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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Confessions of a Fixer
Fifteen miles from his home, tucked in a corner of a 10-by-10 storage unit, under an antique table, is a gray filing cabinet. Locked inside he keeps the test answers for more than a dozen online courses. Among his files is a pink steno pad of names, covering the front and back of 80 pages, that includes some of the biggest stars in college sports.
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An Inside Look at Financial Aid Offers a Private Franklin & Marshall College
Here are nine examples of how Franklin & Marshall College sized up the finances of students admitted to the class of 2018. F&M’s full charge for tuition, fees, room and board is $60,799. There are also expenses for books, supplies and transportation. The private college in Lancaster, Pa., pledges to meet full financial need. Students awarded aid are expected to take out some loans.
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Colleges Often Give Discounts to the rich. But here’s one that gave up on ‘merit aid.’
The open secret of higher education is that private colleges competing for students often slash prices for families wealthy enough to pay full tuition. Some dangle “merit aid” to lure academic stars. Others use discounts to ensure that they enroll enough affluent students to meet their revenue targets.
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Audio: Brainy or Brawny? For Ants, It Comes Down to More Than DNA
Daniel Simola, Roberto Bonasio and Shelley Berger of the Perelman School of Medicine are highlighted for research in ant epigenetics.
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FAQ: Best Colleges Rankings vs. Obama’s College Rating Framework
The U.S. Department of Education has released a framework that describes how the administration will execute its new college rating system, first proposed in August 2013.
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Make the MOOC Work for You
Robert Ghrist of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Arts & Sciences is featured for teaching a MOOC on calculus.
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Trump is staking out his own universe of ‘alternative facts’
Cristina Bicchieri of the School of Arts & Sciences offered some theories about President Trump’s continued appeal to his supporters. Research has shown that political conservatism is correlated to an intolerance for uncertainty, which supports “the general notion that conservative voters would enjoy Trump’s simple and ‘certain’ declarations about the world,” she said.
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Penn surgeons connected a pig liver to the body of a deceased person, showing it could work for living patients
Abraham Shaked of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on a liver that came from a pig that was genetically modified so it would not provoke the human immune system.
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Does health care law protect emergency abortion?
Allison Hoffman of Penn Carey Law says that the federal emergency-care law trumps state law, but notes that it’s difficult to predict the outcome when such a case reaches the Supreme Court.
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More Men, Younger Americans Having Joint Replacement Surgery
Matthew Sloan of the Perelman School of Medicine suggested that the decline in age for joint-replacement surgeries may be tied to “increasing obesity or increased access to care in a generation that desires to maintain an active lifestyle into their retirement years.”