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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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America’s job listings have gone off the deep end
Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School said modern job listings use language that perpetuates the idea that only obsessively devoted employees are of value, potentially scaring off well-suited applicants.
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‘They’re chipping away.’ Inside the grassroots effort to fight mandatory vaccines
In an article about anti-vax organizing, Paul Offit of the Perelman School of Medicine said, “Vaccines are a victim of their own success.” Offit continued, “people have forgotten how sick measles can make you and how dead measles can make you.”
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Like ‘Back to the Future’: Penn Museum floats its ancient sphinx to a new home
Jennifer Wegner and Julian Siggers of the Penn Museum commented on the sphinx’s relocation. “You’ll have one of the most significant archaeological objects in America greeting you as you come in the doors of the new Penn Museum,” said Siggers.
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Democracy and truth
Sophia Rosenfeld of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about her book, Democracy and Truth, and the democratic “argument about what is true” in an episode of “Radio Times.”
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Whole-body PET scanner produces 3D images in seconds
Abass Alavi of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about a new version of a PET scanner that can generate 3D renderings of the entire human body in just seconds, a fraction of the time required by older iterations. “The whole-body machine is another quantum jump in medical imaging,” said Alavi.
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Catholic bishops approve new sex-abuse reporting hotline
Marci Hamilton of the School of Arts and Sciences urged U.S. Catholic bishops to require that suspicions of sexual abuse be reported to police. The new third-party hotline proposed by the church does not explicitly require interaction with law enforcement.
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How do you move a 13-ton Egyptian sphinx? Penn Museum hopes to try it today
Today, Penn Museum is moving its 13-ton sphinx from the Lower Egyptian Gallery to the main entrance lobby. Jennifer Wegner of the Penn Museum said, “I’m probably a little less concerned than [project manager Bob Thurlow] is. I look at the past travels of the sphinx—it made it from Memphis, Egypt, all the way here 100 years ago without incident.”
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Meet the NFL player teaching a money class to college students
Wharton alumnus and New York Jets linebacker Brandon Copeland, who lectured in the School of Arts and Sciences as part of a class on personal finance co-taught with Brian Peterson this spring, is featured. “My goal for this is to make this accessible to everyone,” he said.
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How to keep teen drivers’ eyes on the road, and their fingers off the keyboard
Kate McDonald of the School of Nursing discussed efforts to reduce teen car crashes, including in-school training. “What we’ve seen to be successful in getting people to use seat belts, or reducing cigarette use, we want to be able to shift that over to reducing distracted driving and changing the social norms around what’s acceptable and what’s not,” she said.
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Upgrade your memory with a surgically implanted chip
Michael Kahana of the School of Arts and Sciences discussed his contributions to the development of an implantable prosthetic memory aid. “Just like meteorologists predict the weather by putting sensors in the environment that measure humidity and wind speed and temperature, we put sensors in the brain and measure electrical signals,” Kahana said. If it doesn’t detect enough brain activity, the device then provides a small zap to trigger memory formation.