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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Joshua Baker of the Perelman School of Medicine authored a study that found that counties with greater declines in workplace cellphone activity during stay-at-home orders had lower COVID-19 rates. “This analysis supports the incorporation of anonymized cellphone location data into modeling strategies to predict at-risk counties across the U.S. before outbreaks become too great,” he said.
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Ravi Parikh of the Perelman School of Medicine said the use of machine learning in health care can be a double-edged sword. "Even though you might have an AI that's accurate on the whole, if it's mischaracterizing an outcome for a specific group of patients you really have to question whether it's worth it," he said.
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Catherine McDonald of the School of Nursing spoke about how to teach teens to not use cell phones while driving. “Education, policy, and enforcement are [all] key. Parents need to model safe driving behavior, including no cellphone use while driving, well before their teen reaches driving age,” she said.
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Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School recommended that job applicants older than 50 assure younger managers that they’re comfortable with the power dynamic. “The big thing to keep in mind is that the person supervising you or making the hiring decision may well be younger than you are, and insecure about supervising someone with more experience,” he said. “So it is important to let them know you are OK with the role you're applying for, that you don't want their job and that you are expecting to take direction from them.”
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Postdoc Dominik Stecula of the Annenberg School for Communication said it was “worrying” to see so much misinformation about vaccines on social media. The study he led found that nearly 1 in 5 American adults has a false belief about vaccines.
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Matthew Bidwell of the Wharton School spoke about corporate efforts to train workforces. “U.S. corporations actually paying to train people is somewhat unorthodox because it's something they've historically resisted,” he said. “But saying, ‘This is a government or university problem to solve,’ means there's probably nothing that's going to happen for five or 10 years. Waiting for the government or education isn’t going to fill jobs by next quarter.”
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Susan Levy of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the role of families in supporting autistic children. “They also need the support of the professional team, the clinicians, educators and therapists who are working alongside them,” she said.
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Alexander Stahn of the Perelman School of Medicine led a study that found a volume decrease in the hippocampi of explorers who spent 14 months at a research station in Antarctica. “It was an average of about 7%, which is really big in terms of brain changes,” he said.
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Yvette Bordeaux and Kristine Rabberman of the School of Arts and Sciences’ College of Liberal and Professional Studies spoke about the educational opportunities surrounding the study of climate change.
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Christos Coutifaris and Clarisa Gracia of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about patients’ fertility options after cancer treatment.