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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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These activists are training every movement that matters
Daniel Gillion of the School of Arts and Sciences said protests inspired by Momentum’s activist methodology “are becoming very mainstream; these are not fringe events.” However, he said, if there are too many protests, the public may begin to tune out.
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Teaching impeaching: History comes to life in school as teachers seize on this historic moment. Here’s what some are doing—and how
Advice on addressing impeachment in the classroom from Sigal Ben-Porath and Dean Pam Grossman of the Graduate School of Education was cited.
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Move over, ‘latte liberal.’ A new GOP insult invokes goat milk and avocado toast
Diana Mutz of the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about the ways food is used to make distinctions between groups of people. “It’s a way to draw lines between themselves and others—which is a shame, really,” she said. “But these kinds of things do the trick when they are trying to differentiate and divide.”
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Cells that ‘taste’ danger set off immune responses
De’Broski Herbert of the School of Veterinary Medicine spoke about the presence of tuft cells, which are covered in taste receptors, in the lungs of mice infected with influenza.
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Can hiring women police officers make communities safer?
Vice President Maureen Rush of Public Safety, one of the first 100 women to join Philadelphia’s police department, spoke about the role of women in law enforcement.
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Philadelphia science prize goes to climate change and electronics researchers from Penn, UCLA
Charles Kane and Eugene Mele of the School of Arts and Sciences have been honored with the John Scott Award, given annually to innovators in science, for their work developing ways to predict the behavior of atomic particles.
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How Narwhal the ‘unicorn’ puppy may have grown a tail on his head
Margret Casal of the School of Veterinary Medicine explained that the puppy with a tail on its face that went viral is likely the result of another embryo that didn’t fully separate in utero.
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Scientists look to West Point to better understand what it takes to succeed
A team of researchers led by Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts and Sciences examined data from thousands of West Point cadets to assess the attributes that were most predictive of success. Their results “suggest that both cognitive and non-cognitive attributes matter in different ways and at different times,” they wrote.
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Penn Museum redesign aims beyond academics
Julian Siggers of the Penn Museum spoke about the galleries’ reopening. “The collection is too good for it not to be a public museum,” he said. “This is the first time when you will really be able to see how we’ve opened this museum up, deliberately targeting it for public engagement.”
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The 96-year-history of the Equal Rights Amendment
Mary Frances Berry of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about the Equal Rights Amendment and the obstacles that have prevented it from being ratified and added to the Constitution.