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Education, Business, & Law
Texas Higher Education Must Confront Hard Choices, Penn GSE Study Finds
PHILADELPHIA — Texas will be forced to put the state’s economic growth at stake by closing the doors to college opportunity for thousands of young people, many of them Latino, unless leaders prioritize their goals for higher education and develop a plan to pay for them, according to a new report released by researchers at the University o
Penn to Offer Online Classes via Coursera
PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania will join Princeton University, the University of Michigan, the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University in partnering with Coursera, an online education platform, to make Web-based courses available free and to improve teaching on campuses.
Penn’s United Community Clinic Provides Health Care for Underserved Populations, Showcases Interdisciplinary Work
Sick people refusing to be seen by a doctor? “I don’t have medical coverage, I can’t go.” That’s what some people have said for far too long. But, one organization works to get Philadelphians the health care that they need –- with or without insurance.
Penn IUR, Partners Launch Innovative Electricity Price Awareness Campaign
PHILADELPHIA -- You can easily track the minute-by-minute price swings of a barrel of oil, but can you do the same for a megawatt of electricity? Today you can.
Penn’s United Community Clinic Provides Health Care for Underserved Populations, Showcases Interdisciplinary Work
Sick people refusing to be seen by a doctor? “I don’t have medical coverage, I can’t go.” That’s what some people have said for far too long. But, one organization works to get Philadelphians the health care that they need –- with or without insurance.
‘Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet’
If the Brothers Grimm tale about “the fairest one of all” had remained outside of the public domain, the Disney version of Snow White may never have lived happily ever after.
Penn Research Shows That Mormons Are Generous and Active in Helping Others
PHILADELPHIA -- When it comes to being generous with time and money, Americans who are not Mormons can learn from Americans who are.
Penn Nourish International to Engage With Nicaragua on Sustainable Health Resource Project
Penn Nourish International and the Wake Forest chapter of Nourish have teamed up to conduct a service project at a Nicaraguan health clinic this summ
APPC Honors 'Sesame Process' for Children’s Media Development
PHILADELPHIA – Sesame Street, the long-running and award-winning children’s television program that airs on the Public Broadcasting Service, is the recipient of the 2012 Annenberg Public Policy Center Award for Excellence in Children and Media.
iDE Wins the $100,000 Lipman Family Prize of the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA – The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announced today the winner of its inaugural Barry & Marie Lipman Family Prize – iDE, a social enterprise that has pioneered innovative, market-based approaches
In the News
The Independent
How the stock market could be last guardrails to corral Trump’s wildest whims
Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School says that Donald Trump measured his success in his first term by the performance of the stock market.
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Business Insider
The hidden risk factor investors may be missing in stocks, bonds, and options
A study by Nikolai Roussanov of the Wharton School and colleagues finds that stocks, bonds, and options strategies could have more correlated risk than is evident on the surface.
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The Wall Street Journal
How AI could help bring down the cost of college
Kartik Hosanagar of the Wharton School explains how AI could bring down prices for more complex and expensive services like higher education.
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CNN
Grocery prices are high. Trump’s mass deportations could make matters worse
Zeke Hernandez of the Wharton School says that the U.S. economy is reliant on the supply of immigrant workers.
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Inc.
Why the return to office workforce is coming back less diverse
A study by the Wharton School found that changing job openings to remote work at startups increased female applicants by 15% and minority applicants by 33%.
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