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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Camille Z. Charles of the School of Arts & Sciences said Black immigrant students are overrepresented at selective U.S. universities relative to Black American students. She said that even though college applications “ask where your parents were born, they're not collecting and sort of storing the information that way because I think it's something that they don't necessarily want to talk about.”
Penn In the News
Amalia Daché of the Graduate School of Education was interviewed about protests and censorship in Cuba. “Cuba has had a political apartheid for 62 years and Cuban people have been repressed, have been silenced, have been put in prison,” she said.
Penn In the News
Thea Gallagher of the Perelman School of Medicine discussed the pandemic’s toll on mental health. Rather than forcing a confident, upbeat exterior to appease others, Gallagher recommends “being real and authentic, and talking about the struggles that you are having.”
Penn In the News
PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts discussed how to address economic inequality during the coronavirus pandemic. “The people who are forced into dangerous work because they have no savings … what about those people?” she asked.
Penn In the News
Patrick J. Brennan spoke about how the Health System is dealing with the coronavirus and what’s needed to prepare for an influx of new patients.
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Philip Hanno of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about the FDA being under pressure to approve the drug Addyi.
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Undergraduate student Ariel Koren of the School of Arts & Sciences is profiled.