4/22
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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You’re probably not being microwaved right now
The School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Kenneth Foster described claims that a classified microwave weapon was used to injure diplomats as unlikely, due to the impossibility of producing radiation powerful enough to cause neurological damage.
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Desperate GOP twists Obama phrase into political attack line
PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel discussed the debate surrounding changes to the U.S. health care system. “Unlike a single-payer plan that forces people into a government system, Medicare-for-all offers lots of choices,” said Emanuel.
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Desperate GOP twists Obama phrase into political attack line
PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel discussed the debate surrounding changes to the U.S. health care system. “Unlike a single-payer plan that forces people into a government system, Medicare-for-all offers lots of choices,” said Emanuel.
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Trump loses a battle in his war on truth
The Annenberg Public Policy Center’s Kathleen Hall Jamieson said, of the status of truth in contemporary politics, that “checks and balances can still forestall or prevent unjustified action in domestic affairs (assuming that those in the Congress and the courts retain their respect for the knowable and known).”
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Audio: Jeremy Siegel on Fundamental Indexing
Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School talks about fundamental index ETFs.
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Nagging Patients Aren’t to Blame for Overtesting in Medicine
Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School comments on leading a study about cancer patients requesting medical treatment.
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Almost a Quarter of Reported Sexual Assaults at Colleges Don’t Get Hearings
Colleges don’t have a reputation for handling sexual assault cases well.
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Dartmouth Considering Campus Ban on Serving Hard Liquor
Dartmouth College is considering banning hard liquor on campus as part of a series of measures to curb student alcohol abuse and sexual assault. President Philip Hanlon is expected to propose the change in a speech Thursday, according to a person familiar with the recommendations who asked not to be identified because they’re confidential.
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Women Deterred From Many Fields by Stereotypes of ‘Brilliance’
Jerry Jacobs of the School of Arts & Sciences says, “Women tend to think they have to be the next Einstein before they become a physicist.”
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The Black Hebrews and Israel
Dean John Jackson of the School of Social Policy & Practice is mentioned for his book Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem.