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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Trump-friendly Newsmax bundled into Comcast’s Xfinity service
The Annenberg School for Communication’s Victor Pickard discussed conservative news channel Newsmax and its recent deal with Comcast. If Comcast is “feeling the heat from the right, it will make sense to appease some of those critics,” said Pickard.
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Penn Museum preserves a little bit of Egypt for display during renovation
The Penn Museum’s Jennifer Wegner and Julian Siggers spoke about the new, temporary exhibit, “Ancient Egypt: From Discovery to Display.” The display, designed to resemble an archeological lab, “was an opportunity for us to bring the public to see how a gallery unfolds,” said Siggers.
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The NFL player moonlighting as an Ivy League professor
NFL linebacker and Wharton alum Brandon Copeland is co-teaching a financial literacy course with Brian Peterson of the School of Arts and Sciences. “I want you to leave this class feeling a lot more comfortable having these conversations about your money with people,” said Copeland.
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She’s only a sophomore at Penn and she’s nominated for an Oscar
Sophomore Claire Sliney of Los Angeles is the first Penn student to be nominated for an Academy Award while currently enrolled. Sliney is the executive producer of “Period. End of Sentence.” It is a documentary short film about the fight against menstrual stigma in rural India.
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How has the ‘crack cocaine of gambling’ affected Illinois? The state hasn’t bothered to check
Charles O’Brien of the Perelman School of Medicine discussed gambling addiction, saying that “many clinicians have long believed that problem gamblers closely resemble alcoholics and drug addicts, not only from the external consequences of problem finances and destruction of relationships but increasingly on the inside as well.”
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The U.S. teaching population is getting bigger, and more female
Richard Ingersoll of the School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Education was cited for a study which noted an increasingly disproportionate number of women teaching K-12 in recent years due in part to social perceptions of teaching as “feminine” labor.
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Sleep apnea patients who are drowsy during the day at risk for heart woes
The Perelman School of Medicine’s Diego Mazzotti spoke about his research on sleep apnea and cardiovascular risk. “Even without further research, clinicians should recognize that patients with obstructive sleep apnea who complain of feeling tired when they wake up and sleepy during the day are at greater risk for cardiovascular disease,” Mazzotti said.
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Physics explains how pollen gets its stunning diversity of shapes
The School of Arts and Sciences’ Alison Sweeney explained how phase separation contributes to the unique shapes of pollen grains.
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Mood-forecasting tech could help stop bad moods before they even strike
Sharath Guntuku of Penn Medicine’s Center for Digital Health said that “based on how we use technology, our mental state can be predicted.”
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Russian hackers work several times faster than Chinese counterparts, new data shows
Michael Carpenter of the Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement said Russian hackers are “the most aggressive and risk-tolerant because they’ve broken so many international norms and face so few repercussions that they don’t really believe there will be any serious consequences to their action.”