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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Sickness and Secrecy: Clinton’s Health and U.S. History
Rogers Smith of the School of Arts & Sciences talks about the history of presidential candidates on the campaign trail.
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50 Years Ago, Sugar industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Point Blame at Fat
In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat, according to a newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine. The article draws on internal documents to show that an industry group called the Sugar Research Foundation wanted to "refute" concerns about sugar's possible role in heart disease. The SRF then sponsored research by Harvard scientists that did just that. The result was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1967, with no disclosure of the sugar industry funding.
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‘Public’ Information
The Middle East Studies Association on Monday jumped into the debate over professors’ right to privacy vis-à-vis freedom of information laws, asking the State University of New York at Plattsburgh to affirm the academic freedom of professor it says has been targeted for backing the academic boycott of Israel.
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An Open Letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates: Bring on Instant Replay!
FactCheck.org of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is mentioned.
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What Students Really Think
There’s no shortage of books on how to become better college instructor, but surprisingly few take student perspectives into account. Not so for a new book from Michigan State University. The product of a journalism class, To My Professor: Student Voices for Great College Teaching (Read the Spirit Books) distills thousands of student comments and bits of advice into a cleverly organized, timely read.
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Penn Completes New College House
Vice President Anne Papageorge of Facilities and Real Estate Services and David Hollenberg, university architect, comment on the construction and opening of the New College House.
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Colleges’ Promises to Diversify Face One Challenge: Finding Black Faculty
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education is skeptical of the effort some universities exert to diversify their faculty members.
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Penn’s Lower Schuylkill Innovation Campus Opens New Center to Incubate Big Ideas
The new Pennovation Center is featured.
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Taking a Stand By Refusing to Stand
The debate over whether athletes should stand during the national anthem may have been kicked off this fall in the National Football League, but it has spread to the college ranks. On Wednesday, three West Virginia University Institute of Technology volleyball players fell to their knees during the playing of the national anthem before a game.
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Audio: International Edition 2330 EDT
Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences discusses the ethics of presidential-candidate health and how it is disclosed.