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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Puerto Rico Oversight Panel Named to Halt Island Debt Crisis
David Skeel of the Law School is named as a member of a bipartisan board that will oversee the restructuring of Puerto Rico’s debt crisis.
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Psoriasis May Carry Clogged-arteries Risk Similar to That With Diabetes
Joel Gelfand of the Perelman School of Medicine says, “Patients with more severe psoriasis have a similar increased risk of major adverse cardiovascular events compared to diabetes.”
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Strings Attached
Terms of a pizza-and-sports magnate family’s $40 million gift to build Wayne State University’s business school have come under scrutiny in Detroit, with clauses about donor consultation on curriculum and dean pay catching attention in particular. But while a donation agreement between Wayne State and Michael and Marian Ilitch reveals intriguing details about the current tricks of the trade in university fund-raising, much of it is actually keeping with current trends.
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Renewed Diversity Push
Shaun Harper of the Graduate School of Education comments on the value of diversity and multicultural programs.
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Non-surgical Brain Stimulation Shows Promise, but Unknowns Remain
Roy Hamilton of the Perelman School of Medicine says, “To our knowledge, tDCS [transcranial direct current stimulation] is pretty safe technology. It has not yet been associated with serious adverse effects.”
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Why College Alumni Don’t Give to Their Alma Maters: They Think Other Charities Need Money More
Nearly half of alumni who have never donated to their alma maters believe their college does not need their money as much as other nonprofits, according to a new survey of American donors. That’s a perennial challenge for university fundraisers, according to the study by Cygnus Applied Research, a fundraising consultancy. More than 21,000 donors completed the annual survey, including more than 6,200 college graduates who give to charity but have never donated to institutions they attended.
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How a University Is Training Its Police to Take a Trauma-Informed Approach to Sexual Violence
Noël Busch-Armendariz knows that the immediate aftermath of sexual trauma can take many forms. Victims can appear fidgety or calm, talkative or quiet, engaged or totally blank, she says. And they often cannot remember details of what happened to them until much later. Ms. Busch-Armendariz, a professor in the School of Social Work and director of the Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault at the University of Texas at Austin, also knows that this wide range of behaviors conflicts with common perceptions about how victims of rape should behave.
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Yale Graduate Students Look to Unionize After Labor Board Ruling
Teaching fellows at Yale University have filed petitions with the National Labor Relations Board to join UNITE-HERE, days after a board decision granting graduate students the legal protection to unionize. “We’re really looking forward to the NLRB process,” said Aaron Greenberg, a graduate student in political science who chairs the Graduate Employees and Students Organization at Yale University. “We look forward to winning our election and beginning to negotiate our contract and resolving some issues that are important to our members.”
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Corpses, Pythons, Sleep Deprivation: Meditation Rituals in Thailand can Be Intense
Justin McDaniel of the School of Arts & Sciences talks about the practice of corpse meditation in Thailand.
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Video: Drugmakers Exploit Government-granted Monopolies: Ex-Obama Health Advisor
Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School talks about the controversy around EpiPen pricing.