Donald Trump Is Summer’s Biggest TV Hit, and Ratings Gold for Cable News Los Angeles Times Donald Trump Is Summer’s Biggest TV Hit, and Ratings Gold for Cable News Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg School for Communication shares her thoughts on Donald Trump using the Trump Tower interior as a branding tool for his presidential candidacy.
What You Need to Know About Social Media Credit Scores Yahoo! Finance What You Need to Know About Social Media Credit Scores Pinar Yildrim and graduate student Yanhao Wei of the Wharton School are cited for co-authoring a paper on social network scoring.
College Students Are Now Smoking More Pot Than Cigarettes The Washington Post College Students Are Now Smoking More Pot Than Cigarettes
Federal Plan to Modernize Medical Trials’ Rules Would Be Boon to Universities Chronicle of Higher Education Federal Plan to Modernize Medical Trials’ Rules Would Be Boon to Universities After more than four years of work, the finish line appears to be in sight for a governmentwide process to modernize the rules governing human participation in medical trials. The results appear to offer substantial benefits for many university researchers. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a 519-page set of regulations on Wednesday, the result of work with 15 other federal departments and agencies dating to 2011. The document represents the first comprehensive overhaul of the regulations in three decades.
Rutgers: 20 Percent of Undergraduate Women Had Unwanted Sexual Contact The Washington Post Rutgers: 20 Percent of Undergraduate Women Had Unwanted Sexual Contact Twenty percent of undergraduate women who answered a survey last fall at Rutgers University said they experienced unwanted sexual contact in their time as students, the New Jersey state school reported Wednesday. The finding, together with other recent research, reinforces growing evidence of the breadth of the problem of college sexual assault. In a Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll published in June, 1 in 5 young women who had attended a residential college in the past four years reported being sexually assaulted.
Leukemia Immune Therapy Works Long-term in Patients, Study Finds NBC News Leukemia Immune Therapy Works Long-term in Patients, Study Finds Carl June of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Penn Team Finds a Source for Chemo Nausea in the Brain Philadelphia Inquirer Penn Team Finds a Source for Chemo Nausea in the Brain Bart De Jonghe of the School of Nursing is highlighted for researching the role the brain plays in nausea that follows chemotherapy treatment with cisplatin.
Big Leaps for Parental Leave, If Workers Actually Take It The New York Times Big Leaps for Parental Leave, If Workers Actually Take It Stewart Friedman of the Wharton School comments on major shifts in the workplace’s work/life balance due to new policies on parental leave.
Bryn Mawr Names Residence Hall After First African-American Alum Philadelphia Inquirer Bryn Mawr Names Residence Hall After First African-American Alum Bryn Mawr College on Monday named a new residence hall that also will serve as its Black Cultural Center after Enid Cook, the college’s first African-American alumna. Cook, a 1931 graduate who majored in chemistry and biology, was denied on-campus housing and lived off campus with a local family. After earning her doctorate from the University of Chicago, she became a lecturer in that school’s department of medicine and later served as the chief of the public health laboratory and a professor of microbiology at the University of Panama. She died in 1989.