PBS NewsHour

Brief but Spectacular: Imani Davis

English and Africana Studies major Imani Davis of New York City performed a #MeToo movement-inspired poem on the “Brief but Spectacular” segment of the “PBS NewsHour.”

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Chronicle of Higher Education

How Serious Are You About Diversity Hiring?

The Graduate School of Education’s Marybeth Gasman discussed the disconnect between universities’ messaging on diversity and the realities of their hiring practices and treatment of faculty of color.

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  • Words matter: how lyrics help songs top the charts

    Marketing professors discuss the paper “Are Atypical Songs More Popular?”, which reports on a study using natural language processing to analyze the lyrics of hundreds of songs in order to determine whether the lyrics affect a song's popularity. 

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  • Penn Medicine biochemist awarded for research on epigenetic protein modifications

     Benjamin A.Garcia, an expert in quantitative proteomics, was awarded the Biemann Medal by the American Society for Mass Spectrometry for significant achievement in basic or applied mass spectrometry.

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  • Landscape architecture students inform revitalization in the Highlands

    Students of the Master of Landscape Architecture program at PennDesign have chosen four sites in the Highlands, a 1.85 million-acre ecoregion from northwestern Connecticut to eastern Pennsylvania to focus a living landscape design intervention directly. 

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    • Philadelphia Inquirer

    After Trump G-7 Blast, Tension Hangs Over July NATO Meeting, Efforts to Deter Russia

    Perry World House Fellow Derek Chollet and the School of Arts and Sciences’ Mitchell Orenstein offered commentary on the Trump administration’s relationships with U.S. allies.

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    Reuters Health

    Workplace Noise in Daytime Linked to Sleep Problems at Night

    The Perelman School of Medicine’s Mathias Basner weighed in on the effects of noise environments on stress levels.

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    Nature

    Microsoft’s Purchase of GitHub Leaves Some Scientists Uneasy

    Post-doc Daniel Himmelstein of the Perelman School of Medicine discussed problematic elements of GitHub’s model. “Regardless of the Microsoft acquisition, GitHub, as a centralized and closed company, possesses a dangerous level of control over the open-source ecosystem,” said Himmelstein.

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  • Spreading the health

    The  Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation (PTSF) is using the kind of geospatial analysis other industries use to determine future trauma centers, in an effort to analyze the best possible placement to meet trauma patients needs effectively.

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  • From Bach to rock: how music preferences predict behavior

    A study, by Wharton marketing professor Gideon Nave analyzes music preference and personality, and how marketing may use this data for personalized product offerings.

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