11/15
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Graduation Day: At 80, Penn Grad Enjoys Commencement She’d Missed Decades Earlier
Merle Zucker, 80 years old, is featured for participating in commencement as a representative of her original Class of1956.
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Audio: Penn’s School of Medicine – Nation’s Oldest – Turns 250
Gail Morrison of the Perelman School of Medicine and Mark Frazier Lloyd of University Archives talk about the school’s 250th anniversary.
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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.
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Widening Wealth Gap
When Harvard University’s endowment fell by more than $10 billion during the 2008 financial crisis, it was a blow to the institution. But a lot of college presidents across the country considered the loss -- and the remaining $26 billion in Harvard’s endowment -- and thought that perhaps there were worse problems to have. Harvard’s endowment has since rebounded.
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What You Didn’t Know About that Mad Men Encounter Group
Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences writes about the characteristics of an encounter group that was replicated in an episode of the television show, “Mad Men.”
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Letterman Helped Woman Grieve After Her Mother’s Death
Jamie-Lee Josselyn of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, shares how the “Late Show with David Letterman” helped her cope with the death of her mother at a young age.
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It’s Bad Business Not to Donate to Nepal
Michael Useem of the Wharton School and doctoral student Luis Ballesteros write about businesses donating to Nepalese earthquake survivors.
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Severe Mental Illness Found to Drop in Young, Defying Perceptions
Steven Marcus of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Social Policy & Practice is cited for a collaborative study about mental illness in children.
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How Jettisoning Pricey Money Managers Might Ease City Pension Headaches
Donald Keim of the Wharton School is quoted about co-authoring a paper titled, “Passive Investors, Not Passive Owners.”