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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Aaron Richterman of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on his research on a broader array of HIV interventions such as basic income.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that the public has tried to unmask and get back to engaging in normal activities as the pandemic ends.
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Researchers at Penn and North Carolina State University have created a rotini-shaped robot that can tumble through a maze without any help or guidance from a computer or human being.
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Genevieve Kanter of the Perelman School of Medicine commented on a Texas policy that does not require schools to require mask-wearing or to contact trace and alert parents when a child tests positive for COVID-19. “It certainly seems as if the [masking] decision is being made for reasons other than public health,” she said. “These children, even if they remain asymptomatic, will be vectors for COVID, infecting their (vaccinated or not) parents, parents’ coworkers and friends, grandparents.”
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Genevieve Kanter of the Perelman School of Medicine said the current COVID-19 vaccines seem to be holding up against the delta variant. “We may need boosters later on, perhaps in eight to 12 months but not yet,” she said.
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Jonah Berger of the Wharton School spoke about the political shirts worn by rioters at the U.S. Capitol. “People want to express themselves and communicate who they are to others. The same is true for political T-shirts; they express how people feel and show solidarity with others in their tribe,” he said.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center commented on Daniel Dale’s fact check of statements made by President Trump during a speech at the Republican National Convention. “Dale’s rapidly spoken summary and correction of distortions in the Trump acceptance speech was more likely to leave viewers impressed with Dale than it was to help viewers remember the corrections,” she said.
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Paul Cobb of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about the newly discovered remains of a mosque built just a few years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad. “If this mosque is indeed as early as the archaeologists claim,” Cobb said, “it tells us that building a separate place of prayer was an important part of an emerging and distinct Muslim identity.”
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“I think we have a lot of evidence from research on financial conflicts of interest in other areas of health care to know that the influence often is unconscious to the people who are actually experiencing it,” said Matthew McCoy of the Perelman School of Medicine, commenting on the pharmaceutical industry’s influence on health care policies.
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A.T. Charlie Johnson Jr. of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Arts and Sciences hopes to use technology developed by Penn Vet’s Working Dog Center to detect ovarian and other forms of cancer.