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Former Student Sues Harvard Over Handling of Sexual Crimes Complaints
A lawsuit filed by a Harvard graduate who said she was sexually assaulted by a fellow student and then forced by the university to live in the same dorm as her attacker accuses the institution of failing to protect her and of creating a culture of silence about sexual violence. The lawsuit filed by the former student, Alyssa Leader, on Tuesday in United States District Court in Massachusetts seeks a jury trial for unspecified damages. Ms.
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Education Dept. Defends Its Approach to Title IX in Face of Senate Pressure
The Education Department is standing by its controversial guidance to colleges on sexual harassment and sexual assault in response to questions raised by a prominent Senate critic. Catherine E. Lhamon, the department’s assistant secretary for civil rights, defended her agency’s actions in a letter on Wednesday to Sen. James Lankford, who, as head of the Senate’s subcommittee on regulatory affairs and federal management, had accused the department of overreach in pressuring colleges to fight sexual discrimination to comply with the gender-equity law known as Title IX.
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Bleary-eyed Doctors May Be Better for Patients
David Asch of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School co-authors an article about the length of physician shifts and whether or not that impacts their ability to treat patients.
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Tech Company Will Pay $750 Million to End Patent Fight With Carnegie Mellon
The Marvell Technology Group and Marvell Semiconductor Inc. will pay $750 million to end a long-running patent dispute with Carnegie Mellon University, the university announced on Wednesday. Carnegie Mellon sued in 2009, alleging that the company had infringed a pair of university patents based on the work of a professor and a former student. In 2012 a federal jury awarded the university more than $1 billion in damages, but the case has been through several rounds of appeals since then.
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A Dangerous Loophole in Federal Law Is Putting Women’s Lives at Risk
Susan Sorenson of the School of Social Policy & Practice comments on domestic violence victims being at the highest risk of homicide when they are leaving a relationship.
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Could Obama Lean Right to Replace Scalia?
Kermit Roosevelt of the Law School comments on the process of replacing the late Supreme Court Justice Scalia.
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Study: Penn Has $14.3B Economic Impact
Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli is quoted about Penn’s economic impact report.
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3-D Mammograms Cut False-positive Rates, Study Finds
Emily Conant of the Perelman School of Medicine discusses 3-D mammograms.
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UMass Lifts Lockdown After Report of Armed Man on Campus
The University of Massachusetts at Amherst issued a shelter-in-place order Thursday evening after getting reports of a hostile armed man in a dormitory on campus. A spokesperson for the university did not immediately respond to a request for more information Thursday evening, but university officials had warned students and others on campus, through social media, to stay where they were.
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‘Girls, I’m on Your Team’: Caitlyn Jenner Speaks at Penn
An interview with Caitlyn Jenner, hosted by SPEC, is featured.