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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Higher Status Jobs But Lower Pay for African-Americans Graduating From HBCUs
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education says, “Understanding the complex and unique return on investment for MSIs is essential as these institutions serve the new majority in higher education.”
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How Driverless Cars Are Putting the Brakes on Road Rage
Erick Guerra of the School of Design comments on the impact self-driving cars can have on urban planning and civil engineering.
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Biden to Tour Labs, Meet Cancer Researchers at Penn
Gary Scheib of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania was cited and the Abramson Cancer Center, Smilow Center for Translational Research and Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine mentioned as sites of Vice President Biden’s visit to campus.
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The Mistake You’re Making With Your Fitbit
Mitesh Patel of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on how there is not enough evidence to know if wearable activity trackers transform health behaviors.
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What Cosby Scandal Teaches Us
Revocation of an honorary degree has risen to the forefront again, occasioned by the recent arrest of Bill Cosby for sexual assault in Pennsylvania in a case for which the statute of limitations has not yet expired. In his lifetime, Cosby has received somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 honorary degrees, and three dozen higher education institutions have not, as of now, rescinded them. It is high time these colleges and universities did so. If ever an easy case for degree revocation existed, this is it.
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Is Obesity More Deadly Than Science Suggests?
Samuel Preston of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for co-authoring a study about obesity and morality.
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Mental Health of College Athletes
Concussions may currently be the most-talked-about safety issue in college sports, but it’s the mental health of athletes that really keeps the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s chief medical officer awake at night, he said here Wednesday. Speaking to a small crowd at the NCAA’s annual meeting, Brian Hainline, the association’s medical chief, said mental health remains a top concern for the association and its members.
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Video: The Hard Line - Mary Brigid McManamon & Kermit Roosevelt
Kermit Roosevelt of the Law School debates about presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s questionable eligibility.
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Penn Starts a ‘Café’ for Alzheimer’s Patients and Caregivers
A memory café to support Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers is featured.
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As An Open-access Megajournal Cedes Some Ground, a Movement Gathers Steam
The world’s largest scientific journal, the open-access giant PLOS ONE, is feeling some pullback. Last year the free site published 10 percent fewer papers than it did two years ago. Its impact factor — a measure that uses citations to track its influence — has been on a five-year slide. Rather than signaling a failure of the open-access movement, however, the declines are looking like the byproduct of a broader victory in a hard-fought campaign. More and more, major publishers are creating their own open-access journals, with articles freely available to anyone.