5/18
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Ginsberg’s death injects new doubt into fate of Obamacare
Dean Theodore Ruger of the Law School said of efforts to invalidate the Affordable Care Act, “Whoever wins the presidential election will have much more to say about the success or failure of the act than the court. If it’s Trump, there are many administrative ways he could stifle it.”
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China’s push to limit Mongolian language sparks protests
Christopher P. Atwood of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about language changes to education in China. “Minority-language education is now being replaced by a new model of ‘bilingual education’ in which Chinese is the language of instruction and minority languages are at most a topic of instruction, one hour a day,” he said.
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The flight of the techies won’t be the end of Silicon Valley
Susan Wachter of the Wharton School said the pandemic-induced flight of tech workers from major cities will be good for the industry. “It was nearly impossible to get young talented people to join the workforce at wages that could cover those prices,” she said. “This will now make it possible to expand and increase Silicon Valley’s size, not in a geographic cluster sense, but in a network sense.”
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Taking worries about sports to heart
Rajat Deo of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about cardiology health issues in student athletes. “Forget about COVID,” he said. “If you have an elite college athlete or even if you have a high school athlete on the JV swimming team with some degree of cardiac involvement, are you going to let that person compete?”
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#MedBikini backlash exposes research ethics boards’ digital gaps
Emily Largent of the Perelman School of Medicine weighed in on a retracted study that claimed it was unprofessional for early-career surgeons to post photos of themselves in bathing suits on social media. “This is just proof that when it comes to social media research, in general, we don’t have good guidance,” said Largent.
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What benefits would boardroom diversity bring to companies?
Stephanie Creary of the Wharton School was interviewed about diversifying corporate boardrooms. “What I’ve been trying to do in my research is push leaders and boards to reconsider the boardroom dynamics and how those are either helping or hindering the diversity from helping to create the gains that companies are seeking,” she said.
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Wharton’s Siegel sees inflation return, strong consumer spending in 2021
Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School said 2020’s pandemic will lead to strong consumer spending in 2021. “This money in people’s accounts is going to be spent,” he said.
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2020 or 1968: Campaign ads echo another fraught election year
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center said the political atmosphere may continue to shift before November, which makes it hard to design campaign ads. “It makes sense to try to harvest the news agenda to activate your constituency,” she said.
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Virus cases continue to rise, undermining states’ reopening
Jeffrey Morris of the Perelman School of Medicine said the uptick in COVID-19 cases amid state reopenings may be due people not wearing masks or practicing social distancing.
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Simon counts on seasoned lawyer to snuff out Taubman Mall buyout
Larry Hamermesh of the Law School weighed in on a lawsuit between Simon Property Group Inc. and rival mall owner Taubman Centers Inc. The complexities in these merger agreements “can make these cases really interesting,” he said.