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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Housing Authority Raised $9.5 Million From Property Auctions
John Kromer of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted for authoring a report that shows that the Philadelphia Housing Authority has raised millions from property auctions.
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Bleary-eyed Doctors May Be Better for Patients
David Asch of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School co-authors an article about the length of physician shifts and whether or not that impacts their ability to treat patients.
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Tech Company Will Pay $750 Million to End Patent Fight With Carnegie Mellon
The Marvell Technology Group and Marvell Semiconductor Inc. will pay $750 million to end a long-running patent dispute with Carnegie Mellon University, the university announced on Wednesday. Carnegie Mellon sued in 2009, alleging that the company had infringed a pair of university patents based on the work of a professor and a former student. In 2012 a federal jury awarded the university more than $1 billion in damages, but the case has been through several rounds of appeals since then.
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A Dangerous Loophole in Federal Law Is Putting Women’s Lives at Risk
Susan Sorenson of the School of Social Policy & Practice comments on domestic violence victims being at the highest risk of homicide when they are leaving a relationship.
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Could Obama Lean Right to Replace Scalia?
Kermit Roosevelt of the Law School comments on the process of replacing the late Supreme Court Justice Scalia.
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Study: Penn Has $14.3B Economic Impact
Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli is quoted about Penn’s economic impact report.
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3-D Mammograms Cut False-positive Rates, Study Finds
Emily Conant of the Perelman School of Medicine discusses 3-D mammograms.
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UMass Lifts Lockdown After Report of Armed Man on Campus
The University of Massachusetts at Amherst issued a shelter-in-place order Thursday evening after getting reports of a hostile armed man in a dormitory on campus. A spokesperson for the university did not immediately respond to a request for more information Thursday evening, but university officials had warned students and others on campus, through social media, to stay where they were.
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‘Girls, I’m on Your Team’: Caitlyn Jenner Speaks at Penn
An interview with Caitlyn Jenner, hosted by SPEC, is featured.
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Analysis - Puerto Rico May Have Better Chance of Supreme Court Win After Scalia Death
David Skeel of the Law School is quoted.