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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Philanthropist, entrepreneur, and alumna Laurene Powell Jobs addressed graduating Penn students at this year’s Commencement ceremony. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. And while you're doing it, love who you do it for and love who you are while you do it,” she said.
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Karen Weaver of the Graduate School of Education wrote about how the merging of six of Pennsylvania’s state colleges will affect student athletes.
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Research by Britta Glennon of the Wharton School found that new H-1B visa restrictions will likely encourage companies to outsource technology-related jobs.
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The Lauder Institute’s Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, led James G. McGann of the Wharton School, released an index and report naming the top free-market think tanks in the world.
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“The Unbanking of America” by Lisa Servon of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design was recommended for readers trying to understand why fintech matters.
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Gregory Bisson of the Perelman School of Medicine authored a study that showed it is safe to treat patients with HIV and tuberculosis for both diseases simultaneously. “Our results show that antiretrovirals have benefits that far outweigh their risks related to adverse effects, especially in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients,” he said.
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Cherie Kagan of the School of Engineering and Applied Science spoke about the Penn-led IoT4Ag center’s work: “We need new technology to meet the challenges of a world with a growing population and changing climate. We simply need to produce more crops for every drop of water or Joule of energy we’re currently using to realize a food, energy and water-secure future.”
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David Hoffman of the Law School and a University of Virginia Law School colleague published a paper about the impact of COVID-19 on contracts. They recommend renegotiating contracts to minimize damages over trying to enforce or fight the terms.
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The University of Pennsylvania has joined other colleges and universities in filing an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit filed by Harvard and MIT. The lawsuit seeks to block the Trump administration’s proposal to revoke F-1 and M-1 visas from international students not taking in-person classes this fall.
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Serena Mayeri of the Law School and School of Arts & Sciences spoke about Pauli Murray’s effort to include “sex” in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. “There’s this pernicious myth that the sex amendment was some kind of joke, or fluke, or a poison pill that was designed to sink the Civil Rights Act,” Mayeri said, “when in fact it really was the product of the deliberate efforts by advocates for women.”