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Education, Business, & Law
Penn Graduate School of Education Opens Business Plan Competition Submissions; Top Prize $25,000
PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and the Milken Family Foundation have announced that the 2011 Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition is open for submissions.
Penn Leads the Vote Students to Hold Election Day March and Rally Nov. 2
MEDIA ADVISORY WHO: Amy Gutmann, University of Pennsylvania president Penn Leads the Vote student representatives Penn marching band, Penn cheerleaders
”The Dogon: Work, Women and Water” at Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery
PHILADELPHIA — “The Dogon: Work, Women and Water” opens at the University of Pennsylvania’s Arthur Ross Gallery on Nov. 5. Featuring 15 photographs by renowned Magnum photographer Stuart Franklin, this exhibit is in cooperation with the 2010-11 Year of Water at Penn.
Penn’s Center for Tech Transfer Wins Award for Industry/University/Government Research
PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Technology Transfer has been honored with a Deal of Distinction Award by the Licensing Executive Society (USA and Canada) Inc.
Wharton School to Host 2011 Global Alumni Forum in San Francisco
Philadelphia and San Francisco – The Wharton School announced that, for the first time in the history of the Wharton Global Alumni Forums, the School next year will combine the three regional Forums into a single event, to be held in San Francisco on June 23-24, 2011.
Wharton School Announces Partnership With Sovereign Bank, Santander Universities
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the establishment of a Partnership for Globalization with Sovereign Bank, part of Banco Santander.
World Is Full of Darkness, Reflected in the Physiology of the Human Retina, Penn Researchers Say
PHILADELPHIA –- Physicists and neuroscientists from the University of Pennsylvania have linked the cell structure of the retina to the light and dark contrasts of the natural world, demonstrating the likelihood that the neural pathways humans use for seeing are adapted to best capture the world around us.
Report from Penn’s Fels Institute of Government Shows Positive Results of Urban Investment
PHILADELPHIA –- A new report from the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government shows how public investment guided by strategic planning can produce highly successful results, even within an urban area formerly plagued by high levels of vacancy and abandonment.
Penn President Amy Gutmann Meets With Vice President Biden on Stimulus Funding for Research
WASHINGTON -- University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann attended a meeting at the White House today as an invited guest of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
In the News
USA Today
Republicans loved crypto before Trump jumped on the bandwagon. Here’s why
According to research by David Reibstein of the Wharton School and colleagues, Republicans are more likely than Democrats to invest in cryptocurrency.
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Good Housekeeping
Six health resolutions that are actually good for your mind & body
Katy Milkman of the Wharton School says that combining something tempting with something that feels like a chore helps to do more of that chore.
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Barron’s
The U.S. can’t grow its way out of debt. Here’s what it can do
A package of 13 major tax and spending reforms proposed by the Penn Wharton Budget Model could reduce the deficit by $10 trillion during the 10-year budget window and generate $59 trillion in net revenue by 2054.
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Marketplace (NPR)
The economists’ word of the year
Sasha Indarte of the Wharton School says that economic uncertainty can cause people to postpone choices like spending, buying homes, how much to save, and how much to invest.
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CNBC
Wharton’s Jeremy Siegel says stock sell-off is ‘healthy’ as cautious Fed gives investors a ‘reality check’
Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School expects the Federal Reserve to pare back the number of rate cuts next year, with just one or two reductions.
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