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Wednesday, July 4, 2018
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-president-accepts-recommendations-working-group-university-connections-slavery
Painful history (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-president-accepts-recommendations-working-group-university-connections-slavery?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=8862a2b261-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-8862a2b261-44504553)
The Penn Slavery working group on the University’s connections to slavery was formed after an undergraduate student research project discovered that the ties to slavery were deeper than had previously been known. President Amy Gutmann accepted the group’s initial recommendations and said, “Penn will continue this effort to learn still more about its past, disseminate our findings, grapple with the implications for our present, and work to secure an ever more inclusive future.”
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According to a bipartisan national survey jointly commissioned by the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, the George W. Bush Institute, and Freedom House, the majority of Americans see democracy as weak and getting weaker. The report, part of a shared initiative called The Democracy Project, assessed Americans’ attitudes about democratic principles and institutions at home and support for U.S. policies that advance democracy abroad.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/teachers-view-minority-immigrant-parents-uninvolved
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Teachers are less likely to view the parents of immigrant and minority students as involved in their children’s education, according to research from doctoral candidate Phoebe Ho of the School of Arts and Sciences. This leads to lower grades and fewer recommendations for academic honors for those students, she says.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/learning-tragedy-how-penn-prepares-and-responds-emergency-situations
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Maureen Rush sat down with Penn Today in the Division of Public Safety’s Chestnut Street headquarters to chat about the University’s emergency-preparedness plan, how the Penn community can respond in an emergency, and the types of training used by the Penn Police Department. Rush has led the operation as VP since 2000, having joined DPS in 1994 after 18 years with the Philly police.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/modlabs-smores-are-expanding-robot-autonomy
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ModLab, directed by Mark Yim of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, is interested in the way robots can adapt to their surroundings and solve problems they weren’t explicitly programmed for. Its latest project focuses on individual modules that connect to one another to complete complex tasks. (Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo4CWKWyfvQ&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=8862a2b261-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-8862a2b261-44504553) )
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/correcting-blind-spot-glaucoma
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Research led by the Perelman School of Medicine’s Joan O’Brien, director of the Scheie Eye Institute, along with Privthi Sankar, Eydie Miller (pictured), Victoria Addis, and Qi Cui, is seeking to transform prevention and treatment of glaucoma using precision medicine. The five-year study also seeks to identify risk factors that contribute to high incidence of one type of the disease among African-Americans.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/examining-roots-racial-discrimination
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In his book “The Spectre of Race,” Michael Hanchard of the School of Arts and Sciences explores xenophobia, racism, marginalization, and exclusionary policies dating back to ancient Greece. He traces how democratic institutions have promoted undemocratic ideas and practices, such as slavery and discrimination.
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#https://humanitariannursing.wordpress.com/2018/06/15/my-first-week-at-the-university-of-york/
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The best advice School of Nursing student Jordan Lindekens of Philadelphia received from her summer advisor was to keep an open mind. Since arriving for an internship at the University of York, she has taken those words to heart, meeting with expert mentors and peers who have enriched her views on critical care and humanitarian work.
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On its own, the influenza A virus is helpless; it requires a host organism in order to manufacture the proteins it needs to enter and reproduce within the host’s cells. New research by Kristen Lynch and doctoral student Matthew Thompson of the Perelman School of Medicine showed that blocking this interaction can bring viral replication to a halt, pointing to new targets for treating flu infections.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/governor-ed-rendell-myth-busts-parkinsons
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Former Pennsylvania governor Edward Rendell recently announced that he’s living with Parkinson’s disease and receiving care from a team at Pennsylvania Hospital. “For most patients, the problems are generally much worse in anticipation than reality,” said Matthew Stern of the Perelman School of Medicine. “It’s not to say that this isn’t a potentially disabling disease, but it’s a very heterogeneous one with variability.” (Video (https://youtu.be/hvIQAj2PdR8?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=8862a2b261-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-8862a2b261-44504553) )
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/brain-dislike-and-dehumanization-are-not-same-thing
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Dehumanizing someone — believing they are less than human — is a separate cognitive process than simply disliking them, finds new research from Emile Bruneau of the Annenberg School for Communication. He is optimistic about how the research might be applied to mediate conflict, helping people to respect one another even when they don’t like each other.
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#https://pennathletics.com/news/2018/6/25/mens-track-and-field-track-and-field-in-the-united-kingdom-blog-post-2-birmingham.aspx
Transatlantic race (https://pennathletics.com/news/2018/6/25/mens-track-and-field-track-and-field-in-the-united-kingdom-blog-post-2-birmingham.aspx?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=8862a2b261-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-8862a2b261-44504553)
In a continuation of blog posts documenting the Men and Women’s Track and Field teams’ time in the U.K., senior Jeff Wiseman of Holland, Pa., writes about the warmth and hospitality of Birmingham and the positive energy of the weekend meet. (Photos (https://pennathletics.com/news/2018/6/25/mens-track-and-field-track-and-field-in-the-united-kingdom-blog-post-2-birmingham.aspx?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=8862a2b261-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-8862a2b261-44504553) )
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