Despite the pandemic obliterating in-person interaction, Penn undergraduates Emma Arsekin and Janelle Schneider were able to gather and assess large amounts of data for political research, some from sizeable cross-sections of Pennsylvania’s population, and get some valuable insights into political persuasion. As research assistants working for political science professor Daniel Hopkins, the two undergraduates spent the summer taking part in the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program (PURM) program.
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