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New Model of ‘Smart Campus’? Carnegie Mellon to Embed Sensors Across Landscape
Imagine a world where you’re driving to campus, and before you get there, your car tells you to park in one lot because it already knows another is full. That could soon be the reality at Carnegie Mellon University, where researchers have teamed up with Google to place wireless sensors around the campus to connect everyday items with the web. The idea is to make life more convenient, and to provide useful data about the campus, said Anind K. Dey, the project’s lead investigator and an associate professor at the university’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
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Study: Repaired Vacant Houses Coincide With a Drop in Crime
John McDonald of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited as a coauthor on a study about how repairing vacant houses can have an impact on reducing crime. Charles Branas of the Perelman School of Medicine also shares his research on reducing crime and helping improve health in urban areas.
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Researchers Find Your Advertising Helps Sell Your Products – And Your Rivals’ Products Too
Michael Sinkinson and Amanda Starc of the Wharton School are cited for their paper entitled, “Ask Your Doctor? Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Pharmaceuticals.”
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Campaigns Against Microaggressions Prompt Big Concerns About Free Speech
Graduate students employed by the University of Washington don’t have to put up with workplace microaggressions. It says so right in their union’s contract. Under the terms of a new collective-bargaining agreement between the public university’s administration and its graduate researchers and teaching assistants, such employees’ work environments should "be free from everyday exchanges — including words and actions" that denigrate or exclude them as members of some group or class.
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China’s Weakened Stock Market Has Ripple Effects
Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School comments on the Chinese stock market.
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Audio: Civil Rights Activist: Battle Flag Debate Distracts From Real Race Issues
Mary Frances Berry of the School of Arts & Sciences discusses the Confederate flag removal from the South Carolina State House grounds and what is next in terms of addressing race relations.
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Many Title IX Coordinators Are New to the Job and Juggling Many Duties
Ask colleges’ Title IX coordinators today about their responsibilities, and you’ll hear a long list. They’ll talk about sexual-assault prevention, investigations, and educational programming. Or the sometimes dizzying complexities of the federal gender-equity law called Title IX, which are prompting more colleges to devote whole offices to compliance.
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Oklahoma’s Ten Commandments Case Is Part of An Age-old Battle in U.S.
Sarah Gordon of the Law School and the School of Arts & Sciences talks about the origin of the political import of displays like the Ten Commandments monument.
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In Students’ Minds, Textbooks Are Increasingly Optional Purchases
The average amount that college students spend on course materials appears to be declining. But not necessarily because textbooks are cheaper. A growing number of students, surveys show, simply skip buying required course materials. A survey of undergraduates on 23 campuses by the National Association of College Stores, expected to be released on Thursday, found that students spent an average of $563 on course materials during the 2014-15 academic year, compared with $638 the year before.
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Penn Diabetes Drug Study Shows Promise of Personalized Medicine
Mitchell Lazar of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about leading a research team studying anti-diabetes drugs called thiazolidinediones (TZDs).