4/22
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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The new Bridgerton prequel is ‘fiction inspired by fact’. So who was the real Queen Charlotte?
Ania Loomba of the School of Arts & Sciences says that a person historically described as a Moor or “blackamoor” wasn’t necessarily Black.
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World Heritage—too much of a good thing?
PIK Professor Lynn Meskell, also of the Penn Museum, joins a radio conversation to discuss how the World Heritage Convention has become a victim of its own success.
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How should cancer immunotherapy be used?
Ravi Parikh of the Perelman School of Medicine was interviewed about his research on the use of new and expensive immunotherapy medications to treat cancer patients considered to be ineligible for clinical trials. These older, sicker patients turned out be “about twice as likely to receive these novel immunotherapies compared to healthier patients who would have been included, and this is despite the fact that these drugs have never been studied in this particular group of individuals,” said Parikh.
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'It's not you. It's your strategy': How to use science to stamp out your bad habits and make a change
Katy Milkman of the Wharton School spoke about taking a strategic approach to changing behaviors. “If you haven’t built a system that makes it fun to do whatever it is that’s good for you, you won’t persist. And persistence is what makes us successful when it comes to change,” she said.
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Trump self-pardon ‘cannot be ruled out’
Claire Finkelstein of the Law School spoke about challenges to the results of the presidential election and the possibility of President Donald Trump pardoning himself. “That would be an extremely interesting jurisprudential question because we’ve never had such a case,” she said.
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Amy Coney Barrett to be confirmed to US Supreme Court nine days before election
Claire Finkelstein of the Law School weighed in on the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court and how it might shape the upcoming election. “I think there’s just about zero chance [Barrett] would recuse herself” from a case challenging the election results, said Finkelstein.
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Are very long-lived trees immortal and what can they teach humans?
Brenda Casper of the School of Arts & Sciences said it’s hard to measure age-related deterioration in trees that are older than 1,000 years. “It’s not just internal physiology per se but it’s the interaction of the tree with its environment,” she said.
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‘Microclots’ baffle doctors working with COVID-19 patients in the US
Lewis Kaplan of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the appearance of blood clots in COVID-19 patients.
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“There will be a vaccine … but not anytime soon”
Jennifer Pinto-Martin of the School of Nursing said the U.S. should expect at least one additional wave of the coronavirus and that a vaccine won’t be available “anytime soon.”
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Can Neurolaw Change the Criminal Justice System?
Stephen Morse of the Law School comments on considering individual behavior in criminal court cases.