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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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2015’s Best & Worst Cities to Start a Career
Barbara Hewitt of Career Services answers questions about choosing the best city in which to begin a career.
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Recycled Drinking Water: Getting Past the Yuck Factor
Paul Rozin of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on Americans who refuse to try recycled water.
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Why the New York Fed Should Not Be Reined In
David Zaring of the Wharton School writes about the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s place on the Federal Open Market Committee.
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Berkeley to Stop Adding Lecture Videos to YouTube, Citing Budget Cuts
Since well before MOOCs emerged, the University of California at Berkeley has been giving away recordings of its lectures on YouTube and iTunesU. In fact, Berkeley has become one of the most-generous distributors of free lectures on the web, adding some 4,500 hours of video per year. But that web channel, webcast.berkeley.edu, will soon stop adding fresh content.
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PSU Board Adds Women, But Lacks Racial Diversity
Pennsylvania State University’s board of trustees will add four new female board members, increasing its gender diversity, which several female members had raised as an issue. But the way things stand now, come July, the state’s flagship university will have no African American trustees.
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Office Whiners: 5 Ways to Shut Them Up
Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School offers advice on how to deal with workplace complainers.
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Under Pressure, Universities Take a Renewed Shot at Improving Lab Safety
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.
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University of Rhode Island Police to Carry Guns, Final Public University to Do So
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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Focus on Protecting Elderly From Fraud and Fleecing
Jason Karlawish of the Perelman School of Medicine is highlighted for organizing a conference that focused on how to determine whether the elderly are capable of good decision-making and how to protect them from fraud and abuse.
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Campus Diversity, Often Seen as Key to Learning, Can Have an Educational Downside
Although diversity on college campuses is widely viewed as crucial for learning, negative experiences with students from other backgrounds may actually hurt undergraduates’ intellectual development, a new study suggests.