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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Is Madison’s guaranteed-income pilot program funded by taxpayers?
Research centers at Penn will survey participants after a 12-month guaranteed income pilot program to gauge its impact.
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Penn study debunks myth about increased suicide during holidays
Dan Romer discusses the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s recent study noting the frequency of false reports that suicides increase around the holidays.
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America’s blueprint for urban inequity was drawn in Philly. It failed Black Philadelphians
Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta of the Weitzman School of Design sees an opportunity for Philadelphia to reset with an antiracist foundation, using Sankofa urban planning to incorporate Black history as a guide toward the future.
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Foundations, major donors tackle nation’s nursing shortage
A $125 million gift from alumnus Leonard Lauder has created a tuition-free program at the School of Nursing that will eventually train 40 nurse practitioners each year for decades to come.
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Four Philadelphia-area health care executives ranked among industry’s 100 most influential people
Penn Medicine CEO Kevin Mahoney is recognized for his leadership and impact on the health care industry.
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People lost more weight when they were offered cash incentives
Colleen Tewksbury of the School of Nursing says that financial incentives could bolster tracking tools to help keep patients engaged with their weight loss.
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Bribing folks can help them meet weight-loss goals, study finds
Karen Glanz of the Perelman School of Medicine says that financial incentives for weight-loss would only be impactful if people could keep losing weight at the same rates over a longer term.
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Don’t assume China cannot change
In an Op-Ed, Amy E. Gadsden of Penn Global urges Western policymakers and analysts to rethink the assumption that China cannot change its slide toward greater authoritarianism.
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Artists and Penn Ph.D.s collabed to explore the intersection of art and engineering. Check out their exhibit
In the culminating project of Penn’s Robotics Art Residency, three artists hosted at the Pennovation Center developed collaborative exhibits with Ph.D. students at the GRASP Lab of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Weitzman School of Design.
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Suicide doesn’t increase during the holidays, but the media perpetuates that myth, new Penn study finds
An analysis from the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that more than half of media references to the “holiday-suicide myth” last year failed to debunk it, with quotes from Dan Romer.