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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Letters: The Start of School – A Time of Helping and Letting Go
Dean Eric Furda of Admissions shares his opinion about transition and changes that occur when the school year begins.
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Vaccine Inventor Raises Alarm on Lyme Disease
Stanley Plotkin of the Perelman School of Medicine urges the development of a vaccine for Lyme disease.
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The Unexpected Ways Sleep Deprivation Makes Life Tougher
Naomi Goel and David Dinges of the Perelman School of Medicine are featured for their research on sleep deprivation.
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Here Is What Science Says About the Need for Trigger Warnings
Edna Foa of the Perelman School of Medicine talks about developing prolonged exposure therapy, a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Welcome, Freshmen. Look at Me When I Talk to You.
Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education writes about students focusing more on the professor and less on the browser windows open on their computers.
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How to Do a Better Job of Searching for Diversity
As the members of the search committee gather for the first time, their goal seems straightforward: create a shortlist of finalists for the tenure-track position in their department. It’s agreed that anyone receiving one or more "outstanding" votes will be considered for a phone interview, and the rest will be dropped. Alice, a recently hired associate professor, really likes one candidate, but the other members tell her they’ve met him and he’s "a disaster," with a "terrible personality." He’s eliminated.
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Clinton Health Scare Shows How Both Candidates Skirt Close Coverage
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on the level of access the media should get from both presidential candidates.
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Enrollments Surge at Historically Black Colleges Amid Rise in Racial Tensions
Racial tension rose on many colleges and university campuses last year, with protests erupting on dozens of campuses and a national debate over “safe spaces,” “trigger warnings” and freedom of expression. A recent survey of college and university presidents conducted by Insider Higher Ed and Gallup found that less than 25 percent thought race relations on campuses other than their own were good or excellent during 2015-16 (though 84 percent said race relations on their own campuses were just fine).
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Open Doors but Different Laws
Research about UAE wages for foreigners from Shing-Yi Wang of the Wharton School is cited.
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Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces and Free Speech, Too
I didn’t get the University of Chicago welcome letter that made the rounds on the internet earlier this summer. I’m a senior this year, and the message from Jay Ellison, the dean of undergraduate students, was for the incoming class: Don’t expect trigger warnings or safe spaces here. The university, he said, was committed to free expression and would not shield students from ideas they disagreed with or found offensive. The implication was that students who support trigger warnings and safe spaces are narrow-minded, oversensitive and opposed to dialogue.