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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
David Wolk of the Perelman School of Medicine described the challenges of diagnosing the varied symptoms of Alzheimer’s and the benefits of using neurological imaging to identify affected brain structures.
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The recently-drafted Penn grad aims for the same consistency and athleticism as the star wide receiver who played ten solid seasons with the Green Bay Packers.
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Guthrie Ramsey of the School of Arts and Sciences provided an in-depth analysis of the provocative music video. “Even though we think of popular culture as a space where we escape, [Childish Gambino’s] forcing us to understand that there’s actually nowhere to run,” Ramsey said. “We have to deal with the cultural violence that we have created and continue to sustain.”
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The Perelman School of Medicine’s Ramon Diaz-Arrastia affirmed the importance of studying the likelihood of dementia in veterans with brain injuries in an editorial he co-wrote.
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Adam Grant of the Wharton School said that the demand for “culture fit” in hiring can contribute to a lack of diversity and a prevalence of “groupthink” in the workplace.
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At Friday’s 25th annual Historical Clinicopathological Conference, the Perelman School of Medicine’s Stephen Gluckman announced that Sultan Saladin was most likely killed by typhoid. Gluckman came to the conclusion after ruling out plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, and malaria, which didn’t fit descriptions of Saladin’s symptoms.
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Herman Beavers of the School of Arts and Sciences analyzed the problematic use of the word “lynching” to describe celebrities and politicians convicted in the court of public opinion. Beavers said that casual use of the term diminishes the long and brutal history of anti-black violence in the U.S.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center discussed MSNBC’s lineup, noting Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell’s success in developing a coherent narrative about the Mueller investigation that works to reinforce viewers’ beliefs in the president’s unsuitability.
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PIK Professor Herbert Hovenkamp warned that companies claiming that merging is a necessary preemptive strike against large competitors like Amazon may find that such a claim could be used to validate nearly any merger.
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PIK Professor Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts and Sciences weighed in on assertions that the president had dictated his own clean bill of health to his personal doctor. Moreno said, if the doctor’s claims are valid, that Bornstein should lose his medical license for knowingly lying.