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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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John Gans of Perry World House says that every president since JFK has had an early term crisis, an event that punctures their momentum with the American public.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that there’s a difference between temporarily avoiding media coverage and planning a strategy that broadly delegitimizes media outlets.
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Kate Dorsch of the School of Arts & Sciences clarifies how UFOs and UAPs are classified and delves into the scarcity of knowledge gleaned from their potential sightings by the military.
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Marci Hamilton of the School of Arts & Sciences says the Supreme Court has a more theocratic than secular viewpoint.
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PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel said the initiatives that make child-nutrition programs more efficient shouldn’t be allowed to expire. “When you improve the ability for the country to deliver food to children, to families, you improve the health outcomes of Americans,” he said.
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Katy Milkman of the Wharton School offered advice about how to change unhealthy habits formed during the pandemic. "We know when a shock arises and forces a change in our behavior for an extended period of time, there tend to be carryover effects because we're sticky in our behaviors," she said.
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Research led by Andrew Marques, a Ph.D. student in the Perelman School of Medicine, found new evidence of COVID-19 spillover from humans into wild deer. How exactly the virus was transmitted to deer has yet to be determined.
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Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon, a Ph.D. student in the School of Arts & Sciences, was interviewed about the mistreatment of Ukraine’s Black residents as they attempt to flee the country. “This is a multi-country problem we’re looking at,” she said.
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Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing discussed her research on burnout and job dissatisfaction among nurses. Her research found that exceedingly long shifts not only harmed nurses, but also patients. “Any time after 12 hours, the medical errors that nurses were involved in started to escalate dramatically,” she said.
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Robert Seyfarth of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about how and why groups of primates “break up” and warned not to project that information onto human relationships. "You always find somebody who says, yeah, the baboons are showing us that you shouldn't have a despotic breakup and it's bad to just dump somebody and walk off," he said. "But I guess I'm not going to go into that territory."