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6/14
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Duke University canceled plans Thursday to begin a weekly Muslim call to prayer from the campus chapel this week, an initiative that had set off debate on social media. A school spokesman and a Duke Muslim leader said that a serious and credible security threat played a role in the decision.
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Jason Karlawish and Steven Arnold of the Perelman School of Medicine discuss researching the risks of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
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Here’s a downside to our cultural obsession with genius: It might be a reason for the gender gap in certain academic fields. New research has found that women tend to be underrepresented in disciplines whose practitioners think innate talent or "brilliance" is required to succeed.
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Jerry Jacobs of the School of Arts & Sciences says, “Women tend to think they have to be the next Einstein before they become a physicist.”
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Ohio's Miami University—Oxford took top honors as the most efficient school among National Universities and Michigan's Hope College was most efficient among
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Recent and upcoming changes to National Collegiate Athletic Association rules -- including a new pilot program that will provide travel expenses to the families of basketball players who play in national championship games -- are rife with “serious Title IX complications,” a panel of gender equity experts said here Wednesday. “We’re seeing a sea change in college athletics and people are scrambling,” Erin Buzuvis,
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The leaders of Washington University in St. Louis have decided that it has a distinction they no longer want: the nation’s least economically diverse top college. Only 6 percent of undergraduates at Wash.
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Marybeth Gasman and doctoral student Andrés Castro Samayoa of the Graduate School of Education contribute their thoughts on minority-serving institutions and President Obama’s free community college proposal.
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Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education talks about how President Obama’s free community college proposal would not have a negative effect on historically black colleges and universities but would create some changes.
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Patricia Rose of Career Services talks about STEM graduates and professions.