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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Mississippi Valley Archaeological Site Reveals Transition From Hunter-gatherer to Farming Cultures of Ancient Native Americans
Meg Kassabaum of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Museum is featured as the project director for the Smith Creek Archeological Project.
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U. of Texas Campus Seeks to Retain Students Through Data and Personal Coaching
It’s difficult to retain students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. Of the students who declared STEM majors at some point from 2003 to 2009, nearly half had switched out of the sciences by 2009. But the newly formed University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley hopes to keep more students in those and related fields — and on track to graduate on time — by mixing big-data and personalized approaches.
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Nina Simone’s Time Is Now, Again
Salamishah Tillet of the School of Arts & Sciences writes about the legacy of singer Nina Simone.
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Charleston, Juneteenth and What It Means to Be Black in America
University chaplain Charles Howard writes about the attack on black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., and on the black experience.
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Crossing the Pond
The most pressing challenge to undergraduate education in the United States is arguably its sharply rising cost. In a 2013 Bloomberg News article, Michelle Jamrisko and Ilan Kolet assert that tuition expenses have increased 538 percent since 1985, compared with a 286 percent jump in medical costs and a 121 percent gain in the Consumer Price Index. Jamrisko and Kolet further write that “the ballooning charges have generated swelling demand for educational loans while threatening to make college unaffordable for domestic and international students.
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Penn Sets the Pace for Free Course Offerings
Penn’s partnership with edX is featured.
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Boot Camp Bolsters Skills of MSI Faculty
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education is quoted about the work of Penn’s Center for Minority Serving Institutions through initiatives like ELEVATE (Enriching Visibility, & Training Educators).
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Sororities Say They, Too, Have a Key Role to Play in Preventing Sexual Assault
The intense scrutiny surrounding sexual assaults on campuses has helped lengthen the list of noes that some fraternities must observe. No more open parties. No kegs, just cans. No hard liquor. No pledging. But at the University of Missouri’s flagship campus, in Columbia, members of the Greek community might soon have to contend with a more drastic change: no women in fraternity houses. At least, not when students are most likely to be partying.
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University of Washington and Chinese University Unite to Form Technology Institute
With hometown companies like Amazon and Microsoft, this bustling region on the Puget Sound easily ranks in the top tier of technology hubs in the United States. But the area lags its peers in one glaring way: It is home to a single major research university, the University of Washington, while nearly every other big technology scene in the country has at least two. For years, that weakness has stoked local unease about whether the gap between the supply of people with computer-related degrees and the surge in demand for those skills could impede the region’s economy.
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Nip. Tuck. Or Else.
David Sarwer of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on plastic surgery trends.