Through
4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School discusses the unpredictability of the current AI development ecosystem, why AI’s “apocalyptic” capabilities are overrated, and the need for government to set clear regulatory guidelines around AI.
Penn In the News
Peter Conti-Brown of the Wharton School says that the Federal Reserve’s vice chair of supervision, Michael Barr, needs to be an aggressive leader when creating policy precedents.
Penn In the News
College of Arts and Sciences third-year Anusha Mathur from Los Angeles explores how the once-remote beach village of Playa Venao in Panama is grappling with the environmental and community costs of newfound prosperity.
Penn In the News
Research by Steve Viscelli of the School of Arts & Sciences in 2018 suggested that ubiquitous autonomous trucks could squeeze unionized workforces like the United Parcel Service.
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Research by Daniel Garrett of the Wharton School shows that a Texas law banning business with banks that have ESG policies is driving down competition for borrowing and costing taxpayers millions in extra interest.
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Marci Hamilton of the School of Arts & Sciences says that there’s a strong argument for religious exemptions from abortion bans because those bills were initially passed for religious reasons.
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A Penn Medicine study found that Pandemic-era Medicaid rules resulted in coverage for more than 655,000 additional children.
Penn In the News
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that the CDC’s handling of the monkeypox crisis has been a public health success.
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Rachel Werner of the Leonard Davis Institute, the Wharton School, and the Perelman School of Medicine says that cost implications vary across the different provisions of a new bipartisan Medicare financing bill.
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A study by Emily Conant of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues finds that 3D mammograms are more effective at detecting breast cancer than standard tests, particularly for women between 40 and 69 and those with dense breast tissue.