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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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How to help your anxious partner—And yourself
Sandy Capaldi and Cory Newman of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the challenges of supporting a partner with anxiety. “A lot of people with anxiety disorders understandably view anxiety as the enemy,” Newman said. “Actually, it’s not. The real enemy is avoidance. Anxiety causes [people] to avoid things—like applying to schools, flying to a cousin’s wedding—[that can lead to] an enriched life. And that causes depression.”
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PhillyBloco to celebrate its first Brazilian summer carnival
Michael Stevens of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about the upcoming PhillyBloco Summer Carnaval, which will feature a collaborative performance by Stevens’ Brazilian music band and students from the samba school he founded.
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Bernie Sanders thinks media is unfair, so he created his own
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center commented on Bernie Sanders’ livestreamed campaign programming, which seeks to reach supporters without a media filter. “I think Bernie Sanders became accustomed to the level of news attention that a fresh face attacking the establishment normally gets and now thinks, [if] he got that attention in 2016, he should be getting it now, and, if not, there must be something wrong with the press,” she said.
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‘Why not fly over it?’ Uber picks New Jersey firms in ambitious bid to beat traffic congestion
Rahul Mangharam of the School of Engineering and Applied Science commented on Uber’s new air taxi venture. “It’s going to be a very congested sky,” he said. “You want to make sure that each flight plan is safe by design, and that even if they do mess up for some reason, they have a fallback option.”
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Were U.S. diplomats attacked in Cuba? Brain study deepens mystery.
Ragini Verma of the Perelman School of Medicine finds that the brains of U.S. diplomats who were struck with a mysterious illness while stationed in Cuba have undergone changes that are unlike any known disorder.
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White Americans say they’re less prejudiced
Dan Hopkins of the School of Arts and Sciences wrote about his research, conducted in collaboration with recent alumna Samantha Washington, which found that “the average levels of anti-black and anti-Hispanic prejudice expressed by white Americans actually dropped from 2016 to 2018.”
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Small-animal irradiation platform performs preclinical proton studies
Eric Diffenderfer of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on his lab’s work on proton therapy.
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Why dynamic and personalized pricing strategies haven’t taken over retail—yet
Santiago Gallino of the Wharton School spoke about the practical problems with personalized and demand-based dynamic pricing structures in retail settings. “Say you end up buying a video game for three times the regular price, and then you want to return it,” he said. “You show up in January and they are going to give you three times the regular price of a product that now they cannot sell for that?”
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New Jersey anti-Semitism bill would limit free discussion
Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education writes about the legal risks for American universities that boycott Israel.
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More younger adults being diagnosed with colorectal cancer, scientists warn
Chyke Doubeni of the Perelman School of Medicine commented on an uptick in colorectal cancer diagnoses in young people. “It is unknown whether screening for sporadic cases in a group with such low disease rate can result in a favorable balance of harms and benefits,” he said.