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Navigating cytokine storms
Illustration of a T cell releasing signaling molecules, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-10, and IL-13

An immune response can be helpful, harmful, or somewhere in between, in COVID-19 and many other medical conditions. 

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    • Navigating cytokine storms

    Pairing their expertise, Nilam Mangalmurti of the Perelman School of Medicine and Christopher Hunter of the School of Veterinary Medicine have been working to understand the protective and harmful aspects of the immune response, including in COVID-19.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Wharton School announces new AI for Business initiative
    computer illustration of artifical intelligence
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    • Wharton School announces new AI for Business initiative

    Wharton School announces new AI for Business initiative. Led by AI expert and Wharton professor Kartik Hosanagar, AI for Business will enable students, faculty, and industry partners to explore the next phase of digital transformation.

    Dee Patel

    What the 1968 Kerner Commission can teach us
    Historic image of police storming a storefront in 1967 during a riot in Detroit.

    President Lyndon Johnson established the Kerner Commission to identify the genesis of the violence in the 1960s that killed 43 in Detroit and 26 in Newark. Pictured here, soldiers in a Newark storefront. (Image: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture)

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    • What the 1968 Kerner Commission can teach us

    Criminologist and statistician Richard Berk, who worked on the report as a graduate student, explains the systemic racism and poverty found to underlie violent unrest in the 1960s and where COVID-19 and the economy fit today.

    Michele W. Berger

    The case against separating breastfeeding mothers and infants during the pandemic
    Person in a black dress standing on stairs for a portrait.

    Diane Spatz is a professor of perinatal nursing and the Helen M. Shearer Professor of Nutrition at the School of Nursing, and a nurse scientist for the lactation program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. (Image: Eric Sucar)

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    • The case against separating breastfeeding mothers and infants during the pandemic

    In a Q&A, Diane Spatz of Penn Nursing and CHOP discusses why it’s safe and beneficial to keep them together, even when the mother tests positive for COVID-19.

    Michele W. Berger

    Can widespread protests bring lasting change?
    A crowd of people wearing masks march in the streets, one protester holds a sign reading "Justice for George Floyd."

    Demonstrators march to protest George Floyd’s killing by a police officer.

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    • Can widespread protests bring lasting change?

    Amidst the current protests decrying the killings of Black people by police and demand for reforms, Penn Today speaks to political scientist Daniel Gillion about his new book, “The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy.”

    Kristen de Groot

    Can, or should, the Insurrection Act be invoked?
    Armed soldiers stand in the grass in front of a low wall behind which a large protest is taking place.

    Military police soldiers attached to the Texas Army National Guard’s 136th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade support local law enforcement during a protest in Austin, Texas, on May 31, 2020.

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    • Can, or should, the Insurrection Act be invoked?

    Claire Finkelstein of the Law School spoke to Penn Today to discuss the history and meaning of a rarely used law, propelled into the news this week.

    Kristen de Groot

    Language in tweets offers insight into community-level well-being
    A person with arms crossed at the chest standing outside between two rock walls, in front of a glass building.

    Lyle Ungar, a professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and one of the principal investigators of the World Well-Being Project, which has spent more than half a decade working on ways to grasp the emotional satisfaction and happiness of specific places.

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    • Language in tweets offers insight into community-level well-being

    In a Q&A, researcher Lyle Ungar discusses why counties that frequently use words like ‘love’ aren’t necessarily happier, plus how techniques from this work led to a real-time COVID-19 wellness map.

    Michele W. Berger