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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Why Not Tax Bullets?
Richard Gelles of the School of Social Policy & Practice shares his opinion on the idea of taxing gun bullets.
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Are Too Many Choices Costing 401(k) Holders?
Donald Keim and Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School are mentioned for co-authoring a paper about the consequences of having too many choices for 401(k) holders.
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How Diabetes Can Break Your Heart
Mark Schutta and Rhondalyn Forde-McLean of the Perelman School of Medicine are quoted about the effects of diabetes on heart health and the increased risk for cardiovascular disease.
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LEGO Robots Battle, Block to Block
The annual Lego League regional championship held at Penn is highlighted.
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The Fed’s Best-value Schools
Penn is included in a list of colleges and universities highlighting high earnings and low net price for low-income students.
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Yale Educator Recounts ‘Painful Experience’ of Halloween Email Furor
Dodging 5-year-olds at the Calvin Hill Day Care Center here, Erika Christakis admired how the teachers celebrated free play as a route to intellectual inquiry, listened to children rather than preaching and stood back to let them find their own way. “I think we have a very fear-based way of approaching youth,” she said. “Maybe we need to have a lighter touch.” In the fall, Ms. Christakis, a lecturer at Yale and an associate master at Silliman College, a student residence, became an unwitting target of campus protests here against racial insensitivity.
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What the MIT Dean’s New University Can Learn From Past Upstarts
Christine Ortiz sparked a mix of curiosity and skepticism last week, when she announced her plan to step down as dean of graduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and start a nonprofit university with no lectures, no departments, and no tenure. When her as-yet-unnamed university made its way into conversation on social media, some people asked: Doesn’t this model already exist? And do ideas like eliminating departments and courses really work?
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History Jobs Drop
New data from the American Historical Association add to the bad news for academic job seekers in the humanities. The number of job postings the AHA received in 2014-15 was down 8 percent from the prior year. This is the third straight year for which the association is reporting a decline. Job listings are down 45 percent from the 1,064 that the association reported in 2011-12.
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Campus Cops’ ‘Rap Sheet’ Is a Hit
The cops at the University of Delaware are really hitting the rap sheet. And students, among others, apparently love it. The campus cops have created a rap to Drake’s hit “Hotline Bling” that tells students how to connect to safety and security help when they need it. Their new code name is #CopLineBling. “You can all us on the blue phone,” they coo, as they groove and swivel. (The blue phone refers to the blue light emergency phones on campus.) “Call us your cell phooonnneee.
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Global Networks Amplify Local Controversies
What are the implications for universities, and their governing boards/trustees/councils, of becoming increasingly embedded in global networks? There are many implications, including the ability to be interconnected with flows of knowledgeable people (aka human capital), ideas, money, technologies, and so on. These global networks also ensure that international collaborative research and co-authorship occurs, a phenomenon explored on a number of levels in these fascinating reports: