Through
4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts argues for dismantling the current “multi-billion-dollar apparatus” of foster care, since the bulk of its investigations and removals penalize specific families for poverty.
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James A. Serpell of the School of Veterinary Medicine discusses the potential value of a United Kingdom study suggesting that dogs can smell stress.
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James Serpell of the School of Veterinary Medicine said he errs on the side of caution when it comes to treating dogs’ mental health issues with pharmaceuticals. "Don't use these drugs on animals unless it's really necessary in order to calm the animal down and prevent the worst symptoms of anxiety,” he said, “and try to think of it as a short-term thing, something that you would do for a while until you find a more satisfactory way of coping with the problem through behavior modification and things like that."
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James Serpell of the School of Veterinary Medicine spoke about how dogs interact with and interpret the world around them, from barking to licking to sniffing. “While we derive most of the information about the world around us through our eyes and ears, dogs can access an additional layer of information via their noses that we are essentially ‘blind’ to,” he said.
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David Abrams of the Law School said the timing of a spike in murders corresponded with changes in policing and cities lifting pandemic stay-at-home orders. “I have not seen any analysis that has found a causal link between movements to change police funding and homicide rates in major cities,” he said.
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Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication spoke about corporate media’s reluctance to confront how their newsrooms covered the Trump era. “We must look seriously at the role they have played in normalizing fascistic politics—as well as the structural factors that cause these institutions to predictably fail in advancing democratic aims,” he said.
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Allison Hoffman of the Law School discussed the array of proposals for U.S. health care systems. “For a decade now, we’ve had a system that has relied on markets and private competition more than any of our peer nations—and that hasn’t worked,” she said. “The [Medicare for All] debate is a revisiting of the question: ‘Are we going to rely on our government to ensure access to health care and what form is it going to take?’”
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The School of Arts and Sciences’ Martin Seligman discussed “homo prospectus,” the instinct to plan ahead that has come to define humans.
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Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education writes about policy now that longtime dictator Robert Mugabe is out of office in Zimbabwe.
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The work of Sarah Tishkoff of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts and Sciences is referenced about genes involved in skin pigmentation.