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Penn in the News
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How to study climate change in college
Yvette Bordeaux and Kristine Rabberman of the School of Arts and Sciences’ College of Liberal and Professional Studies spoke about the educational opportunities surrounding the study of climate change.
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Warren’s days at Rutgers and Penn
Stephen Burbank of Carey Law and other former colleagues discussed Elizabeth Warren’s academic career and the evolution of her political views. “It was generally thought that she was the best teacher on what is, and what had been, a very strong teaching faculty,” said Burbank.
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As prosecutors take larger role in reversing wrongful convictions, Philadelphia DA exonerates 10 men wrongly imprisoned for murder
Marissa Bluestine of Carey Law’s Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice spoke about the rise of conviction integrity units. “Every week I’ll get calls from DAs or innocence organizations around the country,” she said. “It’s not just a flash-in-the-pan kind of thing. And it’s not just the ‘progressive’ DAs. Some have been in office for decades.”
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How old are you really? Elysium Health will tell you—for $500
Joseph Baur of the Perelman School of Medicine said the startup Elysium Health’s claims that they can make cells behavior as though they were younger is “one of these things that is based mostly on benefits in mouse models. I think it’s a wide open question how beneficial this will ultimately turn out to be in humans.”
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The new Penn Museum: Thousands of years in the making
The Penn Museum’s re-opening celebration takes place this weekend. “What this museum does is tell the story of who we are and where we came from,” said director Julian Siggers. “And we designed our galleries with, very much, that in mind.”
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Where did all the men go? In Philly, women outnumber them by 90,000 — the widest ‘gender gap’ among major U.S. cities.
Janet Chrzan and Adriana Perez of the School of Nursing hypothesized about the reasons women are outliving men in Philadelphia. “Women are tougher,” said Chrzan. “They have better immune systems, and they tend to survive better than men in every society.”
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Super Bowl ticket surprise for Penn football players who gave gift of life
Sam Philippi and Anthony Lotti are two of the five Quaker football players in the past 12 years who have given the gift of life to total strangers, donating bone marrow after being matched in their yearly drive in conjunction with the Andy Talley Bone Marrow Foundation.
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Super Bowl ticket surprise for UPenn football players who gave gift of life
Football players Sam Philippi, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences from Trabuco Canyon, California, and Anthony Lotti, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences from Freehold, New Jersey, were surprised with tickets to this year’s Super Bowl as thanks for their bone marrow donations.
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Veterans with PTSD struggle to parent, but help is available
Leah Blain of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the difficulties of parenting for veterans with PTSD. “That feeling being jumpy or on guard—you can imagine how that is going to translate with the kiddos. They have so much energy, which is wonderful, but it is a lot to process all the time if your symptoms are working all the time,” she said.
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The W.P. Carey Foundation makes record $125 million donation to the University of Pennsylvania Law School
The Law School has been renamed after receiving a $125 million gift from the W.P. Carey Foundation. “We are grateful for and inspired by their leadership and their commitment to the University,” said President Amy Gutmann.