David Skeel, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, teaches, researches and writes about corporate and bankruptcy law
"For the first time in history, more than half of all Americans own stock. With private Social Security accounts, the percentage would leap to 80 percent or 90 percent. In a world of privatized benefits, a market collapse could be truly catastrophic. A crash that wreaked havoc with large numbers of future retirees' retirement funds and threw already-retired Americans into reduced circumstances would devastate not just the individual workers but also the U.S. economy and Americans' general sense of well being. These are precisely the kinds of risks the government should be anticipating and protecting against."
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Novel plant-based approach to a better, cheaper GLP-1 delivery system
Research led by Penn Dental’s Henry Daniell investigates the use of a lettuce-based, plant-encapsulated delivery platform as a new oral delivery of two GLP-1 drugs previously approved by the FDA in injectable form.
No brain, no gain: Neuronal activity enhances benefits of exercise
Research led by Penn neuroscientist J. Nicholas Betley and collaborators finds that hypothalamic neurons are essential for translating physical exertion into endurance, potentially opening the door to exercise-mimicking therapies.
In honor of Valentine's Day, and as a way of fostering community in her Shakespeare in Love course, Becky Friedman took her students to the University Club for lunch one class period. They talked about the movie "Shakespeare in Love," as part of a broader conversation on how Shakespeare's works are adapted.
In Becky Friedman’s English course Shakespeare in Love, undergraduate students analyze language, genre, and adaptation in the Bard’s plays through the lens of love.
Beating the heat: Designing cooling for bodies in motion
Dorit Aviv, director of Weitzman’s Thermal Architecture Lab, studies how humans, technology, and design intersect, paving the way for the development of novel approaches to cooling people efficiently.
