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Social Studies: Asian Americans and affirmative action, COVID on the frontier, gender roles
Research led by Stephen Pettigrew of the School of Arts & Sciences found that longer wait times at the polls in 2012 discouraged voters from participating in elections in 2014.
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U.S. airlines isolated in bid to scrap change fees forever
It’s likely that U.S. airlines will reinstate waived flight-change fees once demand returns, said John Zhang of the Wharton School. “This isn’t a forever kind of thing.”
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CDC asks latest to plan for potential vaccine distribution starting in late October
Paul Offit of the Perelman School of Medicine said it’s unlikely that a coronavirus vaccine will be ready by the end of the year given that Phase 3 trials have only just begun. Furthermore, he said, insufficient trials could damage not only public health but public trust in vaccines.
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What you need to know about coronavirus on Wednesday, September 2
Kenneth Foster of the School of Engineering and Applied Science debunked conspiracy theories that link 5G networks and radio frequencies to the spread of COVID-19. "There's nothing different in terms of exposure," he said.
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Wisconsin board proposed to review deadly encounters involving police
John Hollway of the Law School said Penn has been working with lawmakers and police departments to develop programs that would investigate incidents of police violence and make recommendations to prevent them from reoccurring. “This is what we call forward accountability,” he said. “How do we prevent this from happening again, as opposed to how do we heal the pain from what’s been caused in the past.”
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Two sets of brothers spent decades in prison. This may be their last chance to get out
Marissa Bluestine of the Law School said allowing witnesses to identify potential assailants face-to-face, as opposed to in a formal police lineup, is problematic because it can easily produce false identifications.
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China’s push to limit Mongolian language sparks protests
Christopher P. Atwood of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about language changes to education in China. “Minority-language education is now being replaced by a new model of ‘bilingual education’ in which Chinese is the language of instruction and minority languages are at most a topic of instruction, one hour a day,” he said.
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How college activists are trying to win the youth vote remotely
Senior Owen Voutsinas-Klose and Junior Eva Gonzalez spoke about how student activists are organizing their peers amid the pandemic. “I think we’ve definitely seen a lot of people wanting to get more engaged, and, you know, obviously voting is a part of that,” said Gonzalez.
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Cellphone tracking can help predict pandemic’s spread
Joshua Baker of the Perelman School of Medicine authored a study that found that counties with greater declines in workplace cellphone activity during stay-at-home orders had lower COVID-19 rates. “This analysis supports the incorporation of anonymized cellphone location data into modeling strategies to predict at-risk counties across the U.S. before outbreaks become too great,” he said.
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Finding poll workers was hard before coronavirus. Now, America has a huge challenge
Stephen Pettigrew of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about staffing for November’s election. “In normal times it’s challenging to recruit poll workers; in a pandemic, it’s even worse,” he said.