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Cancel culture on the silver screen
Professor in front of a bookshelf filled with books

Meta Mazaj is a senior lecturer in cinema studies at Penn. (Image: Taja Mazaj)

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    • Cancel culture on the silver screen

    Iconic films like the 1939 blockbuster “Gone With the Wind” are being scrutinized in light of the Black Lives Matter movement against racial injustice. Cinema studies’ Meta Mazaj says framing films within context is more valuable than erasure and disclaimers.
    Brazil’s coronavirus crisis
    People wearing face masks chat on the street in Olinda, Brazil

    From Operação contra novo Coronavírus, Olinda, Brazil, May 20, 2020. (Image: Alice Mafra)

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    • Brazil’s coronavirus crisis

    Brazil has become one of the world’s deadliest hotspots for the novel coronavirus, second only to the United States in deaths and infections. Melissa Teixeira, a historian of modern Brazil, shares her thoughts on the nation’s response and challenges it faces in battling the virus.

    Kristen de Groot

    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