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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Nikki Haley said Texas could secede from the U.S. Here’s why that’s wrong
Kermit Roosevelt of Penn Carey Law says that Nikki Haley is offering a Confederate view of the Constitution and secession.
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UPenn scientists among those developing vaccines that arm the immune system to fight cancer
Penn Medicine researchers like Nobel laureate Drew Weissman are leading efforts to develop a vaccine that prevents cancer, with remarks from Susan Domchek of the Basser Center for BRCA and Robert H. Vonderheide of the Abramson Cancer Center.
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Bus Revolution would bring frequent bus service to 1 million SEPTA riders
In an Op-Ed, graduate student Jonathan Zisk of the Weitzman School of Design says that SEPTA should green-light the Bus Revolution project and allow the rollout of transformative bus service across the Philadelphia region.
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Penn’s BRCA cancer vaccine trial aims to prevent the disease in healthy people
A trial led by Susan Domchek of the Perelman School of Medicine could use a preventive vaccine to protect people with a BRCA gene mutation from cancer.
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Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they’re being built
Thomas Daniels of the Weitzman School of Design says that generating energy from wind and solar requires land just like coal, oil, and natural gas, though the necessary acreage is larger.
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U.S. patient ‘happy again’ after brain implant treats epilepsy and OCD
A Penn study is underway to see how neural implants can be more widely applied to treat OCD.
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Here’s what these youth advocates have to say about Philly’s truancy problem, and how they would fix it
The Netter Center for Community Partnerships has more than 30 years of investment in connecting resources that address truancy, such as establishing after-school programming.
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A plan to overhaul Pa.’s higher education landscape is a long time coming, but questions remain
Joni E. Finney of the Graduate School of Education says that Gov. Josh Shapiro’s efforts to tackle higher education reform in Pennsylvania are an accomplishment but fail to address the problem with Penn State’s Commonwealth campuses.
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Congressional hearing on AI deepfake protections raises questions over ownership
At a congressional hearing on AI deepfakes, Jennifer Rothman of Penn Carey Law invoked the music industry's long history of perpetuity deals to object to a provision that would allow artists to transfer the rights to their voice and likeness to a third party.
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How long does the flu last? What to know
According to the University of Pennsylvania Health System, flu symptoms usually appear two to three days after contact with the virus.