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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Trump-friendly Newsmax bundled into Comcast’s Xfinity service
The Annenberg School for Communication’s Victor Pickard discussed conservative news channel Newsmax and its recent deal with Comcast. If Comcast is “feeling the heat from the right, it will make sense to appease some of those critics,” said Pickard.
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The man in charge of Pa.’s commutation system says it’s broken. Can it be fixed?
Kathleen Brown of the School of Nursing spoke about her frustrations with the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons, which has ignored evidence of rehabilitation, instead examining the original crime itself. “That’s not what it’s supposed to be,” she said. “They’re supposed to be evaluating people as they are now.”
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Villanova is in for a fight from this Philadelphia-area rival
As is tradition in the Philadelphia area, the local college basketball teams are hooking up in the yearly Big Five rivalry games with Villanova and Pennsylvania taking center stage on Tuesday.
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Against endorsing the Chicago principles
The Graduate School of Education’s Sigal Ben-Porath wrote about the Chicago principles, which many institutions use as a guide to handling free-speech issues, and its shortcomings. The principles “rely on a legalistic and formal framework that purports to offer a response to a set of problems that has little use for such blunt tools,” she said.
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Nissan-Renault scandal shows it’s hard to keep car alliances on track
Harbir Singh of the Wharton School discussed the difficulties of corporate alliances in and beyond the auto industry. He attributed the low success rate to companies overestimating their savings and underestimating the challenges of merging businesses.
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What now for human genome editing?
The Perelman School of Medicine’s James Wilson discussed possible venues for the scientific oversight of controversial research. The FDA could be a good option, he suggested, but the organization would have to change its confidentiality restrictions to supervise effectively.
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Justin Morrison: Penn’s impact player on the field and in the lab
Senior Justin Morrison of Swedesboro, N.J., spent last summer working with Penn Presbyterian Medical Center on a study about traumatic brain injuries. “It was really cool working with Dr. Sangobowale knowing that he was a … Penn alumni who was on the field doing the same things I was,” said Morrison.
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Philly affirms commitment to slashing emissions as study shows global increase
Christine Simeone of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy spoke about cities and states’ continued efforts in the fight against climate change. “In the absence of a national strategy, the state and local strategies actually become much more important,” said Simeone.
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The secret to buying the perfect diamond
The Wharton School’s Katja Seim spoke about her research on diamond pricing, which found that the gems can cost 12 to 21 percent higher when purchased from leading online retailers.
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The 10 most common types of cancer in the United States
Thomas Karasic of the Perelman School of Medicine weighed in on treatments for liver and pancreatic cancers.