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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Finding Which Doctors Are in Obamacare Networks Is Difficult
Daniel Polsky of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School and Janet Weiner of Medicine are highlighted for studying how many doctors were in the health-insurance networks available to customers receiving health-care via the Affordable Care Act.
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What Uber Can Learn From Airbnb’s Global Expansion
Gerald Faulhaber of the Wharton School says, “Any government can shut you down, so you have to be willing to play the regulatory game.”
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TCNJ Creating New STEM Complex
The College of New Jersey is about to give a big boost to its science and tech facilities. New buildings for the Ewing school’s science programs — anchored by an 89,000-square-foot STEM center — will increase TCNJ’s science-related space by nearly 60 percent when construction is complete in August 2017. Altogether, the project will cost more than $75 million, the school said, with $40 million coming from the “Building Our Future Bond” approved by voters in 2012 for capital projects at colleges in the state.
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Video: Seeking Happiness at Work? Try These Simple Practices to Turn It Around
Martin Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on how the heart can benefit from happiness.
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Embedded Conflicts
The Human Terrain System set off intense debates among anthropologists and other social scientists when the U.S. Army in 2005-6 introduced the idea of embedding scholars with military units in Iraq and Afghanistan. In theory, the scholars would help the military understand ethnic groups that were mysterious to soldiers, potentially saving the lives of Americans and those who lived in the region. But from the program's start, many anthropologists and others saw the program as a violation of their disciplines' ethical standards.
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Technology Experts Hit Back at FBI on Encryption
Matthew Blaze of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is cited for contributing to a paper about encryption.
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Harvard Asian-American Bias Complaint Dismissed
The U.S. Education Department dismissed a complaint against Harvard University alleging the school discriminated against Asian-American applicants. The government dismissed the suit on June 3 because a similar lawsuit is being considered in federal court. The dismissal was reported earlier Tuesday by Bloomberg.
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Bala Cynwyd Woman to Be Honored at White House
Emily Kramer-Golinkoff of the Perelman School of Medicine is featured for being honored as one of nine “Champions of Change” by the White House.
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Dirty Money
Louis Rulli of the Law School comments on a case against the Philadelphia district attorney and Pennsylvania’s civil forfeiture law.
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Rule on Financial Products Draws Criticism, Praise
Virtually every college, company, advocacy group and other party that commented on proposed new federal rules on campus financial products by last week's deadline asserted that it had students' best interests at heart.