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Wednesday, November 14, 2018
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/new-perelman-center-looks-future-while-preserving-past
Common good (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/new-perelman-center-looks-future-while-preserving-past?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=0da83d4324-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-0da83d4324-44504553)
Speaking at a ribbon-cutting ceremony naming the new Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, Penn President Amy Gutmann (above) said, “One of the most important roles of a great university is to encourage open dialogue, the free exchange of ideas, and civil and robust expression of divergent views, on our campus and all around the world.” Acknowledging alumnus Ronald O. Perelman (second from left) she added, “This building will do just that.”
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-law-hosts-panel-opportunity-zones-moderated-john-legend
Impacting lives (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-law-hosts-panel-opportunity-zones-moderated-john-legend?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=0da83d4324-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-0da83d4324-44504553)
Activist and artist John Legend (right) moderated the “Opportunity Zones and Inclusive Community Development” panel in a packed room at the Law School. Legend, a 1999 alumnus, is an advisory board member for Penn Law’s Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/revisiting-rate-medical-exemptions-following-california-vaccine-bill
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The School of Nursing has published a study in Pediatrics on health officers’ experiences in the wake of a California bill to eliminate nonmedical exemptions from school-entry vaccine mandates. “The study revealed concerns about reports of physicians who advertised medical exemptions online for a fee and the impact this could have on the long-term success of Senate Bill 277,” says lead author and postdoc Salini Mohanty.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/writing-purpose
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Students in the creative writing course “Essay, Blog, Tweet, Nonfiction now!,” taught by Lorene Cary of the School of Arts and Sciences, have been working with other Philadelphia schools and community groups through a new initiative, Vote That Jawn, to encourage young people to register and vote in last week’s midterm elections. The students’ writing is published in a nonprofit created by Cary, SafeKidsStories.com.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-honors-six-alumni-including-creative-spirit-awardee-author-and-lawyer-lisa-scottoline
Meritorious alumni (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-honors-six-alumni-including-creative-spirit-awardee-author-and-lawyer-lisa-scottoline?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=0da83d4324-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-0da83d4324-44504553)
At the Alumni Award of Merit Gala during Homecoming weekend, award-winning, best-selling crime novelist and alumna Lisa Scottoline (above) received the 2018 Creative Spirit Award for her life-long commitment to and excellence in the arts. She is a member of the undergraduate Class of 1976 and a 1981 graduate of the Law School. Five other alumni were also honored, and Dean John L. Jackson Jr. of the School of Social Policy & Practice received the Faculty Award of Merit.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/marc-lo-named-executive-director-new-office-penn-first-plus-students
‘Highly experienced’ (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/marc-lo-named-executive-director-new-office-penn-first-plus-students?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=0da83d4324-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-0da83d4324-44504553)
Marc Lo has been named the inaugural executive director of the new Office of Penn First Plus Students. Provost Wendell Pritchett says Lo is “a scholar and a professional leader whose research focuses on how students negotiate their multiple, intersecting identities and how those personal backgrounds and identities, from socioeconomic status to sexual identity and religious affiliations, affect their lives on campus and the choices that they make.” He starts work in January.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/breaking-cycle-despair-people-dementia
Breaking the cycle (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/breaking-cycle-despair-people-dementia?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=0da83d4324-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-0da83d4324-44504553)
A singular focus on finding a cure for dementia has led to what the School of Nursing’s Nancy Hodgson calls a “cycle of despair” for people living with the disease. They’re told nothing can be done and receive little guidance, which can lead to hopelessness and a poor quality of life. To make real strides, Hodgson writes in her new book, a paradigm shift is required.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/qa-rogers-smith
Birthright citizenship (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/qa-rogers-smith?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=0da83d4324-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-0da83d4324-44504553)
Resting on an 1868 clause of the 14th Amendment, “birthright citizenship” is not as simple as it sounds. In a Q&A, Rogers Smith of the School of Arts and Sciences discusses the intricacies surrounding it, who it excludes, and whether a U.S. president can change it.
