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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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2015’s Best and Worst Metro Areas for STEM Professionals
Patricia Rose of Career Services talks about STEM graduates and professions.
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Flip the List
Dean Eric Furda of Admissions provides advice to high school students about the college application process.
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Cracking Down on Skipping Class
Skipping class undetected for a game of ultimate Frisbee might become a thing of the past as more universities adopt mandatory-attendance policies and acquire high-tech trackers that snitch when students skip. At Villanova University, student ID cards track attendance at some lectures.
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Are Young Scientists Getting Enough Help From the NIH?
For four straight years recently, despite annual budget cutbacks, the National Institutes of Health managed to record steady gains in a critical measure: the share of its main grant awards won by new scientists.
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For Those Trying to Sort Through the Maze of College Options, a Web Site Offers Answers - and Some College Officials Shudder
These weren’t exactly the results Pam Horne, the dean of admissions at Purdue University, was expecting: A company billing itself as “the leading provider of research and analysis in higher education” had ranked the best engineering schools in Indiana, and Purdue didn’t even make the top 10 in the state. But an unaccredited, for-profit school was right up there at No. 3, she said.
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One Reason to Offer Free Online Courses: Alumni Engagement
Conversations about the atomic bomb can go only so far among a classroom of 20-somethings. It’s hard for today’s students to imagine living in 1945, experiencing a world war, or, for most, serving in the military. But bring alumni—with many more years of experience to share—into the equation, and class discussions can get a lot more interesting.
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Golden Globe Comedy: It’s Funny Until it Happens to You
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education writes about race and comedy during the Golden Globes Awards.
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With Garrett’s Ascension to Cornell Presidency, Women Will Lead Half of the Ivy League
One by one, the glass ceilings of academia are vanishing. Elizabeth Garrett, president-elect of Cornell University, will become the first woman to lead that school when she takes office in July. But in the Ivy League, such firsts have become almost commonplace. What may be more significant: Garrett’s ascension will mean women are at the helm of half of the eight Ivy League schools. She joins Christina H.
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Declining the AAU Survey
More than a dozen of the nation's top research universities have declined an offer by the Association of American Universities to anonymously survey their students about the prevalence of sexual assault on campus. Fifteen of the AAU’s 60 U.S.
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Federal Ban on Same-sex Marriages Still Casts Shadow on Many Lives
Tobias Barrington Wolff of the Law School comments on federal bans on same-sex marriage.