Penn in the News

"It's a losing effort given the piling up of evidence and the fact that people are seeing and feeling the consequences of climate change so dramatically this summer with the heat domes and wildfires,” says Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences.

"What stands out is the contrast," says Shawn Patterson Jr. of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. Americans’ expectations for how AI will affect the country, and their views toward regulation, are essentially unchanged since March. Over the same period, however, opposition to a data center in their area rose 12 points. That's a dramatic move over a relatively short period of time."

"Now the benefits [of testosterone] apply only to men who have low testosterone, unequivocally low testosterone. The lower, the more likely are the benefits,” says Peter Snyder of the Perelman School of Medicine.

“The new rule does not prevent companies from self-affirming the safety of their ingredients,” said Alyssa Moran of the Perelman School of Medicine.

“There’s an aesthetic of this current administration that is young, beautiful and usually white. And so, I think this content feeds into that. It certainly validates it,” says Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser of the Annenberg School for Communication.

“If a couple is trying to get pregnant, I don’t think we should leave out the male, because we are learning more and more that male health affects reproductive outcomes as well,” said Clarisa Gracia of the Perelman School of Medicine.

“This policy energy reflects a profound concern with what technology is doing to us,” says Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences, who worked on a study focusing on U.S. school cellphone bans.

“Supply chain spillovers due to heat upstream actually lead to measurable downstream firm valuation impacts,” says R. Jisung Park of the School of Social Policy & Practice and the Wharton School.

“The demand for memory chips and the extraordinary prices we’re seeing here — the profit margins that these companies are getting for these memory chips — are unprecedented,” says Benjamin Lee of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. “I haven’t seen this for 20–30 years since I’ve started working in this space.”

“We know that media coverage and celebrity coverage can play a role in the development and maintenance of eating disorders, and that it’s a major risk factor for the development of body image concerns,” says Rebecca Boswell of the Perelman School of Medicine.