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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Gad Allon of the Wharton School writes that the ongoing shortage of baby formula is a crisis of huge proportions for many American parents.
Penn In the News
Andy Tan of the Annenberg School for Communication co-writes an article about how copycat cannabis edibles, which have colorful packages that mimic popular snacks and candy, have come under scrutiny.
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Sameed Khatana of the Perelman School of Medicine says extreme heat is associated with a higher mortality rate across the contiguous United States.
Penn In the News
Jules Lipoff of the Perelman School of Medicine writes that staggering costs of health care force some people to resort to crowdsourcing to afford their medical care.
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PIK Professor Jonathan D. Moreno and Stephen N. Xenakis, a member of the executive board of The Center for Ethics & the Rule of Law, pen an op-ed arguing that there is no validity to those who claim the superiority of democratic institutions in collecting and using military intelligence. “In any setting, sound decision-making requires that leaders rely on the best possible inputs for information, situational awareness, and military intelligence,” they write.
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William Burke-White of the Law School wrote an opinion piece about Vladimir Putin’s relationship to the international legal system. “The collective global rejection of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has actually made that system stronger, unifying it in a shared commitment to sovereignty, rights and law,” Burke-White wrote. “Putin unwittingly has given the international order exactly what it needed to hold him to account.”
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Henry Kranzler of the Perelman School of Medicine and Gideon Nave of the Wharton School spoke about their research on alcohol’s effects on the brain. “Although the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism recommends that women consume an average of no more than one drink per day, recommended limits for men are twice that, an amount that exceeds the consumption level associated in the study with decreased brain volume,” he said.
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Kermit Roosevelt of the Law School said the Reconstruction Acts that followed the Civil War marked a rebirth of the United States. “A small number of brave men and women risked their lives to fight for the rights we now hold dear — not Revolutionaries fighting the British in 1776, but Black Americans fighting Confederates in 1863,” he wrote. “That is the moment a nation dedicated to equality was conceived.”
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PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel has spoken out in favor of vaccine mandates. “Many front-line workers have died from COVID and contracting COVID in the workplace. They need protection, and ... mandating vaccination is a quite reasonable protection,” he said.
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Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication weighed in on the relationship between the media and the Biden administration. “They don’t want to have the same relationship that the Trump administration had, and I don’t think they do,” said Pickard.