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How Donald Trump Turned Media Spectacle Into Campaign Wins
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center talks about Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy.
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More Students Seeing the World Without Getting Credits
When Messiah College senior Courtney Allen went to study abroad in Panama in 2013, she wasn’t concerned with earning academic credit.
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Constantly Bolstering Computer Security Is Vital
Matt Blaze of the School of Engineering and Applied Science pens an op-ed about strengthening computer security.
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Audio: Forget Edibles: Getting High on Wearables
Roy Hamilton of the Perelman School of Medicine is interviewed about wearable brain enhancing consumer technology.
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Governor Invites Yale to Move to Florida. Yale Politely Declines.
It’s not every day that Yale University gets an offer like this: Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) invited the 315-year-old Ivy League institution to move to the Sunshine State. The Connecticut legislature has a proposal to impose a tax on some investment profits from the university’s $26.5 billion endowment, and Scott seized on the opportunity to tempt the historic New Haven school to warmer climes. “We would welcome a world-renowned university like Yale to our state and I can commit that we will not raise taxes on their endowment,” Scott announced in a news release Tuesday.
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U of California Accused of Favoring Non-Californians
Facing severe budget cuts from the state around 2010, University of California campuses started increasing their admission of out-of-state students, who pay much higher tuition rates than do California residents. UC officials never made a secret of the strategy, and some even spoke of hoping parents of high school students would start lobbying for larger state appropriations. That didn't happen.
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Supreme Court Struggles to Deal With 4-4 Split
Stephanos Bibas of the Law School says, “We may not have another justice on the court for another year. If they just ditch this case, for a year you persist in having different laws in different parts of the country.”
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Two Indian American Penn Undergrads Named 2016 President’s Engagement Prize Winners
Undergraduates Vaishak Kumar and Kriya Patel are highlighted as two winners of the President’s Engagement Prize.
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Hacker Sends Anti-Semitic Fliers to Network Printers at Princeton, Many Other Colleges
A notorious white supremacist computer hacker has claimed responsibility for sending anti-Semitic fliers to networked printers at several universities across the country, a coordinated cyberattack that included the University of Maryland and Princeton among thousands of targets.
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How Do I Know If I Have Lyme Disease? The One Telltale Sign You Should Look for
Anne Norris of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about the warning signs of Lyme disease.