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Wednesday, September 12, 2018
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#https://face2faceafrica.com/article/from-village-icon-to-global-acclaim-this-promising-young-ghanaian-leader-keeps-soaring-while-saving-lives
Young icon (https://face2faceafrica.com/article/from-village-icon-to-global-acclaim-this-promising-young-ghanaian-leader-keeps-soaring-while-saving-lives?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=30061cf280-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-30061cf280-44504553)
The first person from his Ghanaian village to attend college, Shadrack Frimpong graduated from Penn in 2015 as a recipient of Amy Gutmann’s President’s Engagement Prize. He is now back to pursue a master’s in non-profit leadership so that he can better guide Cocoa360, the organization he founded to facilitate access to education and health care through cocoa plantations. He was featured on Face2FaceAfrica.com.
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#https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/news/8341-pathways-to-the-profession-emily-lubin-l19
Summer of improvement (https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/news/8341-pathways-to-the-profession-emily-lubin-l19?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=30061cf280-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-30061cf280-44504553)
As a legal intern with the Alaska Public Defender Agency, law student Emily Lubin met with clients, reviewed discovery, and wrote motions to suppress evidence. Securing positive outcomes for her clients was rewarding, and she is excited to work with more in her future career in public defense.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/biking-shore-fallen-first-responders
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Donning red and blue jerseys as Team “Are We There Yet?,” 25 personnel from the Division of Public Safety and Penn Medicine pedaled 65 miles to Atlantic City for the 31st annual Tour de Shore, which raised money for the families of fallen first responders. (Video (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/biking-shore-fallen-first-responders?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=30061cf280-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-30061cf280-44504553) )
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#https://medium.com/penn-engineering/penn-and-lehigh-research-team-seeks-alternative-ammonia-production-methods-for-sustainable-8d2c6839e512
Sustainable fertilizer (https://medium.com/penn-engineering/penn-and-lehigh-research-team-seeks-alternative-ammonia-production-methods-for-sustainable-8d2c6839e512?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=30061cf280-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-30061cf280-44504553)
Ammonia makes food production possible on its current scale but takes a lot of energy to produce. John Vohs, Raymond Gorte, and Aleksandra Vojvodic of the School of Engineering and Applied Science are developing electrochemical pathways to synthesize ammonia more efficiently.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/educational-program-successful-reducing-forced-sex-south-african-adolescents
Intervention effort (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/educational-program-successful-reducing-forced-sex-south-african-adolescents?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=30061cf280-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-30061cf280-44504553)
Southern Africa has some of the highest rates of sexual assault in the world, leading to increased rates of HIV. A new study by researchers from the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Nursing, led by John B. Jemmott III, found that a 12-hour educational program presented to sixth graders significantly reduced the rate of sexual assault.
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#https://pennathletics.com/news/2018/9/4/football-three-quakers-open-2018-on-nfl-rosters.aspx
Trio on the gridiron (https://pennathletics.com/news/2018/9/4/football-three-quakers-open-2018-on-nfl-rosters.aspx?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=30061cf280-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-30061cf280-44504553)
As the National Football League moves into its 2018 season, three Penn football alums are on board: Brandon Copeland ’12, playing with the New York Jets; Greg Van Roten ’11, with the Carolina Panthers; and Justin Watson ’18 (above, right), with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It is the largest number of Penn footballers on the NFL roster since the Ivy League was formed in 1959.
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#https://blog.research.chop.edu/new-fviii-center-crosses-disciplines-to-reach-answers-for-hemophilia-a
Binding interactions (https://blog.research.chop.edu/new-fviii-center-crosses-disciplines-to-reach-answers-for-hemophilia-a?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=30061cf280-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-30061cf280-44504553)
Hemophiliacs require protein infusions for blood clotting, but 20-30 percent form inhibitory antibodies that prevent the protein therapy from working. Valder Arruda of the Perelman School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia assembled a team of investigators to test the problem from diverse perspectives.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/how-us-rental-market-increasing-inequality
Increasing inequality (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/how-us-rental-market-increasing-inequality?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=30061cf280-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-30061cf280-44504553)
Monthly rents are dropping but not across the board. The most expensive places are declining in price while the cheaper places are rising, adversely affecting those on the lower end of the income scale. On Knowledge@Wharton, Benjamin Keys examines how this development bodes for the future housing market. (Audio (http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/u-s-rental-market-increasing-inequality/?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=30061cf280-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-30061cf280-44504553) )
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/climate-change-political-polarization-disappears-social-networks
Reducing polarization (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/climate-change-political-polarization-disappears-social-networks?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=30061cf280-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-30061cf280-44504553)
Political bias often leads to polarization on topics like climate change. But a study from Damon Centola of the Annenberg School for Communication has shown that exposure to anonymous, bipartisan social networks can make a striking difference, leading both liberals and conservatives to improve their forecasting of climate-change trends.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/oasis-compassion
Easing stress (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/oasis-compassion?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=30061cf280-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-30061cf280-44504553)
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania operates one of the country’s few centers designed to ease stress and to show compassion for caregivers with loved ones in the hospital. “In some ways, it’s really a significant statement of who we are,” says Mary Walton, director of the Family Caregiver Center. Walton led the effort to set up the Center in 2015. (Video (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/oasis-compassion?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=30061cf280-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-30061cf280-44504553) )
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/qa-marci-hamilton
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Marci Hamilton of the School of Arts and Sciences, who has studied the Catholic clergy abuse crisis for two decades, talked with Penn Today about the grand jury report in Pennsylvania, the importance of changing the statute of limitations, why clergy members should be mandated reporters, and more. “In roughly half of the states,” she says, “there is no requirement that clergy report suspected abuse, even though they often know more about the family situation and potential abuse than even perhaps teachers or doctors.”
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#https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/new-study-finds-visuals-vaping-e-cigarette-advertisements-increase-anti-vaping
Opposite effect (https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/new-study-finds-visuals-vaping-e-cigarette-advertisements-increase-anti-vaping?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=30061cf280-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-30061cf280-44504553)
Vaping may be a tobacco-free method to smoke nicotine, but a new study by researchers from the Annenberg School for Communication found that pro-vaping advertisements, especially when set in social situations, actually increase negative thoughts, feelings, and opinions toward electronic cigarettes.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/floating-art-installation-brings-schuylkill-river-history-life
River art (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/floating-art-installation-brings-schuylkill-river-history-life?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=30061cf280-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-30061cf280-44504553)
Jacob Rivkin, an artist-in-residence for the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities and an instructor in the School of Design, will present a public art installation, “Floating Archives,” starting this weekend. His hand-drawn animations of historic river images will be projected on a screen suspended between two canoes and paddled up the Schuylkill River. (Video (https://vimeo.com/286283649?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=30061cf280-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-30061cf280-44504553) )
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#https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/08/russia-is-co-opting-angry-young-men/568741/
‘Angry young men’ (https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/08/russia-is-co-opting-angry-young-men/568741/?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=30061cf280-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-30061cf280-44504553)
Writing in The Atlantic, Michael Carpenter of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement says, “Russia’s manipulation of fringe far-right groups is part of a deliberate strategy to undermine Western democratic institutions. Russia’s trolls and intelligence services prey on social outcasts in order to radicalize them and recruit them to wage war on their countries’ liberal institutions.”
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