11/5
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Suicide Clusters
It’s Mardi Gras week in New Orleans, and students at Tulane University are busy prepping for the weekend’s celebrations. But for some students, getting into the party spirit this year is proving difficult. "Students are trying to stay positive, and of course many of them are excited for Mardi Gras weekend,” Dusty Porter, Tulane’s vice president of student affairs, said.
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Game Theory Calls Cooperation Into Question
Joshua Plotkin of the School of Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Science is featured for applying the “prisoner’s dilemma” to evolving populations.
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Disputed Admissions at University of Texas
A “select handful” of University of Texas applicants are approved each year at the direction of the school president over the objections of the admissions office, a longtime practice that has grown in recent years,
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Specializations, Specialized
Massive open online course providers such as Coursera have long pointed to the benefits of the data collected by the platforms, saying it will help colleges and universities understand how students learn online.
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Audio: When Science Meets Politics
David Levitan of the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s SciCheck is featured.
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Private Colleges Scrambling to Comply With New Child Abuse Protection Law
Should a 17-year-old college freshman be considered a child? Pennsylvania says yes, and that has some of the state’s colleges and universities scrambling to figure out how to comply with a new child abuse protection law. The law, Act 153, requires more extensive child abuse background checks for employees and volunteers who have “routine interaction” with children, including a 17-year-old freshman.
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St. Mary’s College of Md. Facing Federal Scrutiny for Handling of Sexual Violence Reports
The federal government disclosed Wednesday that it has opened an investigation of how St. Mary’s College of Maryland handles sexual violence reports.
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Dogs in Winter Coats: Cute, but Unnecessary?
Reid Groman of the School of Veterinary Medicine comments on dressing pets for cold weather.
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Audio: All About Dog Shows and Show Dogs
James Serpell of the School of Veterinary Medicine discusses the history of dog shows and the concerns of overbreeding.
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College Sexual Assault Prevention Has Unlikely Model: U.S. Service Academies
Colleges scrambling to develop lessons in sexual-assault prevention could glean ideas from what might be considered an unlikely source: the nation’s military service academies. Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy and cadets at the U.S. Military Academy and U.S.