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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Fighting to Keep Leaders Who Are Academics
Faculty members at the University of Wisconsin at Madison want to kill a state budget proposal that would ban the university system’s Board of Regents from requiring the system president and campus chancellors and vice chancellors be academics themselves.
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Penn Study Finds Deadly C. diff Infections Are On the Rise
James Lewis of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on leading a study that revealed the rise of a common intestinal infection.
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Dispute Over British Baby’s Fate Draws In Pope and U.S. President
Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about the global debate of the medical treatment of Charlie Gard, an infant born with a rare genetic disease.
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Video: Opening Up the World of Ukiyo-e Julie Nelson Davis
Julie Nelson Davis of the School of Arts & Sciences is interviewed about her expertise on Ukiyo-e, a genre of Japanese art.
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Creeping (and Creepy) Authoritarianism: Trump Wants Your Voting Info
Dick Polman of the School of Arts and Sciences writes on the processes and implications of the new federal "Election Integrity Commission.”
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How U.S. Intelligence Created Games to Predict Policy Shocks, Coups and Wars, With Canadian Help
Philip Tetlock of the Wharton School and the School of Arts and Sciences is quoted on his research on how to more accurately forecast human behavior and events.
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A Professor ‘Who Looks Like Them’
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education is highlighted for creating the Pathways to the Professoriate program.
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Why Do Colleges Recruit Athletes Who Have Committed Sexual Assault?
In April, Indiana University adopted a policy barring the recruiting of any athlete who has either been convicted of a felony involving sexual violence or who has pleaded no contest to such a charge. There are some similar bans in college sports, but why don’t other colleges and universities, as well as the NCAA, have the same policy?
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Why Did a UCLA Instructor With a Popular Free-Speech Course Lose His Job?
According to communication-studies department leaders at the University of California at Los Angeles, the story of why Keith A. Fink lost his job isn’t an especially interesting one: He was a part-time lecturer, and his teaching wasn’t up to par.
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How Health-Insurer Debate Ground Christie's Trenton to a Halt
Scott E. Harrington of the Wharton School comments on the implications of new health care policies in New Jersey.