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#https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/asylum-caravan-international-law.html
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Stephanie Schwartz, a postdoctoral research fellow at Perry World House, breaks down the history of asylum as a “humanitarian imperative” and the consequences of deporting migrants. Writing for Slate, Schwartz argues that attacks on U.S. asylum policies send the message to other countries that it’s acceptable to turn refugees away.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/sniffing-science
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In the “Citizen Science” course at the School of Veterinary Medicine’s Working Dog Center, Meghan Ramos (left, in blue) and Tessa Seales (not pictured) work with dog owners to enhance their pups’ scent-detection skills, with an eye toward bolstering the Center’s research.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/widening-lens-language-study
Linguistic evolution (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/widening-lens-language-study?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=0da83d4324-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-0da83d4324-44504553)
As reported in Omnia, faculty from the School of Arts and Sciences are exploring the complex ways in which people shape and are shaped by language. “How we learn, process, and use language and how we change language over time—these are really fundamental aspects of being human,” says psychologist John Trueswell.
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Author and journalist Jennifer Egan, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, will teach an English literature course in the spring semester as an Artist-in-Residence in the School of Arts and Sciences. A Penn alumna, Egan will also lead the English Department’s Winter Reading Project on her latest novel, “Manhattan Beach.”
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/should-tax-dollars-support-private-schools
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Rand Quinn of the Graduate School of Education has co-authored an article exploring the state of education vouchers under the Trump administration. The research shows that “about half of adults support publicly funded school vouchers while almost a third are opposed and that public opinion on school vouchers varied across the political spectrum.”
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Alex, I’ll take... (https://spe-garbo-post.cimediacloud.com/mediaboxes/13721b1b19fb41dea8d19373facf77ff?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=0da83d4324-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-0da83d4324-44504553)
Penn has been around for more than 250 years and has made major contributions to the world, but sometimes it’s the smallest things that make a warm impression. Last week on “Jeopardy,” one of the categories was “We walked to school,” and the contestant got it right: “What is the University of Pennsylvania?” (Video (https://spe-garbo-post.cimediacloud.com/mediaboxes/13721b1b19fb41dea8d19373facf77ff?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=0da83d4324-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-0da83d4324-44504553) )
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/what-makes-companies-good-employers-women
Women at work (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/what-makes-companies-good-employers-women?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=0da83d4324-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-0da83d4324-44504553)
A new report from the Wharton Social Impact Initiative, authored by Katherine Klein, Shoshana Schwartz, and Sandi Hunt (none pictured), offers a methodology for evaluating companies’ impact on women employees. The resulting framework, Four for Women, highlights equitable gender representation, fair pay, health and wellness support, and employee satisfaction as the top traits in a woman-friendly workplace.
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#https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/live/news/1240-patient-safety-in-hospitals-still-a-concern
Better care (https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/live/news/1240-patient-safety-in-hospitals-still-a-concern?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=0da83d4324-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-0da83d4324-44504553)
Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing and the School of Arts and Sciences has authored a study describing slow progress and uneven application in efforts to reduce medical errors. “Improving work environments through organization and culture change is a comparatively low-cost intervention to improve quality of care and patient safety,” says Aiken.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/meet-original-typical-penn-student
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Stephen Fried (above), a lecturer in Creative Writing at Penn, spent years researching his new biography of Benjamin Rush, a founding father, leader in medicine, and former Penn student and professor. As part of Homecoming Weekend, Fried was at Kelly Writers House alongside Penn alumni who helped research the book.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/inventive-legal-approach-decreases-gang-violence-18-percent
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To curb gang violence in the 1990s, Los Angeles took an inventive approach, filing civil injunctions against gang “organizations.” According to analysis from Greg Ridgeway, John MacDonald, and doctoral candidate Ruth Moyer of the School of Arts and Sciences, the move decreased crime by 5 percent in the short term and 18 percent after 20-plus years.
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