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Introducing GSOFT
Randall Kamien of the School of Arts & Sciences wrote about establishing a new sub-field of physics, soft matter, which includes materials ranging from toothpaste to liquid crystals.
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Hot Sauce Is Main Course at New York Showcase
Paul Rozin of the School of Arts & Sciences says, “People come to like a wide variety of innately negative experiences: the burn of chili pepper in the mouth, the bitterness of coffee, the fear from riding on a roller coasters.”
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Video: Oculus Rift and Robotic Heads: A Match Made in Geek Heaven
Undergraduates John Nappo and Peter Zachares of the School of Engineering and Applied Science are quoted about developing DORA, Dextrous Observational Roving Automaton.
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Low-Income Students at Elite Colleges Speak of Facing Pressures and Alienation
Jasmine Miller, who grew up in Tennessee and graduated from Harvard in 2013, has some illustrative anecdotes to explain how low-income students at elite colleges get subtle and not-so-subtle reminders that they aren’t like their classmates.
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Accused of Rape, a Student Sues Columbia Over Bias
A Columbia University student who was accused of rape by a fellow student, who then targeted him in a very public campus action, filed a federal discrimination lawsuit on Thursday against the school; its president, Lee C. Bollinger; and one of its professors.
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8 Courses a Year for Every Professor? N.C. Lawmakers Ponder the Possibility
A bill introduced late last month in the North Carolina General Assembly has set faculties across the state abuzz with a bold suggestion: Require all professors in the University of North Carolina system to teach at least eight courses each academic year. Senate Bill 593 — titled "Improve Professor Quality/UNC System" — would reduce the salary of any professor who failed to hit that annual mark. Sen.
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Video: How to Make Better School Lunches
Mitesh Patel of the Perelman School of Medicine encourages healthy school lunches for students and says, “Adopting and maintaining … healthier habits is challenging, and new strategies are needed.”
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Shakespeare – Not to Be – As a Required Course at Top Colleges
Rebecca Bushnell and Michael Gamer of the School of Arts & Sciences comment on Shakespeare’s literature being offered in courses at Penn.
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Carnegie Mellon Students Invent Apps to Head Off Sexual Assaults
A freshman girl stumbles glassy-eyed at a crowded party, and a guy steps in, leading her upstairs to his room. Maybe a couple of people notice, and wonder: “Shouldn’t her friends, whoever they are, walk her home?” then turn back to their conversation. Soon, some students at Carnegie Mellon hope, bystanders will have an easy, anonymous way to ask her friends if everything is okay, and head off some bad situations.
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Iowa Legislator Wants to Give Students the Chance to Fire Underwhelming Faculty
A bill circulating in the Iowa State Senate offers a novel (and cutthroat) way to hold professors accountable: putting their fates into students’ hands, Survivor-style. Every year the professor most disliked by students would be voted off the campus. The bill, introduced by Sen.