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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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The housing market is fueling our collective climate denial
Billy Fleming of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design said the U.S. needs to take action when it comes to preparing for climate change. “Every day we do not spend organizing communities around this question of ‘how do we leave and where do we go?’ is just making all of these other decisions harder and more expensive down the road.”
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Rare earth minerals could be sourced through outdated smartphones, batteries, wind turbines
Eric Schelter and colleagues from the School of Arts and Sciences developed a method to extract rare earth minerals used in high-tech gadgets using common lab equipment.
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At the National Security Council, Trump loyalists are at war with career aides
John Gans of Perry World House wrote about the National Security Council, which he argues has become a battleground for the administration’s political ideology.
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Three MBA admissions heads explain why record numbers of women are going to business school
Blair Mannix of the Wharton School spoke about the business school’s supportive environment. “People on the outside of the community and culture think it’s a competitive environment, but if you speak to anyone who’s a member of it, it’s extremely collaborative,” she said.
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The Hong Kong situation can ‘absolutely’ derail US-China talks: Prof
Mauro Guillén of the Wharton School spoke about the potential international economic effects of political unrest in Hong Kong, as well as the state of the U.S.-China trade war. “Both sides are trying to look for a way to save face … because they have escalated so much,” he said.
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Pennsylvania moves closer to overhauling child sex crime laws after Senate passes ‘historic’ reforms
Marci Hamilton of the School of Arts and Sciences critiqued a proposed amendment that would extend the statute of limitations for survivors of childhood sexual abuse to age 30. “That is not a meaningful age limit for the vast majority of adult women, and we have been working since 2005 for the child victims to get a window,” she said.
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Critics say ‘junk plans’ are being pushed on ACA exchanges
Allison Hoffman of the Law School spoke about short-term health insurance plans that are less comprehensive than those approved by the Affordable Care Act and are paid for without government subsidies. “For most of the people buying on the exchanges, this would be worse than what they’ve been buying, especially because the majority of people who buy on exchanges get help with their premiums,” she said.
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What to know about lists of financially challenged colleges
Robert Zemsky of the Graduate School of Education spoke about the silence from colleges and universities experiencing institutional financial difficulties. “The problem is we’re in a period of time when higher education feels itself increasingly the victim,” he said. “The victim of both public policy but also public discourse. As an enterprise, it doesn’t know how to handle that.”
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Algorithms were supposed to make Virginia judges fairer. What actually happened was far more complicated
Aurélie Ouss of the School of Arts and Sciences praised a study that proved that algorithms are imperfect tools when it comes to predicting crime. She said that, ultimately, the usefulness of algorithms in criminal justice comes down to implementation: “It may be a case that a different tool that’s designed differently—that judges use differently—would yield different results.”
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These activists are training every movement that matters
Daniel Gillion of the School of Arts and Sciences said protests inspired by Momentum’s activist methodology “are becoming very mainstream; these are not fringe events.” However, he said, if there are too many protests, the public may begin to tune out.