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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Brian Daniels of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted on how Ukrainian folklore in museums and institutions is the site of anti-Soviet opposition and how museums may be implicated.
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A study from the School of Nursing concluded that nurses can play a major role in helping patients navigate information and misinformation about the pandemic. “We have to craft our messages, and then we, as individuals, need to also have some level of health and science literacy, and I think we can help in garnering that as well,” Dean Antonia Villarruel said.
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James Serpell of the School of Veterinary Medicine was interviewed about the relationships between humans and animals. “At least with dogs, the evidence suggests that when they’re with people, they experience exactly the same kind of neurochemical changes in the brain that we experience when we’re with them,” he said.
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Heather Klusaritz of the Perelman School of Medicine and School of Social Policy & Practice and Richard Wender of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about Penn’s efforts to vaccinate Philadelphians. “To achieve equity is to be as available as we possibly can be,” said Wender.
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Katy Milkman of the Wharton School was interviewed about her research on motivation and establishing good habits. Milkman co-led a study on exercise habits with more than 60,000 participants.
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Jessica Kim, a doctoral student in the School of Social Policy & Practice, is organizing a demonstration in support of a bill to require New Jersey schools to teach students about the history and contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. “Education is critical,” she said.
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Richard Wender of the Perelman School of Medicine said COVID-19 precautions are still needed this holiday season. “When you’re dealing with something like a global pandemic, you just gotta take life day-by-day and not act as if the ending has already arrived, because it hasn’t, and in many parts of the country, COVID rates are quite high right now,” he said.
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Marilyn Howarth of the Perelman School of Medicine weighed in on the potential health impacts of a recent junkyard fire in Philadelphia. “I think there’s no question that anyone in the immediate environment of the fire certainly would have been exposed to high levels of particulates and perhaps higher than ideal levels of other chemicals,” she said. “As the smoke drifted away, it does tend to disperse, and the levels are lower.”
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Meenakshi Bewtra of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on how the need for blood is greater than usual while the supply is lower than usual.
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Regina Cunningham of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania is quoted about art inspired by a branching tree that represents life, hospital work, and the future of advanced medicine.