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The Totes Amazing Way Millennials Are Changing the English Language
Taylor Jones, a Ph.D. student in the School of Arts & Sciences, is cited for doing linguistics research on how millennials talk.
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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.
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Amazon Pickup Spot Coming to Penn
Vice President Marie Witt of Business Services is quoted about Amazon opening a new pickup location on campus.
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With New Promise by Udacity, Money-back Guarantees Come to Online Courses
Late-night infomercials aren’t the only venue where companies try to lure consumers with money-back guarantees. Now some upstart online-education providers are making the same promise. Udacity, a Silicon Valley-backed provider of MOOCs, announced on Wednesday a new program that guarantees its graduates will land a job in their field within six months of completing the program — or their money back. But there are plenty of caveats.
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Public Shaming
U.S. Representative Jackie Speier, a California Democrat, is no stranger to women’s issues and has previously advocated for more accountability for colleges and universities concerning campus sexual assaults. So it was perhaps unsurprising that she weighed in on a matter of increasingly public concern -- that of sexism in science and, in particular, some institutions’ tendency to quietly allow professors who sexually harass students to move on to other institutions.
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Audio: Meet Me in St. Louis …We’ll Leave for L.A. From There
Kenneth Shropshire of the Wharton School talks about the St. Louis Rams moving to Los Angeles.
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Judge Calls for Jackie to Release Documents in Rolling Stone Lawsuit
A federal judge said Tuesday that a young woman who was the central figure in a sensational Rolling Stone story of a gang rape at the University of Virginia will have to turn over documents related to the retracted article as part of a pending defamation lawsuit. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Glen E. Conrad said in court that he plans to grant most aspects of a motion from lawyers for U-Va. associate dean Nicole Eramo, who is suing Rolling Stone for its depiction of her in a 2014 article about rape at the campus here. The story focused on allegations that a U-Va.
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Poverty and Merit
The nation’s name-brand colleges have made virtually no progress in admitting more low-income students over the last decade, according to the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which is calling for a “poverty preference” in college admissions. In 2013 Pell Grant recipients accounted for 17 percent of first-time, full-time students at the 193 institutions with the most competitive admissions, according to the foundation, which crunched federal data for a newly released report. That was up one percentage point from 16 percent in 2000.
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What Brands Can Learn About Behavior From New Year’s Resolutions
Katherine Milkman of the Wharton School is cited for researching how “temporal landmarks” can spark goal-directed activities.