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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Motion Control Running Shoes Prevent Injuries in Some
Rahul Kapur of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on those that would benefit from motion-control shoes.
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Whites, Asians, Males See More Rewards From Business School Degree
The Wharton School was cited in a Bloomberg study on pay gaps between business school graduates.
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Philadelphia Newspapers Website Handed Off to New Nonprofit
Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication is quoted about how donating the Philadelphia Daily News, the Philadelphia Inquirer and philly.com to a new nonprofit media institute will affect their bottom line.
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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Rolling Stone story of a gang rape at the University of Virginia will have to turn over documents related to the retracted article as part of a pending defamation lawsuit.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.
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Mapping a MOOC Reveals Global Patterns in Student Engagement
Teaching an online course that 49,000 students have signed up for presents an unprecedented challenge when it comes to an important aspect of instruction: knowing your audience. I could see from my course "dashboard" in Coursera that the students hailed from 190 countries, with 6 percent from India, 31 percent from the United States, and so on, but these numbers only took me so far. I wondered which places had lots of students earning a passing grade? Which places had students who were really engaged with the course? Since I’m a cartographer, it made sense to make some maps.
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Jackie’s Rape Story Was False. So Why Hasn’t The Media Named Her By Now?
In the 14 months since her story shocked the world, Jackie has been at the heart of a national debate about sexual assaults on college campuses, has become embroiled in a media scandal, and is the central figure in a series of defamation lawsuits. Yet there’s one important fact missing about Jackie, the young woman who concocted a harrowing story about a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity: her full name. News organizations have declined to reveal Jackie’s full identity since her now-discredited story appeared in Rolling Stone magazine in November 2014.
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Will Justices Be Consistent in Their Convictions?
Mitchell Berman of the Law School and the School of Arts & Sciences pens an op-ed about consistency in the Supreme Court’s decisions regarding constitutional challenges to race-based preferences in university admissions.
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Video: Art of Aging: Screenings Save Lives
Carmen Guerra of the Perelman School of Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center talks about the importance of colon cancer screening.