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  • We Need to Unlock the Brain’s Secrets – Ethically
    Scientific American

    We Need to Unlock the Brain’s Secrets – Ethically

    President Amy Gutmann, Presidential Bioethics Commission chair, writes about three key areas of ethical concern in neuroscience research and application.


    Mar 26, 2015

    Stanford Probes ‘Troubling’ Increase in Cheating Allegations
    Bloomberg

    Stanford Probes ‘Troubling’ Increase in Cheating Allegations

    Stanford University is probing a “troubling” increase in academic dishonesty among students, made easier by their use of technology, Provost John Etchemendy said in a letter to faculty. As many as 20 percent of students in a large introductory course may have cheated, Etchemendy said, adding that the school’s Office of Community Standards received an “unusually high number” of such reports at the end of the winter term.

    Mar 26, 2015

    Five Penn Students Win $150,000 Each for Community Service Projects
    CBS Philadelphia

    Five Penn Students Win $150,000 Each for Community Service Projects

    Five seniors, Jodi FeinbergMatthew LisleShadrack FrimpongAdrian Lievano, and Katlyn Grasso, are highlighted as the inaugural winners of the President’s Engagement Priz

    Mar 26, 2015

    Video: How An Elite Women’s College Lost Its Base and Found Its Mission
    Chronicle of Higher Education

    Video: How An Elite Women’s College Lost Its Base and Found Its Mission

    Almost 30 years ago, Trinity College, in Washington, D.C., faced a crisis familiar to many small institutions today: It lost the ability to attract the predominantly well-to-do women it had traditionally enrolled. So the Roman Catholic women’s college adopted a risky strategy. It changed its base, focusing instead on serving primarily African-American and Latina women who face financial disadvantages.

    Mar 25, 2015

    A Three-question Test of Financial Literacy
    The Wall Street Journal

    A Three-question Test of Financial Literacy

    A three-question test on financial literacy collaboratively developed by Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School is cited.


    Mar 25, 2015

    Thousands Protest Plan to Oust University Chief in Mississippi
    The New York Times

    Thousands Protest Plan to Oust University Chief in Mississippi

    Raising handwritten signs and clutching scripts for protest chants, more than 2,500 people on Wednesday demonstrated at the University of Mississippi to resist last week’s unexpected decision to oust the school’s chancellor, Daniel W. Jones. In what officials here described as one of the largest protests in the university’s history, students, employees and other supporters of Dr.

    Mar 25, 2015

    About Time?
    Inside Higher Ed

    About Time?

    The speed and forcefulness with which David Boren, president of the University of Oklahoma, moved to punish members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon after they were caught singing a racist song this month earned the praise of many on campus and across the country, including President Obama. The following week, Boren drew similar praise for announcing that he would soon hire a vice president to oversee diversity and inclusion efforts on campus.

    Mar 25, 2015

    Penn Grads Win Chance to Change the World
    Philadelphia Inquirer

    Penn Grads Win Chance to Change the World

    Five undergraduate students are featured as the winners of the University of Pennsylvania’s President’s Engagement Prizes.


    Mar 25, 2015

    Cornell Provost: Private Donors Have Stepped Up to Save Medical Research
    The Washington Post

    Cornell Provost: Private Donors Have Stepped Up to Save Medical Research

    Sharp cuts in federal funding for medical research are having lasting impact, argues Laurie H. Glimcher, MD, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and Provost for Medical Affairs of Cornell University, including driving young researchers out of the field.

    Mar 25, 2015

    Need Financial Advice? Ask the Future You
    The New York Times

    Need Financial Advice? Ask the Future You

    Joseph Kable of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about how discounting can affect decisions including personal finances.


    Mar 25, 2015