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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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The Takeaway That Could Make You Exercise More
Mitesh Patel of the Perelman School of Medicine and Kevin Volpp of Medicine and the Wharton School are quoted about incentives to help people lose weight.
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Why a Constitutional Originalist Would Reject the GOP’s Delay, Delay, Delay Tactics
Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School writes about “originalism.”
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Audio: Teaching Medical Professionals How to Talk to Transgender Patients
Katie Margo of the Perelman School of Medicine is featured for training medical professionals in how to talk to transgender patients.
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Mount St. Mary’s Alum: We Need to Stop Our University From Destroying Itself
Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland is in turmoil over its leadership, with a nearly unanimous vote by faculty calling on president Simon Newman to resign by Monday morning, and some of his supporters planned a rally Monday morning to counter that.
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Into the Mosh Pit: Republican Campaign Talk Gets Nastier
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is quoted about how Donald Trump has ‘“hijacked” political correctness to justify his use of personal attacks.
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Faculty Asked the Mount St. Mary’s President to Resign. He Didn’t.
On Friday, faculty at Mount St. Mary’s asked, by an 87-to-3 vote, for university President Simon Newman to resign by 9 a.m. Monday. The time came and went. And the university was closed Monday because of a snowstorm, so professors did not meet to discuss their reaction to Newman’s decision. They will later in the week, said David McCarthy, secretary to the faculty. Newman was on campus for a student rally Monday morning and thanked the students for their support.
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This Week in Tech History: John Glenn Orbits the Earth, the First Computer Debuts
ENIAC is included on a list of tech and science highlights.
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Local Professors Discuss Scalia’s Legacy, What’s Next for the U.S. Supreme Court
Kermit Roosevelt of the Law School comments on President Obama nominating replacement for the late Justice Scalia on the Supreme Court.
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Cornell’s Plan to Merge Hotel School Gets an Icy Reception
They call themselves “hotelies”: students and alumni of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, the world’s oldest undergraduate program devoted to the hospitality industry and, many say, the best. The school is considered the Harvard of hospitality programs, consistently topping best-of lists and rankings. Its graduates, school officials like to say, do not just run individual hotels, they own entire hotel chains or groups of restaurants.
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Are Too Many Choices Costing 401(k) Holders?
The research of Donald B. Keim and Olivia S. Mitchell of the Wharton School is quoted.