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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Neel Chokshi of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on how preventive diet measures help in the long term.
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Susan Sorenson of the School of Social Policy & Practice wrote an opinion piece about how parents can talk to their daughters about avoiding and/or surviving campus sexual assault. “If this conversation makes you uncomfortable now, imagine what it would be like to talk to her after a sexual assault,” she wrote.
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Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about the giant comet they recently discovered. “There is no possibility of this thing getting any closer to Earth than Saturn gets,” said Bernstein.
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PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel and research coordinators Matthew Guido and Amaya Diana wrote an opinion piece calling for vaccine mandates in the private sector. “The mandates are ethical, providing huge benefits that outweigh risks, and higher immunization rates maximize the vaccine’s benefits in the workplace and community,” they wrote.
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Marci Hamilton of the School of Arts & Sciences wrote an opinion piece calling for President Biden to establish a national commission on child sex abuse in order to address the problem’s systemic factors.
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Gary Bernstein of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about the giant comet he and Ph.D. candidate Pedro Bernardinelli discovered. "We have the privilege of having discovered perhaps the largest comet ever seen—or at least larger than any well-studied one—and caught it early enough for people to watch it evolve as it approaches and warms up," Bernstein said.
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Anthea Butler of the School of Arts & Sciences commented on how some authorities have hesitated to name the Atlanta spa shootings as a racist attack. “Many of us can see through this racist mess that the police are trying to say isn’t racially motivated,” she wrote. “Let’s be clear. This is terrorism. It’s murder. It’s AAPI hatred and vilification. It is racist.”
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Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about developing a universal flu vaccine. “Maybe it's a vaccine we start giving our kids so we prevent influenza in the future,” he said. “In the meantime, we'll test it in adults and see if adults who have seen influenza many times make a protective immune response.”
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Matthew Levendusky of the School of Arts & Sciences and Annenberg Public Policy Center and Dominik Stecula of Colorado State University, a former APPC postdoc, wrote about an experiment that successfully used short conversations between Americans with different political views to reduce partisan hostility.
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Athletics Director M. Grace Calhoun released a statement about the NCAA’s decision to delay voting on changes to Division I rules that would allow student athletes to profit off of their own names, images, and likenesses. “The Council remains fully committed to modernizing Division I rules in ways that benefit all student-athletes,” she said. “Unfortunately, external factors require this pause, and the Council will use this time to enhance the proposals.”