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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Boxes, pouches, cartons, and envelopes — oh my!
Eric Orts of the Wharton School spoke about the environmental impact of packaging waste. “Lots of it will still go into a landfill, for no really good reason,” said Orts. “If you look at something like the distribution system of Amazon, it doesn’t seem that hard to shift this.”
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Getting defendants to ‘flip’ is key tool in going after the kingpin, experts say
Claire Finkelstein of the Law School offered commentary on cooperation agreements, calling them “necessary” but challenging for the prosecution: “The tricky thing about relying on a co-conspirator is that you are depending on a fellow criminal to tell the truth about one of his own.”
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Do you need experience as a prosecutor to be a good district attorney?
The Law School’s David Rudovsky said that district attorneys don’t need past experience as prosecutors in order to succeed in the role. “If you weren’t a prosecutor, that doesn’t have any impact at all on your ability to bring in new polices and run the office efficiently,” said Rudovsky.
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On Trump-obsessed cable TV, the defense never rests
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center said that “lawyers contesting to control public opinion is not new…. They were a fixture on TV before the OJ trial as well as during the Clinton impeachment proceedings and the 2000 recount.”
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4 Months After Strike, Contract Deal Still Eludes Nurses, Tufts
Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing comments on the correlation between mortality rates and the number of nurses available to care for patients.
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A True Feminist Life
Anita Summers, emeritus professor in the Wharton School, pens a piece about her feminist lifestyle.
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Nonpolitical Nonprofits Vie for Attention
Katherina Rosqueta of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy in the School of Social Policy & Practice comments on the level of American donations to political causes.
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Money for Firearms Research Lacking, Harvard Professor Tells Scientists
Susan B. Sorenson of the School of Social Policy & Practice comments on the lack of firearm-research funding.
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In Bots We Distrust
Joseph Simmons and Cade Massey of the Wharton School are cited for studying a way to overcome algorithm aversion.
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Harvard, Janitors Reach Late-night Deal and Avoid Strike
Negotiating well past the midnight deadline for a threatened strike, the union representing about 700 Harvard University janitors and the school reached a tentative agreement early Wednesday morning, giving workers a 12.5 percent raise, premium-free health care, and a commitment to creating more full-time jobs. By the end of the four-year contract, most of the janitors will make an average wage of $24.67 an hour.