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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Audio: How Michele Bachmann Inspired Factcheck.org to Debunk Lies About Science
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center discusses SciCheck.
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At Princeton, Women Make Strides at Clubs That Once Barred Them
Princeton University’s 11 eating clubs are where most of its upperclassmen go for dinner every night, as the name implies.
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Apple’s Plan for World Domination Is a Waiting Game
Jonah Berger of the Wharton School says, “Out intuition is that the first mover is the winner in a product category … but whoever is second to market is usually the winner, learning from the mistakes of others.”
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First, Do No Harm
More than a dozen student affairs associations, nonprofit organizations and victims' advocate groups are releasing an open letter today urging state legislators to reconsider pending bills in several states that the letter says would interfere with colleges' efforts to prevent campus sexual assault.
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Audio: Modified Immune Cells Show Promise in Treating Brain Cancer, Penn Scientists Find
Marcela Maus of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on a study about a personalized immune therapy that redirects T cells to find and destroy a type of brain tumor.
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Evidence Growing for Pictorial Warnings on Cigarettes
Dan Romer of the Annenberg Public Policy Center contributes his thoughts on graphic warning labels on cigarette packaging.
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Higher Ed News: Award-winning Team at Penn Works to Make Fracking Safer
Undergraduate students Ashwin Amurthur and Teddy Guenin are profiled as winners of the Y Prize.
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Audio: Gamechanger: Jerome Allen
Jerome Allen, head coach of men’s basketball and an alum, is profiled.
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Who Is Being Political?
There is wide agreement in North Carolina that Gene Nichol is an articulate and forceful advocate for the impoverished of his state, unafraid to criticize political leaders who in his opinion aren't doing enough about poverty. Nichol does so from an academic perch. He is a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and leads the university's Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity.
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Its Future in Doubt, South Carolina State Ponders Its Disastrous Recent Past
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education is quoted about the financial troubles of South Carolina State University.