Through
4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Cait Lamberton of the Wharton School says that customers may feel manipulated and resentful when prompted for charitable donations at checkout.
Penn In the News
Stacia West of the Center for Guaranteed Income Research at the School of Social Policy & Practice says that guaranteed income payments improve people’s psychological wellbeing by reducing their distress. Amy Castro, also of the Center, points out that such programs are expensive, so important questions need to be asked.
Penn In the News
Karen Lasater of the School of Nursing and Leonard Davis Institute says that the nursing shortage crisis is rooted in unsafe staffing ratios at hospitals.
Penn In the News
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences is suing a right-wing author and a policy analyst for defamation against the “hockey stick” climate change graph.
Penn In the News
Virginia Man-Yee Lee of the Perelman School of Medicine says it’s likely in the future that anyone older than 60 will get an Alzheimer’s test.
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Michael Kearns of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says that ChatGPT could be remembered one day as being as important as the invention of the iPhone, or even the internet itself.
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Dan Hopkins of the School of Arts & Sciences says that noncompetitive school board races are quickly becoming a thing of the past, fueled in part by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Penn In the News
A study by César de la Fuente of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues used AI to recreate molecules from ancient humans that could be potential candidates for antimicrobial treatments.
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Kevin Werbach of the Wharton School says that the problem with net neutrality repeal was the FCC’s refusal to take any oversight, not the long-feared doomsday of the internet.
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Benjamin Keys of the Wharton School says the changing landscape in insurance markets is a recognition that risks have increased in recent years.