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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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A study led by Samuel Preston of the School of Arts and Sciences found 60,000 more drug-related deaths in 2016 than previously recorded.
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Billy Fleming of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design said the U.S. needs to take action when it comes to preparing for climate change. “Every day we do not spend organizing communities around this question of ‘how do we leave and where do we go?’ is just making all of these other decisions harder and more expensive down the road.”
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Daniel Gillion of the School of Arts and Sciences said protests inspired by Momentum’s activist methodology “are becoming very mainstream; these are not fringe events.” However, he said, if there are too many protests, the public may begin to tune out.
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Américo Mendoza-Mori of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about the need to bring the Quechua language into contemporary art forms. “The stereotype where indigenous people are seen as timeless or pure must be challenged. When native people are put in that box, we are fossilizing them,” he said.
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The Wharton School’s Lindsey Cameron comments on her work studying the impact of mediation on the workplace.
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Maria Oquendo of the Perelman School of Medicine was cited in an excerpt from “Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me,” a new book about mental health care access. The fact that just 43% of American psychiatrists accept Medicaid is “a really huge problem,” said Oquendo.
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Neil Makhija of the Law School commented on the Iowa attorney general’s close relationship to JUUL. “I can't think of a historical precedent for a sitting attorney general advising a private corporation, let alone one under state and federal investigation,” he said.
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The School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Chenfanfu Jiang; postdoc Ming Gao; Ph.D. students Joshuah Wolper, Yu Fang, and Minchen Li; and undergrad Jiecong Lu have developed two new approaches to animating dynamic fractures, like bread tearing or cars crashing.
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John Dani of the Perelman School of Medicine explains the urge to smoke.
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David Abrams of the Law School is quoted on the role of race in legal cases.