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Education, Business, & Law
Penn Study Links Heart Rate to Gender Gap in Criminal Offending
In the field of criminology, it is well established that men engage in more crime than women.
Penn’s New Innovation Hub, Pennovation Center Awarded Gold LEED Status for Environmental Design
The University of Pennsylvania’s Pennovation Center has been awarded LEED Gold status for new construction by the U.S.
Netter Center at Penn Announces Community Partnership Award Recipients
The Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania has announced that Richard Pepino and the School District of Philadelphia are the recipients of the second annual Netter Center Faculty-Community
Staff Q&A with Robert Schoenberg
Staff Q&A with Robert Schoenberg
Robert Schoenberg, director of the LGBT Center, discusses the Center’s founding, the important role students have played in the entire life of the Center, and some of the biggest changes he’s seen over his 34 and a half years at Penn.
Population Association of America Honors Penn Prof With Irene B. Taeuber Award
Jere R. Behrman, a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Population Studies Center, has received the biennial Irene B. Taeuber Award of the Population Association of America.
Twenty Penn Students and Alumni Offered 2017-18 Fulbright Grants
Twenty University of Pennsylvania students and alumni have been offered Fulbright U.S.
2017 Beitler Lecture Crisis in Criminal Justice Mass Incarceration and the Impact of DNA Science on the Phenomenon of Wrongful Convictions
The Penn Libraries is pleased to announce that Penn Law’s David Rudovsky, one of the nation's leading civil rights and criminal defense attorneys will deliver the 2017 Beitler Distinguished Lecture, “Crisis in Criminal Justice: Mass Incarceration and the Impact of DNA Science on the Phenomenon
At Penn, Sophomore Anea Moore Finds Purpose and Community Amid Loss
Halfway through Anea Moore’s first semester as a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, she lost her mother to a heart attack, just months after losing her father to lung disease. Through that grief, she has found a way to heal by reaching out to help others.
Penn Student Theater Sparkles at Platt Student Performing Arts House
Under the umbrella of the Theater Arts Council, TACe, students at the University of Pennsylvania, have the opportunity to bask in the limelight, both behind and in front of the curtain.
Penn Professor Nancy Hirschmann Looks at Intersection of Disability and Feminism Through a Unique Lens
University of Pennsylvania professor Nancy Hirschmann studies how disability and feminism intersect from a unique perspective, that of a political theorist.
In the News
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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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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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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CNBC
Wharton’s Siegel says an extension of the 2017 tax cuts is certain with a Republican House majority
Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School discusses the state of the economy and what to expect from the Federal Reserve in December.
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