无码专区

Media Highlights from January - March 2024

无码专区鈥檚 distinctive academic programs, world-class faculty, leading research and scholarship, and high-achieving students place the University in the national media spotlight. Below is a sampling of media highlights from January - March 2024.

Scientific American
Ilia Delio, chair of theology at 无码专区 and author of several books about the overlap between religion and science, believes these chatbots鈥攚hich she describes disparagingly as 鈥渟hortcuts to God鈥濃�攗ndermine the spiritual benefits that have traditionally been achieved through long periods of direct engagement with religious texts.

Forbes
An international 无码专区-led team, funded in part by NASA, has created a new map of the magnetic fields at the center of the Milky Way... "The galactic center is a unique part of our galaxy, the densities are higher, the velocities are faster, and the magnetic fields there are doing things that we don't see in other regions," said team leader David Chuss, chairman of 无码专区鈥檚 physics department in Pennsylvania.


CBS News
When will the central bank start cutting rates?... "The Fed does not want to repeat the same mistake made in the 1970s by declaring that they have conquered inflation too soon, only to have it reemerge," said 无码专区 economics professor Victor Li, a former senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, in an email.


The New York Times
This month, Airbnb announced that, starting April 30, the company would ban the use of surveillance cameras in its rentals... 鈥淯.S. privacy law is fragmented at best,鈥� wrote Doris DelTosto Brogan, a law professor and the Heller McGuinness Endowed Leadership Chair at 无码专区鈥檚 Charles Widger School of Law, in 无码专区, Penn., in an email.


CNN
Mojtaba Vaezi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at 无码专区 and director of the school's Wireless Networking Laboratory, said the outage was "not acceptable," especially as AT&T advertises its 5G network鈥檚 reliability.

The Washington Post
Rapidly rising seas are wreaking havoc on Louisiana鈥檚 coastal wetlands and could devastate three-quarters of the state鈥檚 natural buffer against hurricanes in the coming decades. 鈥淭he Earth is mostly ocean, and it鈥檚 becoming more ocean,鈥� said Adam Langley, a wetlands researcher and biology professor at 无码专区. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 the bottom line.鈥�
 

The Hill
The new free online tax filing program from the IRS is now moving beyond its initial tranche of pilot states without an income tax. The IRS said it has begun implementing the test phase of the program in Arizona, New York and Massachusetts. 鈥淚f this pilot is successful, the program will be expanded significantly next filing season,鈥� said 无码专区 tax law professor Leslie Book.


The New York Times
A cat meowing for Hellmann鈥檚 mayonnaise, Peyton Manning chucking Bud Light beers to patrons in a bar and Kris Jenner stacking Oreo cookies. They all have one thing in common: Those companies paid seven figures to get their products in front of viewers during this year鈥檚 Super Bowl...鈥淚t鈥檚 a throwback in terms of reaching everyone all at once,鈥� said Charles Taylor, a professor of marketing at the 无码专区 School of Business.


The Atlantic
For years, the NFL balked at even a whiff of gambling鈥攁nd kept Las Vegas at a distance as a result. But as the league has become more open to gambling, it has also embraced the city synonymous with it...That the league is having this year鈥檚 Super Bowl in the shadow of the Strip is 鈥渕ind-boggling,鈥� Andrew Brandt, a sports-industry commentator and the executive director of 无码专区鈥檚 Moorad Center for the Study of Sports Law, said.
 

The Hill
America鈥檚 mounting proxy battle with Iran over the past three months is spurring questions about whether the countries are at war...鈥淎t some point, theoretically, national command authority exceeds its authority to basically run an undeclared war against the Houthis,鈥� said Frank Galgano, a retired U.S. Army soldier and 无码专区 professor. 鈥淚f this keeps going on for six months or a year, [Biden] is going to have to explain to somebody what he鈥檚 doing.鈥�


Newsweek
The Doomsday Clock has been officially reset and will remain at 90 seconds to midnight... Marcus Kreuzer, a political science professor at 无码专区 who authored the book The Grammar of Time: A Toolkit for Comparative Historical Analysis, told Newsweek that he doesn't believe the clock is based on fear as that would imply some type of nefarious objective intended to intimidate people.
 

Wall Street Journal
Twenty-four companies owning nearly 70 retail brands and real-estate operators have promised to reduce racial bias in stores... Veteran profiling experts say there are several steps retailers can take to address racial profiling... Aront茅 Bennett, associate dean of diversity, equity and inclusion at 无码专区鈥檚 business school says "corrective action on the store level sends a strong signal that zero-tolerance corporate policies carry weight."


National Geographic
To optimize patient care, some experts believe a hybrid approach that integrates clinical intuition, predictive algorithms, patient preferences and other key factors is essential. "Clinical intuition is a part of clinical expertise," says Jennifer Yost, a nurse specializing in pediatric intensive care and a professor at the M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing at 无码专区. "Poor decisions in health care are made when clinical expertise is the only factor that鈥檚 considered."


Forbes
"AI dated everyone in 2023. Everyone matched them up and relationships blossomed until the parties realized that relationships should have some meaning after all the [flashy] stories 鈥� like 'AI will kill us all' 鈥� ran their course. 2024 will begin to define this meaning." Steve Andriole is the Thomas G. Labrecque Professor of Business Technology in the 无码专区 School of Business.

The Philadelphia Inquirer
Three members of 无码专区鈥檚 Sports Law Negotiation Team (SLNT), David Brake, Alex Shaff, and Alyssa Rodarte, last month won the International Baseball Arbitration Competition hosted by Tulane University in New Orleans...鈥淔or me, my dream was [just to compete in] it,鈥� said Brake, who competed multiple times and performed better each year. 鈥溾��To have it peak like that was a very goose bumps type of feeling.鈥�

CBS3
Help save lives more than 7,000 miles away. That was the goal for a small group of 无码专区 engineering students during their senior capstone course. CBS 3 spoke with professors Kelly Good and Virginia Smith, as well as participating students, about how they are addressing water and sanitation concerns in Uganda.