Penn in the News

“I think that the same way that we should have discussions as parents with our kids on what they eat, how they handle themselves in the world, when they go outside of the house, how they should behave in terms of their safety — we should talk about cellphones in a similar manner,” says Ran Barzilay of the Perelman School of Medicine.

“The piece that really carries forward is her belief in the goodness of people and her ability to apply that to seemingly difficult problems,” says Stacia West of the School of Social Policy & Practice, who studied Dolly Parton’s philanthropy.

Sami Khella of the Perelman School of Medicine weighs in on plasma donations strengthens his patient with neurological disorders.

To reduce nursing burnout, Justinna Dixon of the School of Nursing says, “One of the main takeaways is that 40% of current inpatient psychiatric nurses right now are burned out...Staffing was a huge driver of these outcomes, the impact of the work environment on the poor job outcomes of the nurses.”

“When the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, or Eniac, was first built by the University of Pennsylvania for the US Army in 1946, it weighed about 30 tons and had 18,000 vacuum tubes that filled an expansive room...Now, a typical laptop can do more than 3 billion calculations per second and costs around $1,000.”

“News as an institution was defined basically by older generations and by elites as to what counted as news and what did not count as news,” says Lance Holbert of the Annenberg School for Communication. “It’s much more now defined by individual audience members.”

Joao F. Gomes of the Wharton School writes, “AI is also creating a large and rapidly evolving financing ecosystem whose leverage, exposures and vulnerabilities are much less well understood.”

“Our findings suggest that a temporary increase in testosterone does not meaningfully change people’s ability to override intuitive responses and engage in deliberate reasoning,” says Gideon Nave of the Wharton School.

“This is a technology breakthrough,” says Guo-li Ming of the Perelman School of Medicine, of the longest lifespan of organoids to date.

"Nobody's held accountable for anything about their performance appraisals except just doing them," says Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School.