11/15
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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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.
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A Self-fulfilling Prophecy
In an endless cycle of perpetuating stereotypes, college athletes care a great deal about academics, a recent paper suggests, but some purposefully underperform academically in a misguided attempt to fit in with their teammates.
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A Bid for Guns on Campuses to Deter Rape
As gun rights advocates push to legalize firearms on college campuses, an argument is taking shape: Arming female students will help reduce sexual assaults. Support for so-called campus carry laws had been hard to muster despite efforts by proponents to argue that armed students and faculty members could prevent mass shootings like the one at Virginia Tech in 2007.
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Molecule Shows Ability to Block AIDS Virus
Philip Johnson of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about a new molecule that can block infection with the virus that causes AIDS.
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College, Poetry and Purpose
Anne Hall of the School of Arts & Sciences is referenced.
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Canadian Woman Picked to Head La Salle University
On a visit to Philadelphia in November, Colleen Hanycz did what most visitors do when in our midst: She ate her first cheesesteak. The Canadian native isn't sure which locale she consumed said sandwich, only remembering that the eatery was inside the Reading Terminal Market and featured a "Best of" sign. The sandwich "alone is reason to move to Philadelphia," Hanycz said yesterday.