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The Arbour Way Foundation commemorates launch with significant gifts to the University of Pennsylvania’s Venture Lab and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
The Arbour Way Foundation has made a $10 million commitment to the Wharton School’s Venture Lab to establish a dedicated health care entrepreneurship vertical for students, with remarks from President Liz Magill.
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Why do businesses keep raising their prices?
As business raise their prices during times of inflation, consumers become accustomed and thus more receptive to the hikes, says John Zhang of the Wharton School.
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Consumer impact if Credit Card Competition Act of 2023 passes
A 2019 study from Penn Carey Law found that consumers haven’t benefitted from the Durbin Amendment to the Dodd-Frank Act.
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Fox News is full-on denying the wildfire crisis
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that Canada’s exceptionally intense wildfire season this year corresponds with a trend of weather patterns that is making the country hotter and drier.
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Heat is coming: Why 2x as many days will be hot in Asbury Park this summer
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the record Northwestern heat wave and last summer’s unprecedented “heat dome” wouldn’t have happened if not for human-caused warming.
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His baby gene editing shocked ethicists. Now he’s in the lab again
Kiran Musunuru of the Perelman School of Medicine says that Chinese geneticist He Jiankui crossed ethical lines and exhibited bad science by editing babies’ genes.
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Strong demand helps Brown-Forman thwart high materials costs
Z. John Zhang of the Wharton School says that companies want to make upscale versions of their products during an inflationary period to reach wealthy and middle-class consumers.
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New station renderings: Building a cost-effective subway on Roosevelt Boulevard
In an Op-Ed, Weitzman School of Design doctoral candidate Jay Arzu discusses a new design for streamlined, cost-effective stations that would alleviate financial concerns surrounding the long-delayed Roosevelt Boulevard Subway in Philadelphia.
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Taurine may extend life and health, scientists find
Joseph Baur of the Perelman School of Medicine and med student Joseph McGaunn caution that a singular focus on increasing dietary taurine risks driving poor nutritional choices.
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Nutrient taurine might help extend life, animal studies show
Joseph Baur of the Perelman School of Medicine explains why recent taurine studies only show a correlation, not a cause and effect.