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Language in tweets offers insight into community-level well-being
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Lyle Ungar, a professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and one of the principal investigators of the World Well-Being Project, which has spent more than half a decade working on ways to grasp the emotional satisfaction and happiness of specific places.

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    • Language in tweets offers insight into community-level well-being

    In a Q&A, researcher Lyle Ungar discusses why counties that frequently use words like ‘love’ aren’t necessarily happier, plus how techniques from this work led to a real-time COVID-19 wellness map.

    Michele W. Berger

    Pandemics and presidential elections
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    • Pandemics and presidential elections

    The coronavirus outbreak has already caused disruptions in the 2020 election cycle. What if the nation is in the midst of another shutdown come Election Day in November?

    Kristen de Groot

    Iran, sanctions, and coronavirus
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    • Iran, sanctions, and coronavirus

    The United States has faced pressure to ease sanctions to help Iran manage its coronavirus outbreak. Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani, a doctoral candidate in the History Department, discusses how the sanctions have played into Iran’s energy development and complicated its management of the viral outbreak.

    Kristen de Groot

    Domestic violence and gun sales in the time of COVID-19
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    • Domestic violence and gun sales in the time of COVID-19

    In a Q&A, School of Social Policy & Practice researcher Susan B. Sorenson describes new challenges surrounding intimate partner violence and the uptick in gun purchases since this crisis began.

    Michele W. Berger

    At the dental school, the dietitian is in
    A dietitian shows a nutrition label to a person in a dental clinic

    Matthew Whipple, a registered dietitian, consults with patients in clinics at Penn's School of Dental Medicine. (Image: Penn Dental Medicine)

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    • At the dental school, the dietitian is in

    Matthew Whipple, a registered dietitian at the School of Dental Medicine, consults with patients in clinics and educates students about the importance of spreading nutrition advice. He also cooks up a mean chicken and sausage gumbo.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    A Q&A with Ben Jealous, former NAACP head turned tech investor
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    Ben Jealous, former head of the NAACP, is a visiting scholar in the Annenberg School for Communication, the School of Social Policy & Practice, and Wharton. He is teaching a class on social innovation, part of SP2’s Nonprofit Leadership program.

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    • A Q&A with Ben Jealous, former NAACP head turned tech investor

    The visiting scholar discusses the social innovation class he is teaching, plus why it’s key to focus on local civil rights victories and the need to take a long view of history.

    Michele W. Berger

    The history behind International Women’s Day
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    A march through Petrograd on March 8, 1917, the inaugural year for International Women’s Day.

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    • The history behind International Women’s Day

    Kristen R. Ghodsee, professor of Russian and East European studies, talks to Penn Today about the global holiday’s history, and why America has been late to embrace it.

    Kristen de Groot