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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Melissa Wilde of the School of Arts & Sciences pinpoints moments when the Catholic Church changed course.
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Walter G. Ecton of the Graduate School of Education and a Vanderbilt University colleague shared their research on the effects of doctoral-program funding on student diversity. “Given the relative lack of diversity among university faculty, initiatives that attract students from groups that are currently underrepresented in doctoral education carry great benefits for society,” they wrote.
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Jamal J. Elias of the School of Arts & Sciences wrote about the war rug market in Afghanistan, arguing that collectors and journalists tend to mistakenly view the weavings as reflections of the creator’s worldview. Instead, said Elias, it’s the rug brokers and dealers who determine the motifs. “Ultimately, Afghan war rugs are produced for the market,” he wrote.
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Kevin Werbach of the Wharton School wrote about the benefits and hazards of decentralized finance, or DeFi. “DeFi can magnify the already high volatility of cryptocurrencies,” he said.
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Joseph Turow of the Annenberg School for Communication writes about the problems with voice-profiling technology, which companies see as integral to the future of marketing.
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Anna Wexler of the Perelman School of Medicine expressed skepticism about Neuralink, a company developing brain-machine interfaces. “Neuroscience is far from understanding how the mind works, much less having the ability to decode it,” she said.
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Laura Perna and Ph.D. student Taylor Odle of the Graduate School of Education recommended that undergraduates weigh the benefits and drawbacks of working while enrolled in classes before accepting a job. “Working—especially working many hours per week—can be stressful and can harm academic performance and progress,” they wrote.
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Sudev Sheth of the Lauder Institute and School of Arts and Sciences co-authored a piece about Gandhi’s views on business. “Gandhi’s views were constantly evolving in dialogue with the business community, and this is one reason why they remain so relevant today,” he wrote.
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Joshua Plotkin of the School of Arts and Sciences co-authored an article about information gerrymandering and its consequences for democracy. “What we show in our study, mathematically and empirically, is that a party’s influence on a social network can be broken up, in a way analogous to electoral gerrymandering of congressional districts,” he writes.
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The Wharton School’s Kevin Werbach wrote about blockchain and the contradiction between its “allegedly trust-less technology and its trust-needing users.”