5/18
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Penn Museum preserves a little bit of Egypt for display during renovation
The Penn Museum’s Jennifer Wegner and Julian Siggers spoke about the new, temporary exhibit, “Ancient Egypt: From Discovery to Display.” The display, designed to resemble an archeological lab, “was an opportunity for us to bring the public to see how a gallery unfolds,” said Siggers.
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Hive mind: What’s in these Ed Bacon photos?
Hannah Bennett of the Libraries spoke about an unlabeled trove of photographs donated to Penn by urban planner Ed Bacon before his death in 2005. The photos are now being posted to Flickr to solicit public help identifying the locations depicted. “You don’t have to be a Bacon scholar – or a Bacon enthusiast – to enjoy these pictures,” said Bennett.
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Hospitals could play bigger role in preventing gun violence, study says
A new study co-authored by Kit Delgado of the Perelman School of Medicine proposes that emergency rooms could help prevent gun violence. “The emergency department may be [gunshot victims’] only contact with the health care system, and what we know is that represents an opportunity to try and prevent a repeat injury,” said Delgado.
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What makes addiction a disease?
Charles O’Brien and Daniel Langleben of the Perelman School of Medicine discussed the brain’s reward system and its relationship to addiction.
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Three reasons why Philadelphia won’t follow Minneapolis’s ban on single-family zoning
Vincent Reina of the School of Design said that changing Philadelphia zoning laws to allow for greater density could help the region but isn’t a cure-all. Still, he said, “it can ensure a lot of middle-income housing in neighborhoods that are becoming more costly even for middle-income households. This approach could be very useful in neighborhoods like Point Breeze and neighborhoods that are the future Point Breezes.”
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Trove of copyrighted items set to enter public domain
John Mark Ockerbloom and Brigitte Burris of the Libraries discussed works new to the public domain, ranging from the underappreciated works of Philadelphia composer Frances McCollin to a Prohibition-era book by Victor G. Vecki, which advocated for an end to the ban on alcohol.
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Philly affirms commitment to slashing emissions as study shows global increase
Christine Simeone of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy spoke about cities and states’ continued efforts in the fight against climate change. “In the absence of a national strategy, the state and local strategies actually become much more important,” said Simeone.
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PGW plan for liquified natural gas facility in Southwest Philadelphia clears hurdle
Christina Simeone of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy discussed the possible environmental impact of the creation of a new liquified natural gas (LNG) facility in Southwest Philadelphia. “The environmental benefit will happen if LNG displaces diesel or fuel oil,” she said. “But it’s just not clear until there’s a client base who is going to be the end user of this gas.”
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ER doctors worked without pay for weeks as three Philly area hospitals changed management
The Wharton School’s Lawton Robert Burns spoke about the challenge of staffing emergency departments. A shortage of ER doctors makes hiring and salary negotiations time-consuming, which in turn makes third-party staffing agencies an attractive option, he said.
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Philly’s Amazon HQ2 loss could be a long-term win for city, experts say
The Wharton School’s Robert Inman said of cities’ efforts to court Amazon’s new HQ, “In most instances, it’s a zero-sum game. You’ll end up lowering benefits or raising taxes elsewhere in the city to subsidize the relocator with probably little impact on jobs.”