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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Mori Taheripour of the Wharton School offered tips for negotiating a higher salary and said confidence and good preparation can go a long way. “Give yourself the space to do the very best that you can in that moment,” she said.
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Diana Mutz of the School of Arts & Sciences and Annenberg School for Communication said many Trump supporters are animated by the desire to return to a simpler time. “They’re experiencing change and that this is threatening,” she said. “The advantages that these groups enjoyed aren't there to the same extent.”
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Genevieve Kanter of the Perelman School of Medicine described three potential scenarios for updates to the COVID-19 vaccine. The FDA could require a new emergency use authorization (EUA), it could allow amendments to the existing EUA, or the original vaccines could have enough data to achieve full FDA approval by the time an update is needed, she said.
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Nicole Holliday of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about the origins and evolution of the phrase “cancel culture.” “It is used to refer to a cultural boycott,” she said. “We’ve had the term ‘boycott’ forever and ever. It just means, ‘I’m not going to put my attention or money or support behind this person or organization because they’ve done something that I don’t agree with.’ That is not new; that’s very old.”
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David Rubin of the Perelman School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia said that while there’s been a decline in COVID-19 transmission rates in most parts of the country, it will take many weeks or months for the number of people getting sick and dying to fall. "It's going to take a while. There's going to be a long tail, unfortunately," he said.
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Mauro Guillén of the Wharton School spoke about his book “2030,” which aims to predict what the world will look like a decade from now. “All of these trends will, in the end, result in a very different balance in terms of economic, political, geopolitical power in the world,” he said.
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Karen Reivich and James Pawelski of the School of Arts & Sciences offered tips for staying happy and resilient over the holidays, in spite of the pandemic.
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Oscar Serpell of the Kleinman Center on Energy Policy in Stuart Weitzman School of Design spoke about President-elect Joseph Biden’s plan to transition the country to renewable energy. “The business case has never been stronger, and I think it will continue to get stronger every single year,” Serpell said.
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Jack Nagel of the School of Arts & Sciences commented on a St. Louis proposition that would establish approval voting in local primaries. “It may be that some people only approve of one candidate,” he said. “But if there are genuinely two or more candidates that you think would do a good job, but you only vote for one of them, if everybody does that the system collapses to the conventional voting and you may get narrowly supported winners again.”
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PIK Professor Duncan Watts is working with Facebook to analyze its content for bias. "Mostly it's mainstream content," he said. "If anything, there is a bias in favor of conservative content."