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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Racial Disparities Persist in Some Types of Cancer
Eve Higginbotham of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about racial disparities in some types of cancers and other diseases.
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Mortgage Repayment: Questions About Monthly Payment Management (Second of a Series)
Jack Guttentag of the Wharton School answers questions about mortgage repayment.
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The Scary Rise in Benzo Overdoses
Perelman School of Medicine researchers are cited for a collaborative study about benzodiazepine overdoses.
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Never Finished College? Washington State Lawmakers Want to Help.
Lawmakers in the state of Washington want to give college dropouts a chance to finish their degree for free, a novel proposal that could have far-reaching implications for boosting national completion rates. Washington’s Free to Finish College bill, which is wending its way through the legislature with bipartisan support, calls for the state to cover tuition for residents who are 15 credits short of an associates or bachelor’s degree.
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Winners and Losers in Shifting Grad Education
Pay for graduate teaching assistants in the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University is among the lowest in the Big Ten -- a little less than $14,000 a year, before taxes. So the college’s recent announcement that it’s raising graduate pay to $15,000 or more next year was good news -- to some.
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What Americans Know and Fear About Zika
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on the concerns Americans have about the Zika virus.
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Is the Word ‘Plantation’ Racist?
In an 1862 letter, Andrew Dickson White, Cornell University’s first president, described his idea of a great university: “It must have the best of Libraries -- collections in different departments -- Laboratory -- Observatory -- Botanical Garden perhaps …” The university's gardens were created over 70 years later, and they were called the Cornell Plantations. Today the Plantations contain a botanical garden, an arboretum, and a network of nature preserves. But the name, opponents argue, evokes the language of slavery.
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Calls to Change U. of Alabama Building Name to Honor Harper Lee Instead of KKK Leader
A University of Alabama junior is asking that a building on campus be renamed to honor an alumna, the author Harper Lee, rather than a former senator who was a Confederate general and a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Her petition, which had nearly 2,000 digital signatures within days of being posted online after Lee’s death, joins a growing number of calls at universities across the country to reconsider traditions, names and symbols of the past.
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Audio/Video: Sandra González-Bailón, University of Pennsylvania – Slacktivism
Sandra González-Bailón of the Annenberg School for Communication is profiled and explains the rise of slacktivism.
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Chinese Move Money Abroad as Economy Slows
Sam Chandan of the Wharton School says, “Chinese investors are the newest players on the scene, but they have very quickly grown to become the dominant player in those gateway markets.”