11/15
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Audio: Ranked as Top HBCU, Spelman Sets High Bar for Students, Alums
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education comments on Spelman College producing student leaders.
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Melanoma Treatment May Not Always Require Extensive Lymph Node Removal
Lynn Schuchter of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on how melanoma can spread throughout the body via lymph nodes.
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In a Paradox, Study Finds That Long, Jargon-laden Abstracts Make for More Citations
Academics are often encouraged to write clearly and concisely, but that imperative may actually limit a paper’s impact on scholarship. A new study out of the University of Chicago has found that papers with longer, jargon-laden abstracts are more likely to be cited in other academic works than are brief, clear abstracts, which researchers are typically taught to write.
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Supreme Court Overturns Pa. Man's Facebook Threat Conviction
Kermit Roosevelt of the Law School comments on evolving cases around freedom of speech and the Internet.
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Scientists Work on Developing Less Addictive Painkiller From Yeast
Michael Ashburn of the Perelman School of Medicine says, “The average pain relief at best is 40 percent and [only] about one in three patients who receive opioids long term get long-term, significant clinically, meaningful benefit.”
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Social Science Produces Leaders
Politicians and plenty of parents throughout the world regularly urge students to think practically, and to focus on degrees in technology or business. And colleges and universities around the world are being pressured to focus on disciplines outside the liberal arts and sciences.
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Making Diversity Not the Work of One Office, but a Campuswide Priority
At the annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education, it’s not hard to get people thinking about diversity and inclusion: They already are. The challenge for the chief diversity officers, other administrators, professors, and students who met here last week lies back home — keeping those ideals on colleagues’ and classmates’ minds every day, not just when prompted by a complaint or a scandal.
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Your Fitness Tracker’s Stats – Explained
A study about the effectiveness of wearable fitness trackers on changing the user’s behavior from the Perelman School of Medicine is cited.
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Penn Link to Napoleon III Returns From France
Dean Denis Kinane of the School of Dental Medicine and Lynn Marsden-Atlass of Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery are quoted about an antique carriage owned by 19th-century dentist Thomas Evans that he used to help Napoleon III's wife flee riots in Paris.
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Group Seeks to Break ‘Two-Party Stranglehold’ on Presidential Debates
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center talks about including viable candidates from all political parties in presidential debates.