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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Wharton MBA offers deferred admission for non-Penn applicants who want to work first
MBA admissions officer Blair Mannix spoke about the Wharton School’s new deferred admission program, which allows students in their final year of undergraduate or graduate study to apply for a guaranteed spot in a future MBA class, allowing them to work for two to four years prior to enrollment.
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Climate risk in the housing market has echoes of subprime crisis, study finds
Susan Wachter of the Wharton School commented on research that found banks are shielding themselves from climate change related risks by shifting some mortgages, such as those in flood-prone regions, back to the federal government. “The problem they’ve discovered is likely to grow in magnitude and is clearly important, because the taxpayer is on the hook,” she said.
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Penn star running back Karekin Brooks one of six brothers, the small one
Karekin Brooks’ five brothers are all defensive line-sized guys—in his mind, he’s always the small one. In last Saturday’s opener at Delaware, Brooks, known as KK to teammates and coaches, ran 28 times for 158 yards and added three catches for 20 more, pushing him to 11th all-time in rushing, with 2,002 yards.
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Michelle Phan was YouTube’s biggest beauty star. Then she vanished
Emily Hund of the Annenberg School for Communication said beauty vlogger and influencer Michelle Phan “was the first to model how this could be an occupation and career.”
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What's different now that Nancy Pelosi is starting an impeachment inquiry on Donald Trump?
Claire Finkelstein and Michael Gerhardt of the Law School weighed in on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s impeachment-inquiry announcement.
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Penn professor awarded MacArthur genius grant
Emily Wilson of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about being named a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. “I’m excited about the publicity it potentially brings—not to me personally, but to the fields of translation, poetics, history,” she said. “And I hope it’s a way to get other people to engage in those fields.”
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Competition can help overweight people get moving
Mitesh Patel of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about a study he led about the effects of competition on physical activity. “We found that participants were motivated the most by competition, and it encouraged them to create habits that stayed in place once the game was over,” he said.
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A.I. is just as good as medical professionals at spotting disease, study says
Tessa Cook of the Perelman School of Medicine commented on the results of a study exploring the use of artificial intelligence in detecting disease. “Perhaps the better conclusion is that in the narrow public body of work comparing A.I. to human physicians, AI is no worse than humans, but the data are sparse and it may be too soon to tell,” she said.
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How anti-vaccine sentiment took hold in the United States
Alison Buttenheim of the School of Nursing and Paul Offit of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the rise of the anti-vax movement and how the U.S. might move forward.
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Trust in science wavers because of messaging, not method
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and colleagues were cited for their research on public reception of scientific findings. “Researchers can improve the understanding of how the norms of science are honoured by communicating the value of these practices more explicitly and transparently and not inadvertently supporting misconceptions of science,” they wrote.