11/15
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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Demand for Travel Nurses Hits a 20-year High
Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing said, “Our study showed these nurses could be lifesavers. Hiring temporary nurses can alleviate shortages that could produce higher patient mortality.”
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What to Learn in College to Stay One Step Ahead of Computers
Most people complete the majority of their formal education by their early 20s and expect to draw on it for the better part of a century. But a computer can learn in seconds most of the factual information that people get in high school and college, and there will be a great many generations of new computers and robots, improving at an exponential rate, before one long human lifetime has passed.
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The Worldwide Web
Devesh Kapur of the School of Arts & Sciences discusses the Center for the Advanced Study of India’s research on making India more of an asset internationally.
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2 Rivals in College-application Industry Chart New Courses
Just as applying to college is a rite of passage for millions of students each year, delivering all those applications to campuses is a big business. Now, as one admissions cycle gives way to another, the industry’s two most-prominent operators are poised to move in new directions.
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What To Do When a Crowdfunded Product Hits a Delay
Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School is cited for researching the impact of crowdfunding projects.
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Audio: Why the CPI Doesn’t Figure in the Fed’s Calculations
Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School is cited in this article on last month’s rise in the Consumer Price Index.
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Unsealing Police Records
Sworn police departments at private colleges in Ohio are public entities and subject to state open-records laws, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday, saying that a college being a “private institution does not preclude its police department from being a public office.” The ruling came a day after the Texas House of Representatives passed a bill requiring private institutions’ police departments to release some records, and one mon
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To Feed More, Food Pantries Learn From Supermarkets
Katherina Rosqueta of the School of Social Policy & Practice’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy comments on how cash donations are more helpful than food donations.
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‘We Need to Take a Look at the Data’: How 2 President Grad Students Upended a Blockbuster Study
This week David Broockman received his doctoral degree. He also helped persuade one of the most respected political scientists in the country to ask a prestigious academic journal to retract one of its most buzzed-about studies from last year.
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Video: ISIS Sells Relics on Black Market to Fund Attacks
Katharyn Hanson of the Museum’s Penn Cultural Heritage Center talks about ISIS’ threat to the ancient city of Palmyra and ways to protect its ruins.