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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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How neuroscience could explain the rise of addictions, heart disease, and diabetes in 21st century America
Peter Sterling of the Perelman School of Medicine wrote about the neuroscience behind modern maladies like addiction: “Lacking small pulses of dopamine, we grow uncomfortable and seek relief with substances that act powerfully on the reward circuit to release dopamine in great surges.”
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Penn, Drexel get $22 million to study Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, other dementias
Penn’s Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research has been awarded funding to explore a variety of dementias. The center is led by Virginia Man-Yee Lee and John Q. Trojanowski and the research will be conducted by Alice Chen-Plotkin and Murray Grossman, all of the Perelman School of Medicine.
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Smartphone data show voters in black neighborhoods wait longer
Stephen Pettigrew of the School of Arts and Sciences said a new study that observed 29% longer wait times for voters in predominately black neighborhoods “was a totally, totally different way to try to measure this problem than what we’ve seen before.”
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Taking off the blinders to our social blunders
Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts and Sciences wrote about how easy it is to “act like a jerk and not realize it” when committing social blunders.
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Shattered: Intimate partner gun violence
The School of Social Policy & Practice's Susan B. Sorenson is quoted on the likelihood that domestic abusers own guns.
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Could immunotherapy treat diseases besides cancer?
Jonathan Epstein of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on how immunotherapy has transformed cancer care.
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What Gandhi believed is the purpose of a corporation
Sudev Sheth of the Lauder Institute and School of Arts and Sciences co-authored a piece about Gandhi’s views on business. “Gandhi’s views were constantly evolving in dialogue with the business community, and this is one reason why they remain so relevant today,” he wrote.
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Despite obstacles, black colleges are pipelines to the middle class, study finds. Here’s its list of the best
Robert A. Nathenson of the Graduate School of Education comments on his work studying the hurdles faced by historically black colleges and universities.
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Penn’s offense comes alive in 28-24 win over Lafayette
The win had plenty of offensive highlights, with senior quarterback Nick Robinson and sophomore wideout Ryan Cragun, senior tailback Karekin Brooks, and wideout Rory Starkey, and ends a four-game Quakers losing streak dating back to last season and sends them into next week’s Ivy League and home opener with Dartmouth on a winning note.
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Did the White House hide a bombshell memo from Mueller?
Tobias Barrington Wolff of the Law School commented on reports that a memo documenting a May 10, 2017, meeting between the U.S. president and Russian diplomats may have been illegally withheld from the Mueller investigation. “This emphasizes the point that Mueller’s conclusions were based on imperfect information precisely because of White House and Trump misconduct,” he said.