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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel says that incessantly preparing for old age mistakes a long life for a worthwhile one.
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Beth Linker of the School of Arts & Sciences traces the history of a poor-posture epidemic in the U.S. which began at the onset of the 20th century.
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Daniel Hopkins of the School of Arts & Sciences says that local politics is nationalizing, with voters more often considering how candidates fit into broader political brands rather than their adeptness at addressing local issues.
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Dennis Culhane of the School of Social Policy & Practice explains how to end modern homelessness, comparing its cost to the $11 billion expense of allowing homelessness to continue.
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Dan Janzen of the School of Arts & Sciences explains how the climate crisis has led to catastrophic declines in insect numbers.
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Jessica Martucci of the School of Arts & Sciences says that historical imperatives endorsed by health authorities rarely translated into meaningful support for women interested in breast-feeding.
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A profile examines the architectural novel “Learning from Las Vegas” co-written by Denise Scott Brown, formerly of the Weitzman School of Design.
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In a Q&A, Fatemeh Shams of the School of Arts & Sciences discusses the importance of Iran’s Kurdish minority in its recent uprising, as well as the benefits and drawbacks of leaderless movements.
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Jeffrey Morris of the Perelman School of Medicine says the efficacy rate of vaccines are actually higher than reported.
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Michael Kearns of the School of Engineering and Applied Science spoke about ethics and artificial intelligence, saying that regulatory agencies “are playing a serious game of catch-up. They don’t understand the technologies that they’re regulating anymore, or its uses, and they have no means of auditing it.”