11/15
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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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How to give away a $500,000 comic book collection
Alumnus Gary Prebula and his wife, Dawn, have donated a $500,000 comic book collection to Penn Libraries.
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Reconstructing heritage after war: what we learned from asking 1,600 Syrians about rebuilding Aleppo
In a co-authored survey of residents of the Syrian city of Aleppo, PIK Professor Lynn Meskell identifies four key themes for the reconstruction of heritage sites after conflict.
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Artificial chromosomes for disease modeling
A study by Ben Black of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues used a new technique for synthesizing chromosomes to introduce panels of genes into disease models, facilitating drug testing.
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Harrison White, groundbreaking (and inscrutable) sociologist, dies at 94
Randall Collins of the School of Arts & Sciences and PIK Professor Duncan J. Watts discuss the career of the late Harrison White, a theoretical physicist-turned-sociologist.
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How elections test the Federal Reserve’s independence
Christina Parajon Skinner of the Wharton School says that regionalism at the Federal Open Market Committee is a nod to America’s federalist system of government.
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The western U.S. is sweltering under a ‘heat dome.’ What does that mean?
A study by Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences finds that climate change favors the jet stream behavior that produces stagnant high-pressure systems and the extreme heat and drought associated with them.
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AI tools come with risks. This Wharton professor is teaching ‘accountable AI’
Kevin Werbach of the Wharton School will lead a new fall course to understand and address AI risks and limitations.
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Schiff proposes guaranteed income pilot program for Medicaid recipients to cut federal health spending
A study co-authored by Amy Castro of the School of Social Policy & Practice shows that guaranteed income programs mitigate the negative financial and health consequences associated with income volatility.
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Breast cancer strikes young Black women at alarming rate
Oluwadamilola “Lola” Fayanju of the Perelman School of Medicine analyzes the factors causing breast cancer to affect younger women.
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This is your brain on climate change: How the heating planet causes psychological changes
R. Jisung Park of the School of Social Policy & Practice says that the past decade of research has provided a much more nuanced understanding of how subtle changes in temperature broadly affect human flourishing.