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11/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Undergraduates Steve Rybicki, Ariana Schanzer, Stephanie Mark, Vahid Hoshmand, Vivek Menon, Brian Tong, doctoral candid
Penn In the News
If your vice president for enrollment looks haggard these days, maybe it’s because the percentage of accepted applicants who enroll keeps going down, complicating those all-important revenue projections. Or maybe she’s scrambling to attract more transfer students to the campus. The best strategy for recruiting foreign students? Everyone’s trying to figure that out, too.
Penn In the News
Sexual assault on college campuses is a national problem. No campus is immune. It is a challenge at public and private institutions, it plagues small colleges as well as universities with tens of thousands of students, it happens at highly selective colleges and institutions that cater to a local demographic. It also happens at our federal service academies (FSAs).
Penn In the News
C. Brian Rose of the Penn Museum is quoted about codirecting a site at Gordion where drones are used to get aerial renderings of the landscape for archaeologists.
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Neil Fishman of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on listeria issues.
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Motivated by the fear of possible new federal regulations, university leaders gathered in Washington on Wednesday as part of a national study commission seeking strategies to improve lab-safety conditions.
Penn In the News
University of Rhode Island campus police will start carrying guns Friday, making it the final public university in the nation to arm its officers. The move to arm police came after a false alarm in 2013, when some students in a lecture hall thought they heard someone say they had a gun, setting off a panic on the university’s bucolic campus in South Kingstown.
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With new technologies come new ways to cheat. Yik Yak, the anonymous, location-based app that has been a hotbed of cyberbullying on college campuses, is also the newest tool for students seeking to cheat on exams. J. Scott Christianson, an assistant teaching professor in the department of management at the University of Missouri at Columbia, has been monitoring Yik Yak recently to see what students are talking about.
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Shaun Harper of the Graduate School of Education has been tapped for membership on the advisory board of the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, President Obama’s initiative to support young minority men.
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Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School pens an op-ed about the unnecessary use of emergency rooms.