11/15
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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A boomer with $50,000 in student loans voted for Trump in the last election. But with Biden’s new repayment plan blocked, she’s considering supporting a Democratic ticket
An estimate from the Wharton School found that the SAVE plan for student loan repayment could cost $475 billion over 10 years.
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A blood test accurately diagnosed Alzheimer’s 90% of the time, study finds
Jason Karlawish of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on a study which found that a blood test could correctly identify patients with Alzheimer’s.
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Kamala Harris ignores Hillary Clinton’s playbook
Nancy J. Hirschmann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the notion of a first female, South Asian, or Black woman president is the last thing on anyone’s mind given the danger that a second Donald Trump presidency poses to democracy.
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Shedding light on cellular metabolism to fight disease
Yihui Shen of the School of Engineering and Applied Science talks about her newly established lab where she aims to advance the molecular precision of coherent Raman imaging to allow researchers to understand the minutia of metabolism and open doors to new cancer treatments and therapies.
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Double mastectomies do not improve breast cancer survival likelihood for most women, study finds
Angela DeMichele of the Perelman School of Medicine says that chemotherapy and hormonal therapies are important for combating breast cancer because they’re designed to kill spreading cells.
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You’re not going to get value moving until the Fed drops rates, says Wharton’s Jeremy Siegel
Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School discusses the latest market trends, what to expect from June’s PCE inflation data, and the impact on the Fed’s interest rate decision.
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Yes, money can buy happiness—the more wealth you have, the happier you get, research finds
A study by Matthew Killingsworth of the Wharton School finds that the correlation between money and happiness rises to even higher levels for the extremely rich.
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Could Harris’s abortion advocacy be a U.S. election game changer?
Marc Trussler of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the selection of J.D. Vance as the Republican vice presidential candidate will make it harder for Donald Trump to act as a moderate on the issue of abortion.
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If you get an offer to buy a carbon offset, experts say this is what you should know
Danny Cullenward of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Weitzman School of Design says that a carbon offset represents a promise that someone’s money is going toward an action that will reduce or remove planet-heating pollution.
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Breast cancer survival not boosted by double mastectomy, study says
Angela DeMichele of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on a study which found that breast cancer survival is not boosted by a double mastectomy.