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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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State of Union: Rethinking the Big Speech That Isn’t So Big Anymore; Less Drama, More Noise
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is quoted about the diminishing impact of the State of the Union address.
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Crossed Wires
Ruben Gur of the Perelman School of Medicine says “Detailed connectome maps of the brain will not only help us understand the differences between how men and women think, but it will also give us more
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Lowering the Bar
As the number of students going to law school drops dramatically, law schools are increasingly competing for students with lower undergraduate grades and LSAT scores. Thomas M.
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Can Your Cat Literally Make You Crazy?
Gary Smith of the School of Veterinary Medicine is cited for studying toxoplasma gondii and schizophrenia.
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Questioning Debit Card Deals
Federal consumer protection officials want colleges to more thoroughly vet the agreements they make with financial institutions to provide banking products on campus.
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Audio: Adolph Reed on Azealia Banks, Reparations and Pop Culture Idiocracy
Adolph Reed of the School of Arts & Sciences is interviewed.
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Duke University Reverses Decision, Cancels Weekly Muslim Call to Prayer
Duke University canceled plans Thursday to begin a weekly Muslim call to prayer from the campus chapel this week, an initiative that had set off debate on social media. A school spokesman and a Duke Muslim leader said that a serious and credible security threat played a role in the decision.
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The Risk of Knowing: Alzheimer’s Research Volunteers
Jason Karlawish and Steven Arnold of the Perelman School of Medicine discuss researching the risks of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
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Disciplines That Expect ‘Brillance’ Tend to Punish Women, Study Finds
Here’s a downside to our cultural obsession with genius: It might be a reason for the gender gap in certain academic fields. New research has found that women tend to be underrepresented in disciplines whose practitioners think innate talent or "brilliance" is required to succeed.
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Women Deterred From Many Fields by Stereotypes of ‘Brilliance’
Jerry Jacobs of the School of Arts & Sciences says, “Women tend to think they have to be the next Einstein before they become a physicist.”