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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Are Elite College Courses Better?
The public -- and heck, many people in higher education -- widely assume prestigious colleges and universities provide the best quality education. That's why employers often want to hire their graduates and why many parents want their children to attend them.
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Belly Fat Raises Risk of Death Even If Weight Is ‘Healthy’
Mitchell Lazar of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on visceral fat.
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Hillary Clinton Is an ‘Intro-Extrovert,’ and Maybe You Are Too
Adam Grant of the Wharton School is cited for his research on ambiversion.
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Penn Study: Pay Patients to Take Their Pills
David Asch and Kevin Volpp of the Perelman School of Medicine are highlighted for studying how monetary incentives can help patients take medicine to help reduce health issues.
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Does Brisk Walking Beat the Gym for Weight Control?
Rex Ahima of the Perelman School of Medicine shares his thoughts on a study that revealed the impact of brisk walking on body mass indexes and waist circumference when compared to people who played sports or exercised in the gym.
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Hundreds March at Yale in Solidarity With Minority Students
A crowd of hundreds stopped traffic on city streets surrounding the Yale University campus Monday in a march to show solidarity with minority students who say they are barred from full participation at the Ivy League school. Winding their way past the university’s four cultural centers — and the Yale chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, where brothers have been accused of turning black women away from a party last weekend — students displayed signs urging the university to support women of color, faculty of color and ethnic studies. One sign read: “Your move Yale.”
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The Temptation of Baylor
When Grant Teaff arrived at Baylor University to coach football in 1972, the university’s stadium was in as poor shape as its floundering team. The way Teaff tells it, the bleachers were made of splintering wood and “there wasn’t a blade of grass on the field.” There certainly wasn’t a weight room for his players to train in. Teaff decided his team should have one, even if it was just a concrete block shoved underneath the stadium seats. He needed a way to finance the project, so he asked a well-connected friend and booster named Charlie Jones to ask around.
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The Weird World of Brain Hacking
Roy Hamilton of the Perelman School of Medicine is mentioned for studying electrical brain stimulation.
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At Yale, Painful Rifts Emerge Over Diversity and Free Speech
Black women matter." "History is watching." "I refuse to be complicit." Dozens of messages like those were scrawled in chalk on a wide swath of stone in front of Yale University's largest library on Thursday. By Friday evening they had begun to fade, rubbed out in places by the steady stream of students' shoes. But the tensions that have flared on the campus for the past week and a half seem likely to leave a more permanent mark on this elite institution, which finds itself roiled by a heated debate about race relations and free speech.
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Wormholes May Limit Landslides
Doctoral candidate Emma Harrison and undergraduate student Aria Kovalovich of the School of Arts & Sciences are featured for researching endogeic worms.