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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences writes about male-only embryo production.
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Hermann Pfefferkorn of the School of Arts & Sciences is featured for his geology research.
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Student Allison Fried of the Graduate School of Education pens an op-ed about disciplinary options for students.
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Katherine Milkman of the Wharton School is featured for her research on a self-control strategy, “temptation bundling.”
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Angela Bradbury of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about research that shows that young women from families with breast cancer history do not have higher rates of psychological problems.
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The Rolling Stone magazine writer whose article about allegations of a horrific gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity was retracted testified Friday in federal court that she believed the subject of her article was credible at the time, and she rebutted assertions that she did not reach out to key figures in the young woman’s story. For more than two hours Friday, the jury of eight women and two men listened to an interview journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely conducted in a Charlottesville restaurant in September 2014 with “Jackie,” the U-Va.
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Scrap the lecture halls, final exams, degree plans, and traditional semesters. In a growing segment of higher education, students can enroll in a personalized online degree program that allows them to move through lessons as quickly as they can demonstrate mastery of the material.
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An appetite for long hours, a stomach for low pay. Those are unofficial requirements to enter the college-admissions field, where 12-hour days are common and starting salaries meager. But a new federal rule is changing the landscape. A recent update of the Fair Labor Standards Act makes more full-time salaried workers eligible for overtime pay. Starting in December, campus employees who earn less than $47,476 a year and work more than 40 hours a week must be compensated for overtime.
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Dominic Sisti of the Perelman School of Medicine is highlighted for organizing an event to address the ethics of mental health delivery in prisons.
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David Hsu of the Wharton School says, “It takes a very lean staff to maintain the core Twitter as an advertising and messaging platform."