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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that counteracting conspiracy beliefs is important because belief in conspiracies can encourage people to act in harmful ways.
Penn In the News
Benjamin Keys of the Wharton School says that growing risks from climate change and rising reinsurance costs have caused insurers to raise premiums and pull out of markets, abandoning homeowners.
Penn In the News
Kotaro Sasaki of the School of Veterinary Medicine thinks that producing human gametes could become technically feasible within a decade.
Penn In the News
Scott Hensley of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues are developing and testing a vaccine tailored to the current bird flu strain based on their previous 20-subtype mRNA flu vaccine.
Penn In the News
Research by Jer Clifton and postdoc Nicholas Kerry of the School of Arts & Sciences suggests that the main difference between the political left and right is the belief that the world is inherently hierarchical.
Penn In the News
An article co-written by Sam Clarke of the School of Arts & Sciences examines a study by Chuyan Qu and colleagues in Elizabeth Brannon’s lab at SAS, which shows that children as young as 5 can perform approximate multiplication.
Penn In the News
College of Arts and Sciences fourth-year Sarah Kane discusses her use of data analysis and machine learning to circumvent her blindness in studying astronomy.
Penn In the News
A study by Hyun (Michel) Koo of the School of Dental Medicine and colleagues shows that conglomerations of fungi and bacteria can work together to “walk” and “leap” across the surface of teeth, quickly spreading decay.
Penn In the News
Douglas H. Smith and Jean-Pierre Dollé of the Perelman School of Medicine compare the speed at which different species of megafauna extend their nerve fibers.
Penn In the News
In a Q&A, PIK Professor Dolores Albarracín discusses a report in which she calls for K-12 education to depoliticize health issues, promote health equity and disease prevention, and provide information about navigating the health care system.