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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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How two Mass. lawyers are helping DACA recipients stay in the US
Carlos Águilar González of the School of Arts & Sciences says that streamlining the D3 authorization process for DACA recipients may limit the number of people who can benefit by focusing only on the most prestigious and educated.
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Two public radio stations. Two different business models. One future of public radio in Boston hangs in the balance
Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication says that there’s a greater need for public broadcasting than ever before, especially as entire sectors of the commercial news media system are crumbling.
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Social studies: Common sense is actually rare; the problem with grade inflation; when you might as well be a monk
Researchers at Penn found that few of the beliefs that an individual perceives as common sense are widely held, although the accuracy of such beliefs doesn’t vary much across age, race, gender, income, education, or partisanship.
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You should still get the COVID-19 vaccine. The Nobel Prize winner who helped discover it explains why
Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine, who won the Nobel Prize along with Katalin Karikó, discusses the backlash against vaccinations and whether to receive the latest COVID vaccine.
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Gregg Bigda is the poster boy of police brutality in Springfield. But the city can’t—or won’t—fire him
A 2021 Penn analysis of all complaints across the Chicago Police Department revealed that on average, officers generated 1.5 total complaints and 0.2 use of force complaints in a five-year period.
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Blackstone president’s foundation awards $15 million to cancer researchers in Greater Boston
Jon and Mindy Gray are noted for their cancer-related donations to the Perelman School of Medicine’s Basser Center, which they established in 2012.
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Social studies: Things that don’t change across generations; reliance on local news; when to pray for rain
A Penn study finds that Black and non-college-educated Americans tend to rely on local news, especially local TV news, more than non-local and online news.
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A rebuke to current admissions practices opens the door to new challenges
Tobias Wolff of Penn Carey Law says that the Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision has wiped out decades of clear guidance for how colleges and universities can pursue diversity.
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‘There’s no words’: Relatives feel victimized by alleged scheme to sell donated human remains
Aaron Schwartz of the Perelman School of Medicine says that the alleged thefts of human remains by a former Harvard Medical School manager are a breach of trust.
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Cambridge’s COVID experiment at giving poor families $500 month will continue, and grow
Amy Beth Castro of the School of Social Policy & Practice says that Massachusetts is an ideal laboratory for guaranteed income programs.