In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
For parents who have the economic means to hire a tutor, this old school educational arrangement may seem like a pandemic-ready panacea. Who wouldn’t want a freshly minted college grad handling that essay on the Gettysburg Address? What could go wrong? Plenty, says Anne Pomerantz, professor of practice at Penn’s Graduate School of Education.
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Virgil Percec, the P. Roy Vagelos Professor of Chemistry, has been elected to the Academia Europaea, which was established in 1988 and is the Pan-European Academy of Sciences Humanities and Letters.
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A new report by Center Steering Committee Member Sophie Maddocks explores how journalists write about trolls and how coverage of trolling could be improved, identifying weaknesses in news coverage of trolls, finding a pattern of narrow and stereotypical reporting among many news outlets. The report offers examples of best-practice coverage that communicates vital information about the conduct of trolls without platforming their views and spreading their messages of hate.
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New research from Penn Medicine finds that making doctors opt out from prescribing cardiac rehabilitation instead of opting in increased referrals by roughly 70%.
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For patients with gynecologic cancers, treatment by a specialist—a gynecologic oncologist—is crucial for improving chances of survival. However, in 2015, as many as 10% of women in the U.S. lived in a county that was more than 50 miles from the closest gynecologic oncologist.
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The fear of asking sensitive questions is overblown, according to new research that shows that most people don’t really mind answering sensitive questions, and asking them doesn’t leave a bad impression. The paper, “The (Better Than Expected) Consequences of Asking Sensitive Questions,” is co-written by Maurice Schweitzer, a Wharton professor of operations, information and decisions.
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SP2 has established the first ever SP2 Social Justice Scholars Program, geared towards funding and fostering an eminent education for graduate students, preferably those graduating from historically black colleges and universities and minority-serving institutions.
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Wharton’s Stephanie Creary talks with John W. Rogers Jr., founder of Ariel Investments, about why board diversity matters and the wealth gap between whites and Blacks in America, which is widening despite decades of progress.
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The Crossroads Project, co-directed by the associate professor of religion and Africana studies, was awarded a $1 million grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. The Crossroads Project: Black Religious Histories, Communities, and Cultures is a new initiative based in the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University. Butler will co-lead the creation of a digital archive of materials related to Black religious life in the U.S.
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AI researchers at Penn, Carnegie Mellon and Johns Hopkins aim to better understand biological intelligence in order to make artificially intelligent systems better able to learn and adapt.
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