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  • Don’t Compare Your Savings to That of Your Peers
    The Wall Street Journal

    Don’t Compare Your Savings to That of Your Peers

     

    Katy Milkman of the Wharton School is mentioned as a co-author of a research paper that shows the effects of peer pressure on retirement savings.

    Sep 20, 2015

    The Symposium Cautions Against Conflating Education With Job Training
    Chronicle of Higher Education

    The Symposium Cautions Against Conflating Education With Job Training

     

    About three minutes into her opening speech at a symposium here on Thursday about the value of the liberal arts, Sen. Susan Collins addressed an underlying theme of the gathering with a blunt statement: "The importance of the liberal arts to a free and democratic society was known to antiquity," said Ms. Collins, a Republican from Maine. "Why is it that we need to keep reminding ourselves — and, more to the point, the public — of its value?"

    Sep 18, 2015

    Dr. Carson, Dr. Paul, Meet Dr. Hippocrates
    Huffington Post

    Dr. Carson, Dr. Paul, Meet Dr. Hippocrates

     

    Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences critiques doctors who become politicians.

    Sep 18, 2015

    Let’s Bring Higher Education Out of the Middle Ages
    The Wall Street Journal

    Let’s Bring Higher Education Out of the Middle Ages

    At a time when the world desperately needs more expansive thinkers than ever before (and when higher education in the U.S. has never been more expensive), too many schools are churning out narrow specialists ill-equipped to deal with the vast complexity of today’s uber-global, rapidly changing reality.

    Sep 17, 2015

    Researchers Dig for Cause of Dog Diabetes
    HealthDay

    Researchers Dig for Cause of Dog Diabetes

     

    Rebecka Hess of the School of Veterinary Medicine and doctoral student Emily Shields of the Perelman School of Medicine are cited for researching dogs with diabetes.

    Sep 17, 2015

    Going Back to School
    Inside Higher Ed

    Going Back to School

    First-time graduate school enrollment was up 3.5 percent in 2014 from the year before, the biggest annual increase since 2009, according to a report out today from the Council of Graduate Schools. I was surprised that that number was as big as it was,” said Jeff Allum, assistant vice president for research and policy analysis for the council and co-author of its “Graduate Enrollment and Degrees: 2004 to 2014” study.

    Sep 17, 2015