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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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To listen to many politicians, one would think talented science students are abandoning laboratories to study the humanities. In fact, it is the humanities that are losing undergraduate majors, and a new analysis from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences documents the trend.
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David Hewitt of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about restoring parks in Philadelphia.
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Collaborative research about the impact of temporary summer jobs for young people living in poor neighborhoods conducted by Penn and the University of Chicago Crime Lab is cited.
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Barbara Kahn of the Wharton School comments on how window displays can influence consumers’ purchase process.
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Reacting to the latest allegation of sexual harassment by a senior faculty member of a subordinate, the University of California’s president, Janet Napolitano, said in a letter on Friday to all 10 chancellors of the university system that UC must henceforth respond to such cases “firmly, fairly, and expeditiously” and that the university must impose “appropriate sanctions” that “recognize the serious nature of these claims,” reports the Los Angeles Times. Ms.
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Jerry Jacobs of the School of Arts & Sciences is mentioned for his book In Defense of Disciplines.
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A report published last year in the Journal of Applied Psychology confirms what many might say is obvious: "Incivility, … defined as insensitive behavior that displays a lack of regard for others, is rampant and on the rise." This will not be news for academics. Consider the regular calls for an end to faculty incivility — the rudeness, abusive language, bullying, and general meanness that seem to characterize many of our interactions. We aren’t the only profession with jerks, certainly. But the academy does seem to offer a refuge for the obnoxious.
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Katherina Rosqueta of the School of Social Policy & Practice’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy comments on the strategy and impact of using popular fictional stories in nonprofit advertisement.
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Matt Blaze of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is part of a piece about encryption.
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The notion of a campus “safe space,” which has seen much ink and ridicule, is nothing new, says Louie Dean Valencia-García. The teaching fellow at Fordham University in New York has studied student protest movements from those in Franco’s fascist Spain to “Occupy Wall Street.” The term “safe spaces” was first used by gay men facing ridicule and violence in the 1960s, as well as by young feminists being derided in classrooms. “It was a response to hate, and trying to find a place that was safer than those they were experiencing on campuses,” Mr. Valencia-García says.