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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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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.
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Four Your Anti-Union Information
The National Labor Relations Board ruled last week that graduate student workers at private institutions may now form unions. But they need to vote to unionize first. In the meantime, a handful of institutions, including those with active graduate assistant union campaigns, have either launched or updated websites that they term information, but that are attracting criticism as being “anti-union.” Others say universities have an obligation to inform students of the drawbacks to unionization — not just the benefits.
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So You Like the University of Chicago’s Rejection of ‘Safe Spaces’ for Students? Consider This.
University of Chicago Dean of Students John “Jay” Ellison just sent a letter to incoming students, telling them: You will find that we expect members of our community to be engaged in rigorous debate, discussion and even disagreement.
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Video: Why Data Citation Is a Computational Problem
Susan Davidson of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is featured about how researchers can cite a particular search of a given database so others can duplicate that search.
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Virginia Tech Alerts Campus After Emails Threaten Violence; Police Say People at Four Other Schools Got the Same Threats
Virginia Tech officials warned the campus community after threatening emails arrived at multiple campus email addresses Monday afternoon. Campus police are investigating. “We take all threats seriously,” spokesman Mark Owczarski wrote in an email Monday afternoon. “We issued a campus wide email to make the community aware and ask people to share information if they have any.” Later in the afternoon, campus police reported that people at four other universities had received the same email, he said.
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Are You Career Competent?
Joseph Barber of Career Services writes about the importance of graduate students and postdocs articulating their competencies to prospective employers.
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Point-Counterpoint: Should Pa. Let Nurse-practitioners Do More?
Dean Antonia Villarruel of the School of Nursing offers her views on proposed legislation to expand the duties of nurse-practitioners.
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Online Petition Circulated to Extend Mangum’s Contract
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education shares her thoughts on the president of Florida A&M University and its Board of Trustees.
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Duke Withdraws Claim Against Aubrey McClendon’s Estate
Duke University said it has withdrawn a claim for about $10 million it made against the estate of oil man Aubrey McClendon, who died before he could make good on pledges the North Carolina college said he made to his alma mater. A spokesman for the university said paperwork asking to withdraw the claim was filed on Friday in the Oklahoma City district court where the Chesapeake Energy Corp. co-founder’s estate is being wound down. Records in that case show the claim was filed Aug. 12, but it was only made public last week and first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
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Feds Target ‘Predatory’ Publishers
The Federal Trade Commission on Friday filed a complaint against the academic journal publisher OMICS Group and two of its subsidiaries, saying the publisher deceives scholars and misrepresents the editorial rigor of its journals. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, marks the first time the FTC has gone after what are often known as “predatory” publishers.