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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Students aren’t always comfortable talking about race, especially at the beginning of the semester in a classroom led by a professor they don’t know yet.
Penn In the News
An excerpt from Originals by Adam Grant of the Wharton School expresses concern about why grading on a curve is problematic.
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Steve Viscelli of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on dwindling truck driver hires and says, “If e-commerce goes up a lot and the introduction of autonomous vehicles is slow and the industry does not shift to millennials, we could see actual shortages 10 years out.”
Penn In the News
Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education writes about free speech and not resorting to violence because of a difference in opinion.
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Scott Halpern of the Perelman School of Medicine shares his thoughts on organ transplant research and says, “This is a sufficiently niche area of research that there are compelling arguments for establishing donor-intervention research IRBs that could regulate all donor-intervention trials around the country.”
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Howard Stevenson of the Graduate School of Education offers advice about how to speak to children about hate groups and racially motivated violence in the wake of the events in Charlottesville, Va.
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Peter Conti-Brown of the Wharton School commends Wells Fargo’s appointment of Elizabeth Duke, as she becomes the first female chairman of a top U.S. bank.
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Kimberly Burham of the Wharton School comments on an analysis conducted on the potential impact of cutting immigration to the GDP.
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Jack Ende of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about the American College of Physicians taking a stance on hate crimes.
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Paul Heiney and postdoctoral student Jing Cai of the School of Arts & Sciences comment on researching squid lenses and how they can influence the creation of lenses to improve human vision.