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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Penn alumna Alison Malmon is noted for creating Active Minds, a mental health organization for college students, after her brother’s death by suicide.
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According to Amanda Shanor of the Wharton School, the Supreme Court claims to only take cases to create law that will have broader implications, not just to reverse wrong decisions.
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Elizabeth Pollman of Penn Carey Law and Witold Henisz of the Wharton School comment on ESG’s alignment with the pursuit of shareholder value and the recent politicization of investing.
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Witold Henisz of the Wharton School says that the anti-ESG movement is motivated by politics and investing, rather than grassroots organization or the financial industry.
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Lindsay Cameron of the Wharton School explains why there are more contractor jobs available for freelancers during a recession.
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A study by Homa Hosseinmardi of the Annenberg School for Communication shows that the TV news audience is being “distilled,” with an overall shrinkage but an increased number of partisans.
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Katy Milkman of the Wharton School is quoted on how to harness consequential behaviors for positive change.
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Dominic Sisti of the Perelman School of Medicine said that, during the evolution of the internet in the 1990s, bioethicists were preoccupied by the Human Genome Project and overlooked the rise of social media and its impact on health care. “Social media was something that we as bioethicists just didn’t have our eyes on—and it’s coming back now to haunt us,” he said.
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Philip Nichols of the Wharton School spoke about the potential effects of divesting from Russia. “In the past decade, Putin’s administration has undertaken a lot of things that either insulate the administration from public opinion or manipulate public opinion,” Nichols said. “So, when the Russian people are hurt by all of these things, it kind of dulls the effect that that will have inside of the Kremlin. On the other hand, just because it dulls it doesn’t mean it is not felt.”
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Megan Ryerson of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design is using biometric data to identify dangerous zones for urban cyclists. The data “can be used to measure safety rather than waiting for someone to die,” she said.