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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
PIK Professor Michael Platt and Camille Testard, a Ph.D. student in the Perelman School of Medicine, spoke about their research on how rhesus macaques in Puerto Rico adapted in the wake of Hurricane Maria. “We see this massive surge in the time they spend in proximity to other partners, and their social tolerance increasing toward many different partners,” said Testard. “We saw active building of relationships with individuals that they didn’t really interact with before.”
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Nina Strohminger of the Wharton School commented on a study that explored how classroom discussions about ethics and meat consumption affected student meal-purchasing behaviors. “It's an awesome data set,” said Strohminger.
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Marc Meredith of the School of Arts & Sciences offered predictions for how the 2020 presidential candidates will conduct their campaigns. “I expect both campaigns will structure their campaign events to fit into their overall narrative about how the county should be responding to the COVID-19 crisis,” he said.
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The work of Adam Grant of the Wharton School is referenced in this article on the phases of emotions when faced with the deaths of others.
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James Serpell of the School of Veterinary Medicine said an uptick in dog anxiety stems in part from owners failing to properly socialize their pets. “It’s a sort of helicopter-parenting concept applied to dogs,” he said. “Animals are not getting enough exposure to normal social interactions, play behavior and roughhousing with other dogs. That’s asking for trouble.”
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PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel and Saurabh Jha of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the potential hazards of using artificial intelligence in medicine.
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Akhilesh Reddy of the Perelman School of Medicine commented on research that explored the effects of sleep deprivation on the brain, saying that even though the study was performed on mice, the animals’ brains have proved to be a reasonable substitute for human brains in past experiments.
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Stephen Pettigrew of the School of Arts and Sciences said a new study that observed 29% longer wait times for voters in predominately black neighborhoods “was a totally, totally different way to try to measure this problem than what we’ve seen before.”
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Jonathan Epstein of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on how immunotherapy has transformed cancer care.
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Stephen Morse of the Law School weighed in on the use of neuroscience in courtrooms. He believes that in a legal setting, neuroscience cannot adequately explain criminal activity: “if there is a disjunct between what the neuroscience shows and what the behavior shows, you’ve got to believe the behavior.”