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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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How political tribalism is leading to more political hypocrisy
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center spoke about how the impeachment process is testing U.S. political systems. “We’re seeing a point at which we’re calling into question whether our institutions can function the way they were intended to function in a polarized age,” she said.
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Second U.S. baby to be born from a dead donor’s uterus is delivered
Kathleen O’Neill and Paige Porrett of the Perelman School of Medicine led a clinical trial that transplanted a donated uterus into the body of a woman born without one, ultimately allowing her to carry her own child.
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U-Haul’s nicotine-free hiring rule reflects a trend that troubles workers’ advocates
Harald Schmidt of the Perelman School of Medicine said policies targeting smokers disproportionately harms poor people because nearly half of unemployed people are addicted to nicotine. “You’re basically posing a double whammy on them,” he says. “It’s very hard for them to get work, and it’s even harder for people who are already in a vulnerable situation.”
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These patients are hard to treat
Mary Naylor of the School of Nursing spoke about her work leading an effort to reduce hospitalizations among Medicare patients using “hot spotting,” a model that allocates extra resources to “super-utilizers,” people who need more health care services than the average individual.
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Trump wants law and order front and center
Research by Aurélie Ouss of the School of Arts and Sciences on the consequences of Philadelphia’s “no cash bail” policies was cited.
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IRS audits drop to lowest point in decades
Natasha Sarin of the Law School and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers authored a paper that argued that the IRS could recoup $1 trillion during the next 10 years by increasing audits and investing in information technology.
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The slow march toward the first same-sex couple to have a baby
Marisa Bartolomei of the Perelman School of Medicine commented on the difficulty in creating an embryo with two sets of maternal DNA. “We don’t get the full set of [gene] products that we need to undergo proper development unless we have both a maternal and paternal contribution to a fertilized egg,” she said.
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Border screenings spark travel fears for Iranian Americans amid rising tensions
John Ghazvinian of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about his experience traveling as an Iranian American.
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War with Iran is still less likely than you think
Michael Horowitz of the School of Arts and Sciences and Perry World House wrote about tensions with Iran in the wake of the U.S. attack that killed Gen. Qasem Soleimani. “There will no doubt be consequences—but general war remains unlikely,” Horowitz and his co-author Elizabeth Saunders wrote.
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Trump’s threat to strike Iranian cultural sites puts him in league with ISIS, Taliban
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein of Perry World House and Brian Daniels of the Penn Museum spoke about the administration’s threat to strike Iranian cultural sites. “Just the threat is quite amazing, coming from the president of the United States,” said Zeid.