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We Know You Hate ‘Moist.’ What Other Words Repel You?
Mark Liberman of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for exploring the concept of word aversion, particularly about the word “moist.”
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Postdoc Now, Think Later
Every postdoctoral fellow has probably heard a “permadoc” joke or two, making light of the increasingly long stints recent Ph.D.s spend in such positions. But has the postdoc become the default for graduates -- even for those for whom it doesn’t necessarily make sense? Has it become a holding pattern rather than a bridge to more permanent work? A new study in Science by two business professors suggests that’s the case and calls for increased attention to career planning among students, mentors, graduate schools and those funding postdocs.
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Video: Penn Dedicates New Trauma Center in Slain Doctor’s Honor
President Amy Gutmann says, “We live in a time that calls for heroes whose lives bear testimony to everything that is kind, that is brave, that is selfless.”
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Rivers Can Resist Floods From Climate Change
Douglas Jerolmack of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about a study he co-authored on the effect of heavy rainfalls on river erosion.
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Barcelona Rising
Surely few laboratories can match the views from Barcelona Biomedical Research Park on the city’s busy beachfront. From the sun-dappled balconies of the modernist €120 million ($138 million) institute, scientists can watch boats sail out from the Olympic Port, swimmers take a dip in the Mediterranean and tourists zip along the seafront promenade on motorized scooters.
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Here Is the Surprising Winner of Last Week’s UberPITCH Event
MBA students Siddharth Shah, Shashwata Narain of the Wharton School and graduate student Alexander David of the School of Engineering and Applied Science are featured for creating Fermento, a technology that speeds up the fermentation process in beer production. This was technology was develop in the lab of David Issadore of Engineering.
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Timing of U. Of Iowa’s Alert to Students of a Possible Hate Crime Fuels Racial Tensions
Monday night the Iowa City Police Department received a report from a black University of Iowa student who said he had been attacked in a potential hate crime outside an off-campus bar. Three days later the university sent to students a campus-crime alert by email and text. That response followed standard crime-alert protocol, but it incited fierce criticism from students who viewed the reaction as unacceptably delayed.
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New Advances in Growing Human Embryos Could Prompt Ethical Firestorm
Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences comments on the 14-day cut-off rule for scientists to stop conducting experiments on human embryos.
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Reported Campus Sexual Assaults Have Risen Sharply as Overall Crime Has Fallen
The number of reported crimes on college campuses has dropped in the past two decades, but there has been a significant increase in sexual assaults, according to a report released on Wednesday. The report, “Indicators of School Crime and Safety 2015,” is the latest edition of an annual report that provides insight into safety problems at elementary, secondary, and postsecondary institutions around the country. It was prepared by the National Center for Education Statistics, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the American Institutes for Research.
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No Pain, No Gain
College is a balancing act, and it can be hard to manage the demands of classwork while staying healthy and fit. But spending an afternoon at the gym might yield positive results in the library, a new study finds. When college students exercise more, they don’t just get healthier -- they are also more likely to succeed academically. The study, conducted by researchers at North Carolina State University, looked at 20,000 students’ recreational activities during the 2013-14 school year.