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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Ed Brockenbrough of the Graduate School of Education said Pride organizers’ efforts to promote the Black Lives Matter movement don’t go far enough to address racism in the LGBTQ community. "Activism in Black and brown queer communities has been happening for a long time without full buy-in from white gatekeepers of queer resources," he said.
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Cynthia Otto of the School of Veterinary Medicine spoke about efforts to train dogs to sniff out COVID-19. “We need to first confirm that there is an odor associated with the virus and that we can detect it in the samples,” she said.
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Jacques deLisle of the Law School and School of Arts & Sciences says Tsai Ing-wen, the recently re-elected president of Taiwan, will probably reference political unrest in Hong Kong in her inaugural speech. “I think she has to walk a fine line in how much to reference the Hong Kong situation which obviously is key to her re-election but neuralgic to Beijing,” he said.
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Sarah Paoletti of the Law School spoke about the ramifications of a federal court’s ruling that Ken Cuccinelli’s appointment as acting director at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services wasn’t legal. “I think it does call into question all of his policies. I think the challenge is [to find out] which policies are under his name, and which policies are more broadly issued—or maybe prompted by him, proposed by him—but ultimately issued by the Department of Homeland Security,” she said.
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Marcia Brose of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about using precision medicine to treat patients with cancer. “We’re talking about targeting cells at the very core of what made them a cancer to begin with,” she said.
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Jonah Berger of the Wharton School spoke about the factors that contributes to baby name selection. “Names say more about the parents than the kids,” he said. “How unique parents want to be, where in the country they were when the child was born, and what influences around them shape their lives.”
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The School of Arts and Sciences’ Ian Lustick analyzed the use of chemical weapons in Syria, stating that the attack, which targeted women and children, was a way to “panic the civilians into leaving and cut the ground underneath the rebels.”
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Sam Chandan of the Wharton School says, “Chinese investors are the newest players on the scene, but they have very quickly grown to become the dominant player in those gateway markets.”
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center shares her opinion on the performance of candidates who participated in the Republican presidential debate.
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Jean Bennett and Manzar Ashtari of the Perelman School of Medicine are cited for studying gene therapy used to restore vision that also strengthens visual processing pathways in the brain.