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What is race? It isn’t skin color, as some young people are learning
PIK Professor Sarah Tishkoff gave a guest lecture at a New Jersey private school about the social construction of race as a biological category. “I feel like we have to talk about it because if we don’t, it’s just going to promote misunderstanding,” she said.
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Why Trump’s cruelty doesn’t deter migrants
Fernando Chang-Muy and second-year student Adam Garnick of the Law School wrote an op-ed about why Honduran migrants are still pursuing U.S. asylum in spite of harsh policies. “Based on what we saw and heard, to actually deter migrants, America must go to the root of the problem,” they wrote. “That would mean a recommitment to support Honduras and the other Central American countries producing the vast majority of asylum seekers.”
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Where all the 2020 presidential candidates have lived — and where none have
Daniel Hopkins of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about historical shifts in the importance of political candidates’ hometown affiliations.
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Is bias keeping female, minority patients from getting proper care for their pain?
Salimah Meghani of the School of Nursing spoke about physician bias in treating minority patients for pain. “Since pain is subjective and relies on patients’ own testimony,” she said, “disproportionately trusting the self-reports of some groups over others can result in discriminatory care.”
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One of the oldest mosques in the world was just discovered in Israel
Paul Cobb of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about the newly discovered remains of a mosque built just a few years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad. “If this mosque is indeed as early as the archaeologists claim,” Cobb said, “it tells us that building a separate place of prayer was an important part of an emerging and distinct Muslim identity.”
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Philly ‘Host Home’ program aims to slash LGBTQ youth homelessness, shelter costs
Recent alum and President’s Engagement Prize winner Brendan Taliaferro was highlighted for his Host Home program, which connects young LGBTQ people experiencing homelessness with volunteer households and social workers.
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Lorene Cary’s ‘Ladysitting’
Lorene Cary of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about her new memoir, “Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century.”
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Hong Kong protests ‘unsettling’ China as Beijing moots troop deployments to suppress protests, experts say
“It’s very hard to sustain these kinds of protests,” said Jacques deLisle of the Law School of political unrest in Hong Kong. “There are some people who I think could be persuaded to back down or to at least give the government another chance if it looks like they really have made some concessions.”
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5 questions: Penn doctors study why elderly patients become confused after surgery
Lee A. Fleisher of the Perelman School of Medicine and Rebecca Trotta of the School of Nursing discussed post-surgical cognitive changes in older adults. “The severity is really a function of what their baseline state is. So if they come in with some memory decline, what people might call mild memory problems, and they’re frail, they are at the greatest risk,” said Fleisher. “On the other side, a higher education level is protective. People who are more active, physically and mentally, are less at risk.”
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8 possible reasons your dog isn’t eating
Megan McClosky of the School of Veterinary Medicine discusses various reasons dogs may avoid eating, including stomach aches, toothaches, stress, and more serious conditions.