10/23
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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COVID-19 vaccine issues present new challenge for J&J
Cait Lamberton of the Wharton School weighed in on how the FDA’s recommendation to pause distribution of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine will affect the company’s reputation. “I don’t think this is going to be a huge dagger in J&J’s heart,” she said. “They’ve seen this stuff before. They’ve had plenty of product crises.”
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Microsoft bulks up with $16 billion deal for Nuance Communications
PIK Professor Herbert Hovenkamp said Microsoft may be pursing large acquisitions now in case the regulatory environment becomes more restrictive in the future. “It’s a bit like gun control,” he said. “As soon as somebody is sniffing around about increasing legislation, everyone goes out and buys guns.”
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‘Invisible Beauty: The Art of Archaeological Science’ review: More than meets the eye
A Penn Museum exhibition featuring scientific images of ancient artifacts was reviewed.
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AppleCare and other phone protection plans: Who should—and shouldn’t—buy them
Howard Kunreuther of the Wharton School said consumers often buy phone-protection plans in spite of the low risk of damage. “These are low-probability events by definition. That’s why money is being made by Apple and others,” he said. “People focus on the consequences, and they don’t think about the probability.”
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‘Just a start’
Sylvain Catherine of the Wharton School and a University of Chicago colleague argued that “untargeted” student debt forgiveness wouldn’t do much to benefit low-income earners. “Households in the top 30% of the earnings distribution receive almost half of all dollars forgiven,” they wrote.
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College athletes have Tuesday off to vote. College football coaches are not happy
Athletics Director M. Grace Calhoun spoke about the NCAA’s decision to make Election Day an official day off. “We know it represented the voice of student-athletes across the country who continue to express a desire to increase their civic engagement at local, state, and federal levels,” she said.
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Hate waiting in line? New research may help things move faster
Hummy Song of the Wharton School spoke about the merits of a dedicated-queue system in managing line lengths. “We usually think about queues from the customer’s point of view, but there is another human on the other end of that line,” she said. “Encouraging customer ownership by dedicating assignments to each server when planning queue configurations might shorten the wait and service time.”
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Thousands of American troops to take part in COVID-19 early-detection study
PIK Professor Jonathan Moreno commented on plans to conduct a COVID-19 early-detection study on U.S. troops. “Should we ask for consent if it reveals medical issues that a person in uniform may not want revealed and is not relevant to job performance?” he asked.
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U.S. medical school applications soar in COVID-19 era
Admissions Dean Neha Vapiwala of the Perelman School of Medicine said some medical schools are waving prerequisites to accommodate students who may have been unable to participate in extracurricular activities earlier this year.
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College admissions in a COVID year: SATs are out, personal stories are in
Dean of Admissions Eric Furda offered advice about writing college admissions essays amid the pandemic. “Students should explain as well as they can the context of their lives during COVID,” he said. “That means hunting deep for insight about how COVID affected them, how they were able to derive meaning from it, how it will impact them moving forward.”