11/15
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Office Whiners: 5 Ways to Shut Them Up
Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School offers advice on how to deal with workplace complainers.
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What Off-Season?
At a recent panel discussion organized by the Big 12 Conference, a moderator asked four college athletes what they thought of a number of proposals to reform college athletics. Getting rid of late evening games? The athletes said they like playing during prime time. Realigning the conferences so that athletes don’t have to travel so far? The athletes said they enjoy traveling across the country.
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Focus on Protecting Elderly From Fraud and Fleecing
Jason Karlawish of the Perelman School of Medicine is highlighted for organizing a conference that focused on how to determine whether the elderly are capable of good decision-making and how to protect them from fraud and abuse.
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Campus Diversity, Often Seen as Key to Learning, Can Have an Educational Downside
Although diversity on college campuses is widely viewed as crucial for learning, negative experiences with students from other backgrounds may actually hurt undergraduates’ intellectual development, a new study suggests.
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Audio/Video: Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em…Cockroach Style?
Undergraduates Steve Rybicki, Ariana Schanzer, Stephanie Mark, Vahid Hoshmand, Vivek Menon, Brian Tong, doctoral candid
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3 Key Findings About College Admissions
If your vice president for enrollment looks haggard these days, maybe it’s because the percentage of accepted applicants who enroll keeps going down, complicating those all-important revenue projections. Or maybe she’s scrambling to attract more transfer students to the campus. The best strategy for recruiting foreign students? Everyone’s trying to figure that out, too.
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Lessons to Share
Sexual assault on college campuses is a national problem. No campus is immune. It is a challenge at public and private institutions, it plagues small colleges as well as universities with tens of thousands of students, it happens at highly selective colleges and institutions that cater to a local demographic. It also happens at our federal service academies (FSAs).
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Rise of the Drones
C. Brian Rose of the Penn Museum is quoted about codirecting a site at Gordion where drones are used to get aerial renderings of the landscape for archaeologists.
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Blue Bell Knew About Listeria Issues, F.D.A. Says
Neil Fishman of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on listeria issues.
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Under Pressure, Universities Take a Renewed Shot at Improving Lab Safety
Motivated by the fear of possible new federal regulations, university leaders gathered in Washington on Wednesday as part of a national study commission seeking strategies to improve lab-safety conditions.