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Do Deals and Exits Aimed at Producing Social Good Sacrifice Returns?
Christopher Geczy of the Wharton School says, “The tension between profit and social purpose may not be as pronounced as people suggest.”
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Change the Course of Biomedical History
President Amy Gutmann writes about the impact the 21st Century Cures Act can have on biomedical research and history.
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MIT Floats a New Online Credential: The MicroMaster’s
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced Wednesday the creation of an online track for getting a certain type of master’s degree, an experiment with the potential to open up its admissions process to the world as never before. Here’s the idea: Anyone can take a suite of courses in supply chain management designed by MIT through the free online Web site known as edX. Those who do well in that semester of study and pass a set of proctored exams can earn what’s called a “MicroMaster’s” from the online unit of MIT called MITx.
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How Scientists Fool Themselves – and How They Can Stop
Jonathan Baron of the School of Arts & Sciences and Uri Simonsohn of Arts & Sciences and the Wharton School are quoted.
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Penn Scientists’ Work on ‘Ghost Particles’ Contributed to Nobel Win
Josh Klein and Eugene Beier of the School of Arts & Sciences are highlighted for being a part of a group of researchers who helped design and build high-tech particle detectors and analyzed results.
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Student Debt Is Worse Than You Think
After a series of blockbuster hearings held 25 years ago on abuses in the higher education industry, Congress created a system to protect undergraduates from risky student loans. But two weeks ago, the Education Department released a trove of new data suggesting that the system is failing and that, at some colleges, the saddling of students with loans they cannot afford to pay down is far more dire than anyone knew. The loan crisis hits hardest at colleges enrolling large numbers of students from low-income backgrounds.
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‘We Live on Edge’
Jessie Cain was on his way to pay his son's tuition bill at the Community College of Philadelphia yesterday morning when crime-scene tape went up around him on Spring Garden Street near 16th and police officers forced him back down the block. Reports of an armed man on campus had placed the school on lockdown and Cain, 67, who worked in school security for four decades before his retirement, stood helpless at the corner, wondering if his son, Khalif, who was inside one of the classrooms, would be all right.
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The Three Things Humans Will Always Do Better Than Robots
Dean Vijay Kumar of the School of Engineering and Applied Science comments on how flying robots are programmed to figure things out.
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Judge Rejects Request by Paul Smith’s College to Change Its Name
In the rarefied world of multimillion dollar gift-giving, Paul Smith’s College, named for a 19th-century hotelier and tucked in the forests of northern New York State, carried little cachet. So when Joan Weill, the wife of the Wall Street billionaire Sanford I. Weill, proposed a $20 million gift that would lift the struggling college’s fortunes, its officials saw national prestige on the horizon. Mrs. Weill’s only condition — one that experts say is becoming more common among major donors — was that the institution become Joan Weill-Paul Smith’s College.
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German President Calls for Stronger Trans-Atlantic Relations
German President Joachim Gauck’s remarks while at Penn about U.S.-German relations are highlighted.