NPR

How has the ‘crack cocaine of gambling’ affected Illinois? The state hasn’t bothered to check

Charles O’Brien of the Perelman School of Medicine discussed gambling addiction, saying that “many clinicians have long believed that problem gamblers closely resemble alcoholics and drug addicts, not only from the external consequences of problem finances and destruction of relationships but increasingly on the inside as well.”

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The Wall Street Journal

The NFL player moonlighting as an Ivy League professor

NFL linebacker and Wharton alum Brandon Copeland is co-teaching a financial literacy course with Brian Peterson of the School of Arts and Sciences. “I want you to leave this class feeling a lot more comfortable having these conversations about your money with people,” said Copeland.

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WHYY (Philadelphia)

Penn Museum preserves a little bit of Egypt for display during renovation

The Penn Museum’s Jennifer Wegner and Julian Siggers spoke about the new, temporary exhibit, “Ancient Egypt: From Discovery to Display.” The display, designed to resemble an archeological lab, “was an opportunity for us to bring the public to see how a gallery unfolds,” said Siggers.

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  • PPEH announces 2019 Artist-in-Residence, Roderick Coover

    Visual artist Roderick Coover, the 2019 PPEH Mellon Artist-in-Residence, will conduct collaborative research on the waters of the Delaware Bay and along the shores of the Thames estuary, the North Sea, and English Channel for The Altering Shores, a long-term collaborative transmedia project engaging questions of sea-level rise.

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  • TeleRetina screenings give diabetic patients a clearer picture of risk for blindness

    Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health’s TeleRetina program provides a clearer picture of patients’ risk for retinopathy, which can lead to blindness if left untreated.

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  • Wharton School receives $10 Million gift from Josh and Marjorie Harris

    The Wharton School announced today a $10 million gift from 1986 undergraduate alumnus Josh Harris and his wife Marjorie Harris to establish the Joshua J. Harris Alternative Investments Program to expand co-curricular opportunities for Wharton students in the field and bring together alumni and industry experts through events and programming.

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    • 2.25

    ‘Premonitions’

    AK Thompson, who has written extensively about revolt, joins George Ciccariello-Maher, a visiting scholar at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, for a conversation about Thompson's book of essays, “Premonitions.”

    6:30p.m. - 8:00p.m.

    Penn Book Center, 130 S. 34th St.

  • Nation branding: Which countries ranked highest this year?

    Wharton's David Reibstein discusses the U.S. News and World Report's 2019 Best Countries rankings.

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    • U.S. News & World Report

    Sleep apnea patients who are drowsy during the day at risk for heart woes

    The Perelman School of Medicine’s Diego Mazzotti spoke about his research on sleep apnea and cardiovascular risk. “Even without further research, clinicians should recognize that patients with obstructive sleep apnea who complain of feeling tired when they wake up and sleepy during the day are at greater risk for cardiovascular disease,” Mazzotti said.

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    The Atlantic

    The U.S. teaching population is getting bigger, and more female

    Richard Ingersoll of the School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Education was cited for a study which noted an increasingly disproportionate number of women teaching K-12 in recent years due in part to social perceptions of teaching as “feminine” labor.

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