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Penn will offer public high school seniors in Philly a free four-week college and career prep program
Valarie E. Swain-Cade McCoullum, vice provost for student engagement, spoke about Penn’s Rising Senior Summer Academy, a free program for local high school students.
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As movie theaters reopen, they’re tackling a role they never expected to play: psychologist
Deborah Small of the Wharton School said the primary way to make people comfortable adhering to COVID-19 safety practices is to see many others in their peer group taking the same steps. “The twist now,” she said, “is that we’re told to avoid crowds.”
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How the IRS could begin to fix the tax gap
Natasha Sarin of the Law School and Wharton School and a Harvard University colleague wrote an op-ed about how the IRS can recoup billions in lost revenue by pursuing high-income non-filers.
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Amid COVID-19, church killings anniversary, Charleston Black history museum keeps eye on 2022 opening
Howard Stevenson of the Graduate School of Education said a comprehensive history education can help people “navigate racism today” and better understand intergenerational trauma.
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What COVID-19 computer models are telling colleges about the fall
Philip Gressman of the School of Arts & Sciences co-authored research that modeled how a large university might experience the effects of COVID-19 on campus.
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2020 or 1968: Campaign ads echo another fraught election year
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center said the political atmosphere may continue to shift before November, which makes it hard to design campaign ads. “It makes sense to try to harvest the news agenda to activate your constituency,” she said.
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COVID-19 research opens to little-studied group: Pregnant patients
Katharine Bar and Michal Elovitz of the Perelman School of Medicine are opening the COVID-19 convalescent-plasma trials they’re conducting to pregnant people. “If we don’t enroll them in trials, we won’t have therapies for them when they are sick,” said Bar.
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Trump vs. Biden: How COVID-19 will affect voting for president
Marc Meredith of the School of Arts & Sciences offered predictions for how the 2020 presidential candidates will conduct their campaigns. “I expect both campaigns will structure their campaign events to fit into their overall narrative about how the county should be responding to the COVID-19 crisis,” he said.
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Social media’s ‘infodemic’
Dominic Sisti and Raina Merchant of the Perelman School of Medicine and Alison Buttenheim of the School of Nursing discussed the role of social media in public health.
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COVID-19 waivers emerge as flashpoint in absence of liability shield
Tom Baker of the Law School spoke about COVID-19 liability waivers, which can prevent lawsuits even when not legally binding. “People feel that they signed it so therefore they don’t even talk to a lawyer, even if there are some technical details that aren’t well worked out,” he said.