11/15
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Video: Oculus Rift and Robotic Heads: A Match Made in Geek Heaven
Undergraduates John Nappo and Peter Zachares of the School of Engineering and Applied Science are quoted about developing DORA, Dextrous Observational Roving Automaton.
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Low-Income Students at Elite Colleges Speak of Facing Pressures and Alienation
Jasmine Miller, who grew up in Tennessee and graduated from Harvard in 2013, has some illustrative anecdotes to explain how low-income students at elite colleges get subtle and not-so-subtle reminders that they aren’t like their classmates.
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The Genius of ‘Want to Grab Coffee?’
Maurice Schweitzer of the Wharton School is cited for a collaborative study that revealed that asking advice appears to enhance perceptions of intelligence.
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Video: Dog Influenza
Deborah Silverstein of the School of Veterinary Medicine talks about dogs infected with the canine influenza virus.
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Seeking Tests for a Contested Brain Disease
Douglas Smith of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
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Some Jewish Activists Don’t Want Cornel West at UCLA Conference
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was a Jewish theologian and civil rights activist close to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Cornel West, the philosopher and African American history scholar who often speaks out on public issues, describes himself as an admirer of Heschel.
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The Making of a Higher-ed Agitator
For Michael M. Crow, president of Arizona State University, this is hallowed ground. It is the site of Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s low-slung winter home in the foothills of the McDowell Mountains. The residence’s slanted redwood beams and walls of native stone appear to be natural extensions of the desert landscape. Mr.
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Introducing GSOFT
Randall Kamien of the School of Arts & Sciences wrote about establishing a new sub-field of physics, soft matter, which includes materials ranging from toothpaste to liquid crystals.
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Shakespeare – Not to Be – As a Required Course at Top Colleges
Rebecca Bushnell and Michael Gamer of the School of Arts & Sciences comment on Shakespeare’s literature being offered in courses at Penn.
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Carnegie Mellon Students Invent Apps to Head Off Sexual Assaults
A freshman girl stumbles glassy-eyed at a crowded party, and a guy steps in, leading her upstairs to his room. Maybe a couple of people notice, and wonder: “Shouldn’t her friends, whoever they are, walk her home?” then turn back to their conversation. Soon, some students at Carnegie Mellon hope, bystanders will have an easy, anonymous way to ask her friends if everything is okay, and head off some bad situations.