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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Dean of Admissions Whitney Soule discusses the role and relevance of race in Penn’s “holistic” review process.
Penn In the News
Michael E. Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that people moving to the coast overlook increased flooding and storm risks at their peril.
Penn In the News
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet of the School of Arts & Sciences discusses Iran’s long history of mandating what women can wear and the power employed by its “morality police.”
Penn In the News
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center explains why political candidates are questioning the effectiveness of debates.
Penn In the News
PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton says that the digital trail of evidence left by violent criminals needs study, resources, and intervention to avoid exacerbating community trauma and damaging mental health, especially for people of color.
Penn In the News
Yphtach Lelkes of the Annenberg School for Communication says that polarized language between politicians tends to drive mass polarization by stoking self-fulfilling prophecies about a more divided world.
Penn In the News
PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts says that today’s Black maternal health disparities are a reverberation of slavery, an echo of the federally funded health care and welfare programs which led to sterilization abuse.
Penn In the News
Carolyn Kousky of the Wharton School speculates whether America’s investors and companies can align their financial incentives with the needs of global society against escalating climate change.
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Kermit Roosevelt of Penn Carey Law speculates that the early leak of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision would have made it more costly for a justice to change their position.
Penn In the News
Robert Vonderheide of the Perelman School of Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center says a big breakthrough in cancer treatment will come soon.