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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Richard Berk of the School of Arts & Sciences is profiled for his criminology research.
Penn In the News
Penn and Penn Medicine are included in a list of partners working with Green City.
Penn In the News
Hundreds of people are expected to attend a campus vigil Monday for Nicolas Leslie, a 20-year-old student at the University of California at Berkeley, who was killed in the terrorist attack on Nice, France, last week. Leslie was one of 84 people who died when a man drove a truck into a crowd of people in the French Riviera who had been watching fireworks. The man then opened fire on the crowd. Another 200 people were injured, including three Berkeley students.
Penn In the News
The number of Saudi Arabian students enrolled at American universities has skyrocketed since the launch of a massive Saudi government scholarship program in 2005, increasing more than 17-fold. But after more than a decade of growth, many universities with sizable Saudi populations are anticipating significant declines in new Saudi enrollments as the government has retooled the scholarship program. Steep drops in enrollments at the English language level, the initial landing point for most Saudi students coming to U.S. universities, signal further declines ahead.
Penn In the News
Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences is mentioned for writing about vetting the health of presidential candidates.
Penn In the News
Perhaps concerned that Penn State's status as a national monument to sports-inspired mass delusion was not completely secure, more than 200 former football players recently petitioned university officials to reerect a bronze likeness of tarnished coaching legend Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium, which was removed four years ago as a sexual-abuse scandal shook State College.
Penn In the News
Joseph Farrell of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on classics professors regarding themselves as language teachers.
Penn In the News
When Paul Katz, a fourth-year graduate student at Columbia University, is researching primary texts in the library, he considers himself a student. But when he is grading undergraduate papers or lecturing to students, he sees himself as an employee who should have the right to join a union. The National Labor Relations Board is expected to decide on his status this summer in a ruling that could pave the way for graduate students at private schools across the country to unionize.
Penn In the News
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Penn In the News
Vassar College economics student Ian Vasily cuts an unusual figure walking through campus in a hat bearing Donald Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.” Many students at the upstate New York school ask: “ ‘Are you actually supporting him?’ ” Mr. Vasily said, “ ‘Or is this ironic?’ ”At liberal-arts colleges in the Northeast and on many campuses nationwide, where left-wing activism often flourishes, there is little love lost between the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and student bodies.