5/18
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Video: Robots Playing Soccer at This Year’s RoboCup Is Like Watching Toddlers Learn to Kick
Doctoral candidate Steve McGill of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is highlighted about RoboCup 2015.
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50 Groundbreaking Scientists Who Are Changing the Way We See the World
Scott Barry Kaufman of the School of Arts & Sciences is highlighted for his work on how human intelligence is measured.
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As Blacklegged Ticks Migrate, Lyme Disease Follows
Camilo Khatchikian of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on researching the migration of ticks and the disease that has followed this journey.
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Video: Interview with Megan Ryerson
Megan Ryerson of the School of Design and the School of Engineering and Applied Science talks about the new era of airline competition.
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U.S. Congress Moves to Block Human-embryo Editing
Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences says, “You don’t have to be a faith-based bioethicist to recognize that there’s some global responsibility for modifying the human germline.”
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So Apparently There Are 4 Kinds of Introversion
Scott Barry Kaufman of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about different types of introversion.
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Mississippi Valley Archaeological Site Reveals Transition From Hunter-gatherer to Farming Cultures of Ancient Native Americans
Meg Kassabaum of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Museum is featured as the project director for the Smith Creek Archeological Project.
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The Forgotten History of How Bird Poop Cripples Power Lines
Etienne Benson of the School of Arts & Sciences discusses the threat birds posed to the power grid in California in the 1920s.
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‘New’ Dinosaur Species Named by State Museum of Pennsylvania Palentologist: Jurassic World in Pa.
Doctoral candidate Steven Jasinski of the School of Arts & Sciences is featured for naming a newly discovered dinosaur.
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Video: A Little Push
Penn research about creating liquid-crystal-based compound lenses from the School of Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Science is featured.