Penn in the News

“This policy energy reflects a profound concern with what technology is doing to us,” says Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences, who worked on a study focusing on U.S. school cellphone bans.

“The demand for memory chips and the extraordinary prices we’re seeing here — the profit margins that these companies are getting for these memory chips — are unprecedented,” says Benjamin Lee of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. “I haven’t seen this for 20–30 years since I’ve started working in this space.”

“The findings provide some of the clearest human evidence to date that anti-amyloid therapies may limit the accumulation of tau and slow the brain changes that lead to memory loss and cognitive decline,” says David Wolk of the Perelman School of Medicine.

Rene Vidal of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences says CAMI, Computerized Assessment of Motor Imitation, "...is a much more fine-grained motor assessment than is usually done in the current standardized test" in autism evaluations.

According to Xiaoxia Summer Dong of the Weitzman School of Design, research confirms that service improvements have a greater positive effect on transit usage than small relative price changes.

Sync Labs, a healthcare startup founded by Melanie Herbert of the School of Engineering and Applied Science as an undergraduate, is highlighted. Lori Rosenkopf of the Wharton School discusses how AI lowers barriers to entry for young entrepreneurs.

When embarking on the college application process, Dean Whitney Soule says, "One place for a student to feel somewhat grounded is that they are going to stand out because they are not like anybody else in the world."

Speaking on nonprofit marketing, Americus Reed of the Wharton School says, “...if you are hiding from being a brand, you are making a mistake. Your brand is out there anyway.”

Debbie Mandell of the School of Veterinary Medicine says, "If the pavement is hot when you put your hand on it, then it will burn their pads and feet. Keeping them on grassed areas, carrying them to grassed areas if possible or limiting time on pavement, especially avoiding asphalt, are options."

"It's affordability across the board. It's not just the price of the home and the mortgage,” says Susan Wachter of the Wharton School.