In this installment of Study Hall: We talk about masks as politicization of wearing a mask, holding rallies at a time people need to be avoiding crowds, Marion Leary (University of Pennsylvania) lectures on innovations in nursing, and Michael Yudell talks to us about Sir William Arbuthnot Lane and the colon (not the punctuation mark).

ABOUT MARION LEARY: Marion Leary is the Director of Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing. As the Director of Innovation at Penn Nursing she works to amplify and educate nurses as leaders in health and healthcare innovation. This past August 2019 she was named as an Influencer of Healthcare winner in the category of Excellence in Innovation by the Philadelphia Inquirer. In 2017, she was named Geek of the Year for her outstanding achievements in Philadelphia’s vibrant geek community in the areas of innovation, technology, and activism.

ABOUT MICHAEL YUDELL: Michael Yudell, the steady lecturer of Study Hall, is the Chair of the Department of Community Health and Prevention at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. Yudell is a researcher in the fields of ethics, genomics and the history of public health. His work focuses on the history, risk communication and ethics of autism spectrum disorders, as well as the history of the race concept in biology.

CAST: Rob Alesiani, Sarah Clemency, Keane Cobb, Marcely Jean-Pierre, James Knight, Lora Magaldi, Brendan Manklang Kingston, Sheila Master, and Mike Marbach,