wiessner was named Best Oralist.

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  • At Perry World House, PennDesign students learn to influence policy

     Students in the School of Design can take the tools of design to make things better for people and, through a collaboration with Perry World House, apply these ideas to real life, to understand the approaches, the strategies in creating policy.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design

  • An outsiders’ guide to Brexit

    Wharton dean Geoffrey Garrett offers a concise guide to the evolving situation, “using as little Brexit jargon as possible” and lays out four possible outcomes of a full Brexit deal, no deal, a revoking of the Brexit article entirely, or an extension.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • Two Penn Nursing students selected for competitive National Clinician Scholars Program

    Current Ph.D. candidates Shoshana Aronowitz and Amanda Bettencourt will be part of a program that works to cultivate health equity, eliminate health disparities, and achieve higher quality health care at lower cost by training nurse and physician researchers who work as leaders and collaborators embedded in communities, healthcare systems, government, and foundations in the United States and around the world.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Can a carbon tax help curb climate change?

    U.S. Senator Chris Coons and Wharton's Eric Orts and Bernard David, senior fellow with Wharton’s Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership, discuss why a carbon tax would help the environment and the economy.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • Why deaths continue to rise in the opioid epidemic?

    Late last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that more than 70,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2017, a 9.6% increase from 2016. To combat this, policies can focus on reducing the demand for opioids—by improving access to medication-assisted treatment—or reducing the supply of opioids—by increased monitoring and regulation of opioid prescribing. 

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute