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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Can Brain Games Change Behaviors Long Term?
Caryn Lerman of the Perelman School of Medicine and its Abramson Cancer Center, Leah Bernardo, also of Medicine, and Joseph Kable of the School of Arts & Sciences are highlighted for researching how Lumosity affects brain activity.
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Does Harvard Need Your Money?
It didn’t take long for the criticisms to begin rolling in after Harvard University announced a $400 million donation to its engineering college. The gift was proudly touted by the university as its largest-ever gift, and a significant step toward reaching the towering $6.5 billion fund-raising goal of its ongoing capital campaign. Yet for many others, the gift didn't make sense.
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Racist Chants, Allegations of Rape, Tasers, Branding, All the Awful Frat Behavior of 2015
It has been a rough year for fraternities. From racist chants to allegations of roofie-spiked punch, sexual assault, drug use and Taser assaults, it has sometimes felt like there are too many scandals in Greek life to keep up with. Not for Bloomberg: As the last of the commencements wind down, and students head home, they compiled an exhaustive graphic. Just this past semester, Bloomberg reported, 133 fraternity and sorority chapters were disciplined — whether shut down entirely, suspended, or otherwise punished — after allegations of bad behavior.
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What Does It Cost to Develop a Drug and Should We Really Care?
Mark Pauly of the Wharton School writes about the costs associated with developing a new drug.
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Wesleyan’s 3-Year Degree: How It’s Doing After 3 Years
Wesleyan University made a splash in
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Amid Fast Change, Group Seems Slow to Enhance Colleges’ Control of Online Courses
Last spring a group of university leaders announced a bold, new project intended to help colleges gain more control of their online course platforms, as they increasingly turned to providers like Coursera or edX. A year later some observers are wondering what the group has actually accomplished, and where the consortium is headed.
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Losing Hope in Wisconsin
With Wisconsin legislators poised to remove public university tenure from state statute, many faculty members were hopeful that a Board of Regents committee would respond forcefully Thursday. But the committee meeting ended with faculty leaders feeling that they had been let down.
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The Science of…Body Dysmorphic Disorder
David Sarwer of the Perelman School of Medicine says, “Individuals with features of body dysmorphic disorder have been described in the medical literature for well over 100 years, but it didn’t receive acceptance as a formal psychiatric disorder until about 30 years ago.”
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Arts and Sciences Deficits
Larry Singell saw the writing on the wall well before his college was hit with a possible $8 million deficit.
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How Growing Up in Poverty Rewires a Child’s Developing Brain
Brian Avants of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on the effects of poverty on the brain.