5/18
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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The Changing Face of Scientific Collaboration
Academics, it’s often said, don’t play well with others. But that cliché doesn’t apply to all of us. Humanists may derive their practices from the myth of the solitary genius laboring in the garret, but the laboratory sciences are justly known for their culture of collaboration. Bench scientists, as they’re also called, are socialized into lab-based groups.
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Audio: What Patients Consider ‘Worse Than Death’ Can Inform Treatment Choices
Emily Rubin of the Perelman School of Medicine talks about studying what comprises good treatment and care for critically ill patients and what they fear the most.
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Breast Cancer Density Laws Mean More Tests, Unclear Benefit
Emily Conant of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on the precision of breast density ratings.
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Take a Trip Inside NBC’s Olympics Highlights Factory
Undergraduate rower Ethan Genyk of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on working as contributor to NBC’s Olympic highlights factory.
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Penn Vet Researching New Studies to Stop Zika
Michael Povelones of the School of Veterinary Medicine is quoted about studying the mosquito and the Zika virus.
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Too Old for Hard Labor, but Still on the Job
Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School says, “It’s actually easier for blue-collar people to get help thinking about alternative careers because most of the government help is aimed at them.”
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Go Ahead: Waste Time on the Internet.
Kenneth Goldsmith of the School of Arts & Sciences pens an op-ed about spending time browsing the Internet.
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State Higher-education Officials Wrestle with Calls for Diversity and Inclusion
The recent police shootings of unarmed black men in Baton Rouge and Minneapolis, among others, are likely to spur student protests against racism when the fall semester begins. And with those protests will come more demands for racial diversity and inclusion on campuses, including calls for recruiting more students and faculty members from minority groups, and for incorporating those issues broadly in the curriculum.
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Video: Fact-checking Both Sides of the Presidential Race
Eugene Kiely of the Annenberg Public Policy Center presents the findings of FactCheck.org on recent claims and issues related to the republican and democratic presidential candidates.
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Coming to You Soon: Uber U
Over the past two decades, and across the nation, the university has been undergoing profound changes. These structural changes underpin an emergent philosophy of the new university today -- one that should give pause to anyone concerned about the direction of higher education. For much of the 20th century, and especially after World War II, the university served as the vehicle of upward mobility, the principal pathway to securing a middle-class and eventually upper-middle-class life.