11/15
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Named Next President of N.Y.U., Oxford’s Leader Inherits Challenges From John Sexton
New York University, which has become known for its global aspirations as much as its enviable home in Greenwich Village, named the head of one of the world’s most prestigious universities as its 16th president on Wednesday. When the new president, Andrew Hamilton, leaves his post at Oxford University to join N.Y.U. in January, he will be walking into a set of complex challenges. He will be leading a university with aggressive expansion plans, both internationally and in New York, where those plans are tied up in a court battle.
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After Racist E-mail, U-Md. President Says: We Fight Speech
The president of the University of Maryland reached out Tuesday to the campus community – horrified by an offensive e-mail written by a student – and said he would meet with student leaders after spring break to ta
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What Your Tweets Say About You
Graduate student Johannes Eichstaedt of the School of Arts & Sciences is mentioned for analyzing tweets to help answer the question, “Could those profiles help determine which countries were likely to have more deaths from heart disease?”
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Video: New Thinking in Sino-U.S. Relations
Dean Geoffrey Garrett of the Wharton School weighs in on the latest developments in Sino-American economic relations.
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House Republicans Would Slow Spending on Pell Grants to Help Balance Budget
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled a budget blueprint on Tuesday that would slow spending on Pell Grants as part of an effort to balance the federal budget.
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Russian Punk Activists Pussy Riot Speak at Penn
Kevin Platt of the School of Arts & Sciences is mentioned for moderating an event featuring Russian punk-political activist duo Pussy Riot. William Burke-White of the Law School is also mentioned as the director of the Perry World House that is set to officially open in January.
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Civil Rights Complaints to U.S. Department of Education Reach a Record High
Straining under a record number of civil rights complaints, the U.S. Department of Education wants to hire 200 more investigators to expand its civil rights division by 30 percent. Attorneys and investigators in the civil rights office have seen their workloads double since 2007, and the number of unresolved cases mushroom, as complaints have poured in from around the country about students from kindergarten through college facing discrimination on the basis of race, sex and disabilities.
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Video: Concerns Over the Fed
Susan Wachter of the Wharton School joins a discussion about the housing market.
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‘Cheated’
For 20 years, some employees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill knowingly steered about 1,500 athletes toward no-show courses that never met and were not taught by any faculty members, and in which the only work required was a single research paper that received a high grade no matter the content. After years of investigations, the scope of the scandal was finally detailed in a report by Kenneth Wainstein, a former official with the U.S.
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Resource Guide: Penn Researchers Use Body’s Immune System to Target Leukemia
Carl June of the Perelman School of Medicine is highlighted for leading research therapy that transforms the body’s immune system, using a deactivated HIV virus, to identify and kill leukemia cells.