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Cholera vs. flu: Philadelphia’s historical epidemic successes and failures
Map from 1830s depicting the eastern United States, showing cholera cases with red highlights

The map depicts the spread of cholera in Pennsylvania and other eastern states in 1832. (Image: Courtesy of the New York Academy of Medicine)

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    • Cholera vs. flu: Philadelphia’s historical epidemic successes and failures

    Philadelphia’s response to the 1918 influenza might be the poster child of how not to handle an epidemic. Timothy Kent Holliday makes the case that the city was well equipped for outbreaks decades and even centuries earlier.

    Kristen de Groot

    New configurations in campus housing and dining planned
    Person wearing a mask walking past Class of 1920 Commons

    Penn’s housing and dining experiences will be different in the upcoming academic year to accommodate social distancing. The Class of 1920 Commons is a dining hall on Locust Walk near several College House dorms. (Image: Eric Sucar)

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    • New configurations in campus housing and dining planned

    Student housing and dining experiences will be  markedly different in the upcoming academic year  because of pandemic restrictions designed to keep students  socially  distant while also fostering a sense of college community.
    Navigating cytokine storms
    Illustration of a T cell releasing signaling molecules, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-10, and IL-13

    An immune response can be helpful, harmful, or somewhere in between, in COVID-19 and many other medical conditions. 

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    • Navigating cytokine storms

    Pairing their expertise, Nilam Mangalmurti of the Perelman School of Medicine and Christopher Hunter of the School of Veterinary Medicine have been working to understand the protective and harmful aspects of the immune response, including in COVID-19.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Wharton School announces new AI for Business initiative
    computer illustration of artifical intelligence
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    • Wharton School announces new AI for Business initiative

    Wharton School announces new AI for Business initiative. Led by AI expert and Wharton professor Kartik Hosanagar, AI for Business will enable students, faculty, and industry partners to explore the next phase of digital transformation.

    Dee Patel

    What the 1968 Kerner Commission can teach us
    Historic image of police storming a storefront in 1967 during a riot in Detroit.

    President Lyndon Johnson established the Kerner Commission to identify the genesis of the violence in the 1960s that killed 43 in Detroit and 26 in Newark. Pictured here, soldiers in a Newark storefront. (Image: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture)

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    • What the 1968 Kerner Commission can teach us

    Criminologist and statistician Richard Berk, who worked on the report as a graduate student, explains the systemic racism and poverty found to underlie violent unrest in the 1960s and where COVID-19 and the economy fit today.

    Michele W. Berger

    The case against separating breastfeeding mothers and infants during the pandemic
    Person in a black dress standing on stairs for a portrait.

    Diane Spatz is a professor of perinatal nursing and the Helen M. Shearer Professor of Nutrition at the School of Nursing, and a nurse scientist for the lactation program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. (Image: Eric Sucar)

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    • The case against separating breastfeeding mothers and infants during the pandemic

    In a Q&A, Diane Spatz of Penn Nursing and CHOP discusses why it’s safe and beneficial to keep them together, even when the mother tests positive for COVID-19.

    Michele W. Berger

    Can widespread protests bring lasting change?
    A crowd of people wearing masks march in the streets, one protester holds a sign reading "Justice for George Floyd."

    Demonstrators march to protest George Floyd’s killing by a police officer.

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    • Can widespread protests bring lasting change?

    Amidst the current protests decrying the killings of Black people by police and demand for reforms, Penn Today speaks to political scientist Daniel Gillion about his new book, “The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy.”

    Kristen de Groot

    Can, or should, the Insurrection Act be invoked?
    Armed soldiers stand in the grass in front of a low wall behind which a large protest is taking place.

    Military police soldiers attached to the Texas Army National Guard’s 136th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade support local law enforcement during a protest in Austin, Texas, on May 31, 2020.

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    • Can, or should, the Insurrection Act be invoked?

    Claire Finkelstein of the Law School spoke to Penn Today to discuss the history and meaning of a rarely used law, propelled into the news this week.

    Kristen de Groot