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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Colleges scramble to prepare for possible end of affirmative action
Dean Whitney Soule of Admissions discusses Penn’s free online course for high school students wanting to learn more about post-high school options and the college-admissions process.
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A young boy’s nightmare diagnosis, and the $3 million one-time treatment that will likely save his life
PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel decries the high cost of gene therapies.
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Republicans taking page from Democrats when talking about effect of investing rule that allows retirement funds to consider climate risks
Witold Henisz of the Wharton School says that ESG investing is about going through fundamental analysis on financially material factors, not political or ideological ones.
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Black and Hispanic patients with terminal cancer receive fewer opioids for pain, new study finds
Salima Meghani of the School of Nursing says that wide misapplication of CDC opioid guidelines has led to significant opioid access issues and race-based disparities for people with chronic pain.
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What we get wrong about the Fourth of July
Kermit Roosevelt of Penn Carey Law writes that we should celebrate the nation on the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address and not the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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The unsung Black Patriots of Revolutionary Boston
Grant Stanton of the School of Arts & Sciences says that it’s time to remember the names of a group of formerly enslaved Black men who led the first organized movement for abolition in America’s history.
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‘This is a different phase.’ It may be time for a reset on kids, school, and COVID
David Rubin of the Perelman School of Medicine co-developed new proposed guidelines for managing COVID-19 in schools, which include ending testing for asymptomatic children. “The issues around prolonging social isolation or continuing to deny access to in-person education are so far greater than the risk of the virus itself. Not just to the children but to their families themselves, particularly now that people can get vaccinated,” he said.
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‘Gen Z is coming of age with real purpose’: College students set record for voting in 2020 election
Harrison Feinman, a College of Arts and Sciences senior and director of Penn Leads the Vote, said he was encouraged by the rise in voting among college students. “People are finally starting to understand about the importance of voting and how that is a form of activism,” he said.
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Here’s how to fix the Fed’s ‘culture of corruption’
Daniel Taylor of the Wharton School weighed in on stock trades made by Robert Kaplan, head of the Dallas Federal Reserve. “I think it is shameful that a professor, and former senior associate dean of HBS, who has written on government accountability and leadership, viewed it as acceptable to engage in these trades simply because he could, rather than consider whether he should,” said Taylor.
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How parents can help prevent campus sexual assault
Susan B. Sorenson of the School of Social Policy & Practice said parents can help prevent campus sexual assaults by asking college administrators about the topic. “It gives the message that parents care about this stuff as much as they do about academic advising and the dorm rooms and the policing or security system,” she said.