Through
4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Ryan Baker of the Graduate School of Education recommends educational leaders should ask three key questions about technology before investing.
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Ali Nabavizadeh of the School of Veterinary Medicine commented on research that found evidence of respiratory infections in dinosaurs. “This paper provides yet another piece of evidence to show just how modern dinosaurs—the birds—are biologically so similar to their extinct non-avian dinosaurian relatives, even to the point of showing similar diseases,” he said.
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Research by PIK Professor Shelly Berger and Roberto Bonasio of the Perelman School of Medicine found a protein in the brains of ants is responsible for regulating social behavior. “Kr-h1 is required to maintain the boundaries between social castes and to ensure that workers continue to work while gamergates continue to act like queens,” said Berger.
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Robert Seyfarth of the School of Arts & Sciences weighed in on a new study that found naked mole-rat colonies have unique vocal signatures. “Mole-rats have this incredible society,” he said. “It looks like their vocal communication, and the way their brain organizes vocalizations, has evolved to fit the demands of that society.”
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Christina Bax of the Perelman School of Medicine commented on a study that tested different types of face masks. It’s exciting “to see that their team was able to use the laser light scattering method to test face masks and to show the efficacy of numerous types of masks,” she said.
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Billy Fleming of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design compared a new “green stimulus” proposal to the 2009 American Recover and Reinvestment Act, which he says was too small and which funded projects that didn’t excite the public.
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Hans-Peter Kohler of the School of Arts and Sciences explained falling birth rates, saying, “There is a broader transformation in young adulthood where there is an increasing prominence in education, career building, human capital, and so forth so that children tend to be desired later in life.”
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Robert Meyer of the Wharton School spoke about excessive or preemptive hurricane preparedness. “The downside of people preemptively reacting way before they need to, many days in advance, is that you get the wrong people preparing—which absorbs resources,” he said.
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Reviewing the results of a study exploring the relationship between cell phones and cancer, Kenneth Foster of the School of Engineering and Applied Science remains unconvinced of potential dangers. “Health agencies are saying that if there’s something there, it’s probably so small that there’s not likely to be a large effect on the population,” Foster said.
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Aaron Roth of the School of Engineering and Applied Science explains “differential privacy” in relation to pollsters.