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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Philip Tetlock of the Wharton School suggests that businesses track internal and external forecasts during times of uncertainty.
Penn In the News
The U.S. Department of Education introduced a new rule on June 13 that could have an outsize negative impact on historically black colleges and universities. And no one noticed. As the former president of Bennett College -- the nation’s oldest historically black college for women -- I have been honored to play a role in increasing the immense opportunities HBCUs have provided to black students and other students of color over the past 150 years.
Penn In the News
Richard Berk of the School of Arts & Sciences is highlighted for leading the effort to develop an algorithm for pretrial decisions.
Penn In the News
Jill Fisch of the Law School comments on and investigation is opened by the Securities & Exchange Commission.
Penn In the News
Monica Harmon and Kathleen Brown of the School of Nursing are mentioned for assisting juvenile inmates.
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Dan Hopkins of the School of Arts & Sciences shares his thoughts on Bernie Sanders’ influence on the future of the Democratic Party.
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Clay Shirky stares into the camera in front of him as he reaches the core of his argument. “The social network is the human connection,” the associate professor of journalism at New York University and writer of all things internet says, turning to highlight an illustration on a digital blackboard of large and small clusters of connected users on social media.
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In April 2016, following the widely publicized pepper-spraying of protesters by campus police, the Chancellor of University of California Davis, Linda Katehi, was criticized for spending $175,000 on outside consultants for Internet search optimization in order to diminish online references to the incident so the public would see a more favorable image of UC-Davis. Later that month, Chancellor Katehi was placed on paid administrative leave amid allegations of nepotism, inappropriate involvement on corporate boards, and gross financial excess.
Penn In the News
Guobin Yang of the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about the evolution of the online environment in China.
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The touch tours offered for visually-impaired visitors at the Penn Museum are highlighted. Gene Magee of the Museum speaks about things he has learned from guiding the tours.