11/15
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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3 Essential Habits for Advising Entrepreneurs
Adam Grant of the Wharton School is cited for his book Give and Take and the “power of the ‘5 minute favor.’”
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You Are Here to Be Disturbed
Are we living through a plague of hypersensitivity? Most readers will be aware of campaigns to dampen hateful speech, to stop "microaggressions," and to get professors to supply students with "trigger warnings" — verbal trailers or coming attractions — when anticipating visual and verbal disturbances. It’s as if we need the equivalent of G, PG, PG-13, R, and X ratings for both texts and talk.
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Asking Students to Bare It All
Art instruction -- which has long featured nude models -- is not the same as instruction in other subjects. But a complaint from the parent of a student at the University of California at San Diego has drawn attention to the pedagogy behind a course in which all students (and the professor) are naked for a class session.
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When Difficulty Balancing the Checkbook Is a Tip-off of More to Come
Jason Karlawish of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on how difficulty making financial decisions might indicate cognitive aging or a neurodegenerative disease.
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Mentors Help Patients With Rehab and Offer Insider Tips Along the Way
Judith Long of the Perelman School of Medicine is cited for studying the effect of peer mentorship of veterans who are on blood sugar control.
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Cuomo, Taking Aim at Campus Sexual Assaults, Calls for a Stricter Law
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, appearing at a Manhattan college with Representative Nancy Pelosi, on Monday called for the passage of “the toughest law in the nation” on campus sexual assault, a message aimed at state lawmakers who have expressed some reservations about his proposals. Mr.
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Video: The Future of Remote Work Is Telerobotics
Undergraduate students, including Peter Zachares of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, are featured for creating DORA, a robot that mimics movements and sends visual information through a virtual reality headset.
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How Philly Doctors Are Saving the World
Trish Henwood, Carl June, Bruce Levine, Pablo Tebas, Philip Johnson,
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Irish Woman Murdered at Duffy’s Cut in 1832 Begins Journal Home
Janet Monge of the Museum comments on a person recovered from Duffy’s Cut by a physical anthropologist.
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Drugmaker and University Ally to Seek Cure for AIDS
Penn is mentioned for partnering with Novartis to build a research center to work on genetically altering a patient’s immune cells to battle cancer.