4/22
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Pete the Parrot Is Getting a Prosthetic Foot. Then He Has to Learn to Live With It.
La’Toya Latney and Jonathan Wood of the School of Veterinary Medicine are quoted about a parrot receiving a prosthetic foot and how he will cope with it.
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Healing Health Care With Two Adversaries Joining Hands
Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School is interviewed about the health-care crisis and ways to reorganize health-care delivery.
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Audio: Searching for a Fairer Way to Distribute Donor Livers
David Goldberg of the Perelman School of Medicine talks about organ donation rates.
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How Russia Keeps Exploiting Anti-black Racism in the U.S.
Jennifer Wilson of the School of Arts and Sciences says, “Russia often looked to use anti-black racism in the U.S. as a way of exposing what they believed was the moral bankruptcy of Western capitalism and the hypocrisy of American ‘democracy.'”
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Republicans Should Gladly Pay for My Preexisting Condition
Guy David of the Wharton School comments on the benefits of a health-care risk pool.
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How a Health Care App Is Changing Access for the LGBTQ Community
Second-year students Phil Williams, Jun Jeon and Naveen Jain of the Perelman School of Medicine are featured for developing SpectrumScores, a health-care app that helps connect LGBTQ people.
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Violent Crimes and Murders Increased in 2016 for a Second Consecutive Year, FBI Says
Richard Berk of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about crime that occurs on a local level. He says, "Some cities that have more problems than others, and in those cities some neighborhoods have more problems than others, and to talk about national anything is just politics."
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Audio: Phone Towers Saving Vaccines and Children
Harvey Rubin of the Perelman School of Medicine talks about pioneering the ‘Energize the Chain’ Movement, which utilizes phone towers in parts of Africa to power vaccine refrigerators.
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Taking a Knee Is Not Enough: NFL Players Should Withhold Their Labor Until Kaepernick Gets a Spot on a Roster
Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education writes about professional football players taking a knee during the national anthem in support of Colin Kaepernick’s silent protest of police brutality against African-Americans.
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We Must Teach Our Kids How to Disagree
Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education writes about the importance of teaching children how to disagree and how to discuss controversial questions.