At Princeton, Women Make Strides at Clubs That Once Barred Them The New York Times At Princeton, Women Make Strides at Clubs That Once Barred Them Princeton University’s 11 eating clubs are where most of its upperclassmen go for dinner every night, as the name implies.
Apple’s Plan for World Domination Is a Waiting Game USA Today Apple’s Plan for World Domination Is a Waiting Game Jonah Berger of the Wharton School says, “Out intuition is that the first mover is the winner in a product category … but whoever is second to market is usually the winner, learning from the mistakes of others.”
First, Do No Harm Inside Higher Ed First, Do No Harm More than a dozen student affairs associations, nonprofit organizations and victims' advocate groups are releasing an open letter today urging state legislators to reconsider pending bills in several states that the letter says would interfere with colleges' efforts to prevent campus sexual assault.
Audio: Modified Immune Cells Show Promise in Treating Brain Cancer, Penn Scientists Find Newsworks (WHYY-FM) Audio: Modified Immune Cells Show Promise in Treating Brain Cancer, Penn Scientists Find Marcela Maus of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on a study about a personalized immune therapy that redirects T cells to find and destroy a type of brain tumor.
Evidence Growing for Pictorial Warnings on Cigarettes TheHill.com 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.
Higher Ed News: Award-winning Team at Penn Works to Make Fracking Safer Keystone Edge 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.
Audio: Gamechanger: Jerome Allen CBS Philadelphia Audio: Gamechanger: Jerome Allen Jerome Allen, head coach of men’s basketball and an alum, is profiled.
Who Is Being Political? Inside Higher Ed 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.
Its Future in Doubt, South Carolina State Ponders Its Disastrous Recent Past Chronicle of Higher Education 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.
A Self-fulfilling Prophecy Inside Higher Ed 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.