11/15
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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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All-MOOC M.B.A.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has chosen an unusual partner for its online M.B.A. program: massive open online course provider Coursera. The program, known as iMBA, will deliver most of its course content through Specializations, Coursera’s term for course sequences. Students will be able to take those sequences in four different ways -- two that award credit and two that don’t.
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Behind Their Charms, Single-sex Colleges Struggle With Their Nature
The names of the two colleges -- Sweet Briar and Deep Springs -- are redolent of bucolic campuses. One is in rural Virginia, in the foothills near Lynchburg, and the other is in California's high desert ranch lands east of Bishop. But the names of the schools are now linked by something else: the struggles of the dwindling number of single-sex colleges to survive or possibly become co-ed.
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Penn Study Questions Lariat Device to Prevent Stroke in Heart Patients
Jay Giri of the Perelman School of Medicine says, “The Lariat is an absolutely ingenious piece of engineering… However, ingenuity doesn’t guarantee its safety and efficacy.”
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Restored Sight Fades After Gene Therapy
Samuel Jacobson and Jean Bennett of the Perelman School of Medicine are quoted about the impact of gene therapy on sight.
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Video: Rates & Home Affordability
Susan Wachter of the Wharton School talks about the current housing market.
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Philadelphia-area Universities Line Up Diverse Group of Commencement Speakers
The 2015 commencement speaker, U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power, is mentioned.
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Video: Your Health Info May Be Bought and Sold Online
Timothy Libert of the Annenberg School for Communication is highlighted for studying health data privacy.
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Accepted to All Eight Ivies, Virginia Student Makes Her Decision: Harvard
In the end, Pooja Chandrashekar had to narrow down her choices. The wunderkind senior at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology got into 14 schools — including all eight Ivies — and was deciding between Stanford and Harvard. And on Friday she made her decision: Chandrashekar is bound for Cambridge, Mass. “After much deliberation, I’ve finally committed to Harvard,” Chandrashekar said.
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Bardolatry as Idolatry
On William Shakespeare’s birthday this year, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) issued a report, “The Unkindest Cut: Shakespeare in Exile in 2015,” which warned that “less than 8 percent of the nation’s top universities require English majors to take even a single course that focuses on Shakespeare.” Warnings about the decline of a traditional literary canon are familiar from conservative academic organizations such as
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Shades of Sensitivity
Scott Barry Kaufman of the School of Arts & Sciences writes about levels of sensitivity.