11/15
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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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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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Why Eggs and Other Cholesterol-laden Foods Pose Little or No Health Risk
Dan Rader of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on how cholesterol is produced in your blood.
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A College Coach Goes to the Mat for a Son Accused of Sexual Assault
College wrestling coaches typically do not send young men the message that they’re at risk of becoming helpless victims. But C.D. Mock, the head wrestling coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has mounted a very public campaign to do just that.
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Nagging Patients Aren’t to Blame for Overtesting in Medicine
Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School comments on leading a study about cancer patients requesting medical treatment.
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Study: College Students’ Transfer Plans Could Affect Obama Ratings
About 30 percent of freshmen at the least selective colleges plan to transfer to another institution before completing their degree, according to the
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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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Meet the New, Self-Appointed MOOC Accreditors: Google and Instagram
A big question for MOOCs, the free online courses that hundreds of colleges now offer, is whether employers will take them seriously as credentials. But some of the biggest MOOC producers may have figured out how to jump-start employer buy-in: Get big-name companies to help design them.