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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Ariana Chao of the School of Nursing said exercising and finding a diet that’s sustainable long term is the best plan for losing weight.
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Claire Finkelstein of the Law School commented on challenges to the results of the presidential election and the Electoral College deadline. “I’m concerned if this kind of litigation terrorism becomes a standard aftermath after every election,” she said.
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Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. "We’ve all seen fantastic results in animal models, and now we’re seeing that it works in humans, and I think that’s just incredible," he said.
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Cindy Connolly of the School of Nursing spoke about Philadelphia’s open-air schools, which were built to slow the spread of tuberculosis in the early 20th century. The schools even operated in winter. "They would wear what they called little Eskimo suits that looked to me like sleeping bags with hoods," she said.
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Stephen Pettigrew of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about staffing for November’s election. “In normal times it’s challenging to recruit poll workers; in a pandemic, it’s even worse,” he said.
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Kathy Peiss of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about women who opposed the suffrage movement. “The anti-suffragists were opposed to the idea of women having the right to vote largely because they saw it as a violation of women’s true gender nature—that they were mothers and wives—and that it might distract them from not only the duties of the home, but also their sense of women’s privileges to be in the home,” she said.
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Allison Hoffman of the Law School said companies can require employees to be tested for COVID-190 if it’s job-related. “It’s consistent with business necessity to get that kind of test. Doing temperature checks on people, all of those things would be well within the bounds of the law,” she said.
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Meredith Schamun, the newly hired head women’s volleyball coach, was interviewed about coaching during the pandemic.
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Melissa Hunt of the School Arts & Sciences joined a conversation about “doomscrolling,” endlessly scrolling through bad news on social media, and the habit’s effect on mental health.
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Sarah Paoletti of the Law School spoke about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s decision to release a draft report on Americans’ rights to property and religious liberty from a group of conservative academics and theologians at Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center last week. “There is an entire cadre of staff and department within the Department of State that covers democracy, human rights, and labor, and those are not the folks who were tapped to look at this,” she said.