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Food and Identity

The 60-minute Global Food Tour at the Penn Museum will highlight exhibitions to explore food and food production, economics, religion and spirituality, class, gender, and community. The tour is followed by a 30-minute hands-on interactive activity.

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Penn Museum, 3260 South St.

New gift creates the first named professorship in the historic preservation program at Weitzman

Thanks to a gift from alums Dawn Brian Gonick, Frank Matero has assumed the first endowed professorship in the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation—the first named full professorship created at the School since 2006.

First of its kind blood test to measure immune response to COVID vaccine in immunocompromised patients

The Penn Medicine-created test measures both antibody and T-cell response to COVID-19 vaccination among multiple sclerosis patients, then integrates results into the electronic health record to aid in clinician and patient decision-making.

KCBS San Francisco

40% of Americans say they've returned to pre-COVID life, study finds

An Annenberg Public Policy Center survey shows that four in 10 Americans have decided to return to “normal” pre-pandemic life, with a quote from Kathleen Hall Jamieson

The Conversation

Don’t be too quick to blame social media for America’s polarization—cable news has a bigger effect, study finds

A study from Homa Hosseinmardi of the Annenberg School for Communication suggests that television, not the web, is the top driver of partisan audience segregation among Americans.

WHYY Radio (Philadelphia)

Philly health department launches new lab to sequence, track COVID variants

Frederic Bushman of the Perelman School of Medicine, whose lab has helped to sequence COVID data samples, says that the more people who can contribute to this work, the better.

Forbes

Female whistleblowers face more retaliation—here’s how to avoid it, according to a new study

A study by Nancy Rothbard of the Wharton School finds that women at all levels of power are far more likely than men to face retaliation when speaking up about moral infractions.

The Washington Post

Minimum wages are going up. Jobs may disappear

A labor market model co-authored by Thomas Winberry of the Wharton School shows that raising the minimum wage has little to no impact on jobs in the short-term, as well as potentially negative effects on worker substitution in the long-term.

Philadelphia Inquirer

More than two years into the pandemic, hospital care still may not save you from dying of COVID-19

Lewis J. Kaplan of the Perelman School of Medicine says that improvements in outpatient therapy have prompted some hospitals to only admit very ill COVID patients.