11/15
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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App’s brilliant Trump-Harris election night ad helps it skyrocket in popularity
Americus Reed of the Wharton School says that successful marketing needs to meet the consumer at the right time with the right message.
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What a Trump presidency might mean for Mayor Adams’s criminal case
Claire Finkelstein of Penn Carey Law comments on the incoming presidential administration and the legal woes of the New York City mayor.
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Trump has promised lower interest rates. That will be largely out of his control
Kent Smetters of the Wharton School says that the Federal Reserve doesn’t have as much control over mortgage rates and longer-term loans as it used to.
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California air regulators approve changes to climate program that could raise gas prices
Danny Cullenward of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Weitzman School of Design says that many things being credited in California’s new climate program don’t help the climate.
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Stocks soared on news of Trump’s election. Bonds sank. Here’s why
Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School expects that worry over Donald Trump enacting tax cuts will cause bond yields to rise.
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Donald Trump’s election win will create a DEI reckoning that forces companies to either stand up for their policies or ‘step away’
Stephanie Creary of the Wharton School says companies that rolled back their DEI initiatives under pressure likely didn’t understand them fully and weren’t prepared to explain and defend them.
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FAFSA: Short-term pain on enrollments, but hope of long-term gain
Laura Perna of the Graduate School of Education says that last year’s FAFSA delays caused confusion and challenges that have had effects on this year’s enrollment intake.
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Stop treating students like babies
Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education organized an in-person 2016 discussion between Penn students and Republican students at Cairn University to foster productive conversation and find common ground.
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CAR-T cell therapies show promise for autoimmune diseases
Daniel Baker, a Ph.D. student in Carl June’s lab at the Perelman School of Medicine, discusses the results of a study on donor CAR-T cell therapy.
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Why planning for retirement is hard, and what to do about it
Research by Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School and colleagues finds that low-income workers aren’t incentivized to learn about supplements to retirement income like IRAs and 401(k)s, since they tend to rely on and benefit more from fixed-income retirement sources like Social Security payments.