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Now that the list of the top 20 candidates has been announced cities could start upping the ante, according to Andrew Friedson, Assistant Professor of Economics. "This is exactly what I would do if I’m trying to touch off a bidding war between places," Friedson said. "You get a couple...

Charles Musiba, Associate Professor of Anthropology, points out that when it comes to fossils and other hominid discoveries, it takes years of extensive testing and research before any finding can be endorsed to join coveted historical listing Tanzania: Legislators Call for Aggressive Promotion of Hominid Footprints AllAfrica , January 25

Hamilton Bean, Associate Communication Professor, says that until more precise technology is officially adopted, emergency managers will have to be careful with when or how they deploy alerts. Bean was also interviewed for Knowledge@Wharton on the topic of Wireless Emergency Alerts in the aftermath of the ballistic missile threat false...

A chicken-and-egg problem: "Every PCR primer is designed based on a previous sequence out there," says Chris Miller, Integrated Biology Assistant Professor, who is not involved in the study. "PCR primer bias is big." A New Way to Find the Tree of Life's Missing Branches The Atlantic , Jan 8

The nexus between fire hazard and economic pressures has been framed as a socioeconomic principle by Gregory L. Simon, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences. "We take profit from the landscape, big construction contracts, cities generating massive amounts of tax revenue," Simon said. "Simultaneously to generating...

A photographic exhibit that advocates the reintroduction of wolves into western Colorado will debut this Saturday at the Aspen Airport. According to Diana Tomback, Professor of Integrative Biology and a member of the science advisory committee for the Rocky Mountain Wolf Project, which is sponsoring the event, the exhibit serves a two-fold, inter-related purpose.

Could Medicaid expansions from over 30 years ago affect future generations? Assistant Professor of Economics Chloe East thinks so. East has collaborated with three other researchers across the United States to study the potential for positive, multigenerational effects from access to public health interventions such as Medicaid.

Anna G. Warrener, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, did a study while at Harvard University to test the notion that wider pelvises in women decrease the efficiency of locomotion.

Amy Adele Hasinoff, Assistant Professor of Communication, suggests that a solution to prevent the spread of "Revenge Porn" is one that would prevent any images that depict users without consent from ever being posted in the first place.

Colorado overall is still waiting to see a significant uptick in wage growth, and the link between wage growth and a tight labor market may not be as strong at is has been in the past, according to Associate Dean and Economics Professor Laura Argys. It’s “an employee’s job market”...