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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Ants Can Change Their Roles, Study Finds
Shelley Berger of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts and Sciences discusses her research on the DNA of ants.
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Video: Penn Engineers Digitize the Sense of Touch
A TED Talk about haptography by Katherine Kuchenbecker of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is highlighted.
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Enrollment Challenges at Several Colleges in Virginia and Maryland
Sweet Briar College, a small women’s school in rural Virginia, got much smaller in 2015 amid the tumult of a shutdown plan announced abruptly in March and then canceled three months later.
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Audio: When Willpower Isn’t Enough: A Freakonomics Radio Rebroadcast
Katherine Milkman of the Wharton School talks about behavioral economics.
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The Case for an Entirely New Calendar
Vanessa Ogle of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about calendar reform.
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The Family That Makes Kosher Together
Penn is cited as an area university that has a mashgiac to oversee kosher dining.
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Melodies Night and Day in This Columbia Dorm
Just inside the entrance to River Hall, a Columbia University dormitory in northern Manhattan, is a suite that on the surface seems like a typical college residence.
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Universities Race to Nurture Start-Up Founders of the Future
The original charter of Rice University, drafted in 1891, established a school here dedicated to the advancement of literature, science and art. These days, Rice seems equally dedicated to the advancement of the next Mark Zuckerberg.
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USC Law School Seeks to Smooth the Way for First-Generation Students
The students nodded in agreement when a speaker talked about feeling "like a fraud in class." Later, they talked about worrying about passing their classes or fleeting thoughts about even dropping out of school.
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UC System Divests $30 Million in Prison Holdings Amid Student Pressure
The University of California system has sold about $30 million of its holdings in companies that operate private prisons after students voiced their opposition to such investments.