11/15
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Lessons from the largest study of guaranteed income in the U.S.
Stacia West of the School of Social Policy & Practice is interviewed on a study in which hundreds of people in Texas and Illinois got no-strings-attached payments of $1,000 a month.
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Old legal quirk lets police take your money with little reason, critics say
Penn Carey Law's Louis Rulli says that just because a person hasn’t done anything wrong does not mean they're safe from civil forfeiture, and it’s very costly and very difficult to fight the government.
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Assessing Trump’s and Harris’s attacks on each other
Sandra Mayson of Penn Carey Law says that in a risk-based system, people charged with low-level crimes are typically released quickly but people charged with more serious crimes are not.
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Smart meter debate: Small group of consumers pushes against a meter mandate in Pennsylvania
Kenneth Foster of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says that the most reliable conclusions are always those of expert panels that conduct systematic reviews according to established procedures.
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Penn Vet program for search-and-rescue dogs featured in Netflix documentary
Cynthia Otto from the School of Veterinary Medicine comments on the Working Dog Center she founded that trains dogs to sniff out bombs, missing people, and even cancer and its role in a new Netflix documentary.
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These tiny worms live in eyes, feed on tears and could transmit to humans
Researchers led by Caroline Sobotyk of the School of Veterinary Medicine found more than a dozen parasitic worms in the eyes of a black bear, renewing fears that humans could face danger from the blindness-causing worms.
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Schools have made slow progress on record absenteeism, with millions of kids still skipping class
Michael Gottfried of the Graduate School of Education says that school children who identify with their educators are more likely to attend school.
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Six health myths about oils
Dean Mark Wolff of the School of Dental Medicine says that oil pulling won’t cause harm but has never reversed periodontitis or gingivitis.
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Why GOP’s DEI attack on Vice President Kamala Harris is wrong
Howard Stevenson of the Graduate School of Education says that businesses are better, more productive, and more financially sound when diversity is factored into their hiring and policies.
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Five ways science is tackling the antibiotic resistance crisis
César de la Fuente of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Perelman School of Medicine is using AI to identify antimicrobial peptides found in modern and extinct humans, as well as other extinct animals.