Granite ‘Stumps’ on Mount Royal Run Counter to Park Designer's Vision: Experts Montreal Gazette Granite ‘Stumps’ on Mount Royal Run Counter to Park Designer's Vision: Experts Witold Rybczynski of the School of Design comments on the history of placing statues and art objects in parks.
Service Robots Are Coming to Help Us Phys.org Service Robots Are Coming to Help Us Mark Yim of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is quoted on how robots can be commercially viable.
$1,300 to Take One Test? Med Students are Fed Up The Washington Post $1,300 to Take One Test? Med Students are Fed Up Before heading out into the field, U.S. medical students must prove they can translate years of training into actual patient care. They have long had to pass a series of time consuming, arduous exams that judge their grasp of the concepts and practices central to being a doctor.
Finding Ways to Keep Patients at Home The New York Times Finding Ways to Keep Patients at Home David Casarett of the Perelman School of Medicine writes about keeping the elderly in their homes near the end of life.
Measuring Inclusivity Inside Higher Ed Measuring Inclusivity Across the country, many colleges are making the same promises: we will do more to support our minority students. We care deeply about diversity. We are committed to an inclusive campus.
To Track a Predator: How the Police Identify Threats on Social Media Chronicle of Higher Education To Track a Predator: How the Police Identify Threats on Social Media Last year James Fitch, chief of campus police at North Central Texas College, patrolled several buildings during an emergency-alert test to see how faculty and students responded. Later that day his office noticed that a student had posted a warning on Facebook: A man was meandering through a campus hallway, the student reported, with a loaded gun.
FDA Panel Backs Teva's Abuse-resistant Opioid Painkiller Fox News FDA Panel Backs Teva's Abuse-resistant Opioid Painkiller Jeanmarie Perrone of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on the concerns about high-dose opioids.
Penn Trial on Alzheimer's Intervention Recruits Underrepresented African-American Volunteers Newsworks (WHYY-FM) Penn Trial on Alzheimer's Intervention Recruits Underrepresented African-American Volunteers Kathy Jedrziewski of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on her study testing the effect of African dance on the quality of life, mood and cognitive ability of older people.
On Eve of Graduation, University of Chicago Student President Faces Expulsion The New York Times On Eve of Graduation, University of Chicago Student President Faces Expulsion On an afternoon in May, 34 protesters breached the locked doors of the administration building at the University of Chicago and dashed upstairs to the fifth-floor lobby of the president’s office.
This New Psoriasis Drug May Offer Long-term Skin Improvement Health.com This New Psoriasis Drug May Offer Long-term Skin Improvement Joel Gelfand of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on the “unprecedented efficacy” of a new drug for psoriasis.