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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Debating Trump: Whatever Happened to Civility in Politics?
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is quoted about civility during political debates.
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What It Took to Resolve a Federal Sexual-assault Investigation at UVa
When efforts to resolve a federal investigation into how the University of Virginia handled reports of sexual violence began in earnest last spring, campus officials were corresponding with a lawyer in a U.S. Department of Education field office. By the time the case was resolved in September, tense legal wrangling had reached the highest levels of the university, the state, and the federal agency.
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Paying Employees to Lose Weight
Mitesh Patel, David Asch and Kevin Volpp of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School write about using financial incentives to motivate employees to lose weight.
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A Counselor Who Looks Like You
Shaun Harper of the Graduate School of Education comments on colleges that unofficially offer race-specific counseling to students through multicultural centers.
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Letters of Recommendation: An Unfair Part of College Admissions
With some exceptions, selective colleges consider five main parts of an application: transcripts, test scores, personal essays, extracurricular activities and letters of recommendation. Here is a contrarian viewpoint on those letters from the associate vice president for enrollment management and marketing at DePaul University in Chicago. The nation’s largest Catholic university, DePaul does not require SAT or ACT scores or teacher recommendations. It does ask applicants to have their school counselors complete a recommendation form.
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The SNAP Gap: Benefits Aren’t Enough to Keep Many Recipients Fed
Research about SNAP spending, formerly known as food stamps, Eliza Whiteman of the School of Design is cited.
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Penn Researchers: Try Twitter to Recruit Clinical Trial Volunteers
Mina Sedrak of the Abramson Cancer Center at Penn says, “Social media is an untapped resource we might use to boost clinical enrollment.”
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11 Research U’s Improve Low-income Graduation Rates
The University Innovation Alliance this week announced a three-percentage-point collective increase in the proportion of degrees earned by low-income students at its 11 research university members. The improvement occurred in the less than two years since the group formed, with goals of producing more graduates, graduating more students across the socioeconomic spectrum, sharing data and jointly working on completion-related innovations. The group's members also decreased their gap in graduation rates between low-income students and their wealthier peers.
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Smart Drugs: A Dose of Intelligence
Martha Farah of the School of Arts & Sciences shares her thoughts on the effectiveness of “smart drugs.”
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Kylie Jenner’s Lip Kits, Social Status and the Economic of Scarcity
Z. John Zhang of the Wharton School is quoted about what it means for consumers to purchase items not for functionality but for desirability.