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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Yes, People Really Are Driving While Playing Pokemon Go
Catherine McDonald of the School of Nursing comments on teen drivers playing Pokemon Go.
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Gains in Minority Grad Student Enrollments
First-time graduate student enrollments were up 3.9 percent last fall from a year earlier, according to a new report from the Council of Graduate Schools. Each of the last four annual surveys has found that enrollment has increased, but 2015’s bump was one of the biggest since 2009. Contributing to that growth was an increase in the share of underrepresented minority student enrollees, which could be a response to national conversations and institutional initiatives on faculty diversity. At the very least, it’s a possible start to broadening the eventual faculty applicant pool.
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Innovation – Everyone Says It’s the Answer, but Is It What Colleges Need?
You can always chide higher education by referring to innovation in the sector. Or, rather, the supposed lack of it. The criticism should be familiar: Paradoxically, in an industry full of thoughtful people, the imaginative ideas are strangled by dull leadership and organizational bureaucracy. That swipe is at the top of an article on higher education’s "16 most innovative people" in the current issue of Washington Monthly.
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Berkeley Law School Dean Who Resigned Over Sexual Harassment Allegations Files Discrimination Suit
The former dean of UC Berkeley’s law school filed a lawsuit Thursday, accusing school officials of singling him out because of his race for a second investigation of sexual harassment allegations.
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Outrage Over a Coach’s Comments
When asked by a reporter about how he would handle one of his players protesting racial inequality by not standing during the national anthem, Clemson University's head football coach, Dabo Swinney, said he would not resort to discipline. Then Swinney continued to speak for eight minutes, criticizing athletes who have not stood for the anthem in recent weeks and comparing their form of protest unfavorably to the work of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Of those protesting police violence, he said, “Some of these people need to move to another country.”
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SUNY Bans the Box
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A Better Gun Control
Eric Schneider of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about the history of many black Americans distrust of law enforcement and being excluded from the formal labor market.
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One in Nine Emergency Room Patients With Injuries Caused by Violence Will Visit an ER Again Within Two Years, Study Finds
M. Kit Delgado of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on his study on treatment of violent injury victims in the emergency room.
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Video: Exhilarating, and a Little Frightening: A Ride in a Self-driving Car
Daniel Lee of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is quoted about Uber’s services for passengers.
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Melanoma Patient’s Legacy Lives On in $450,000 Gift to Penn Research
Lynn Schuchter of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about the legacy and foundation of her patient Tara Miller.