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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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In 2021, it’s nearly impossible to prioritize which bad thing to protect your kid from first
Marion Leary of the School of Nursing wrote an opinion piece about the challenges of parenting amid political upheaval, climate change, and the pandemic, school shootings, and other contemporary threats. “I shouldn’t need my kid home to know she is safe,” she wrote. “We need to get our house in order in this country.”
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Professor who called Dow 20,000 says he’s nervous about trends in inflation that could spark a stock-market correction
Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School said the recent surge in inflation could compel the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates more quickly than anticipated.
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How better funding can increase the number and diversity of doctoral students
Walter G. Ecton of the Graduate School of Education and a Vanderbilt University colleague shared their research on the effects of doctoral-program funding on student diversity. “Given the relative lack of diversity among university faculty, initiatives that attract students from groups that are currently underrepresented in doctoral education carry great benefits for society,” they wrote.
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At the AU Museum, two artists take on a fraught natural world, from different angles
Sculptural work by Rebecca Kamen, a visiting scholar and artist-in-residence in the Department of Physics & Astronomy in the School of Arts & Sciences, is on view at the American University Museum through Dec. 12.
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For iBuyers, the price is right
Gilles Duranton of the Wharton School said the purchase and subsequent rental of single-family homes by investment firms is a kind of arbitrage, in that it will make benefit some but not all people.
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University of Pennsylvania commits $100 million to launch engineering and health center
Penn is committing $100 million to establish a center for interdisciplinary research conducted by the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Perelman School of Medicine.
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Viral TikTok video accuses Zillow and others of manipulating the housing market. Here’s what’s really going on
Gilles Duranton of the Wharton School questioned a viral video claiming that Zillow and other real estate websites are intentionally driving up home prices. “If you could rig the residential housing market that easily, the Realtors would have done it long ago,” he said.
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As vaccination efforts continue, COVID-19 isn’t the most serious threat facing some Philadelphians. Consider gun violence
Jaya Aysola and Lily Brown of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the underreported effects of violence and poverty on Philadelphians’ mental health. “When someone is shot on my street, it might be something that neighbors come out of the house and actually see, or it’s on the news—it’s in the conscious awareness of a lot of people in the community,” Brown said. “In context, having a death from COVID-19, by all accounts it can be a horrific experience, but it’s not documented in the same way.”
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Murders are spiking. Police should be part of the solution
Aaron Chalfin of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about the need for a nuanced evaluation of police work. “The idea that we can reduce the violence we’ve been seeing without any use of the police is not evidence-based; it’s an aspiration, and it’s a high-risk idea,” he said. “A balanced portfolio feels like the lowest-risk strategy to me.”
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Two COVID vaccine pioneers win 2021 Lasker Awards in medicine
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine received the Lasker Award for their research on mRNA, which ultimately lead to the creation of Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccines.