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High ‘Good’ Cholesterol Not Always a Good Sign
Daniel Rader of the Perelman School of Medicine is featured for leading a study about “good” cholesterol levels.
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Fake Tenure?
Rejecting a set of amendments that faculty members argued would have preserved tenure as they know it, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved Thursday new tenure policies to fill a hole left by recent changes in state law. “I do not believe the academy is precisely like a business,” Regina Millner, board president, said at the meeting. “But we cannot have quality, serve our students, have quality faculty if we do not have a sound financial system. This is a different century, this is a different time ….
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Temple, Penn Picked to Join $30M Concussion Study
Penn has been chosen to participate in a concussion and head trauma study.
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Penn Study Finds Drawbacks to Cost-saving Measures in Pubic Mental Health Clinics
Rinad Beidas of the Perelman School of Medicine is featured for leading a study that reveals unintended consequences of a workforce shift designed to save costs in public clinics.
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Mothers With No Paid Maternity Leave Turn to Crowdfunding
Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School says, “Whether it’s ‘friends and family’ versus venture capital funding or versus a payday loan, going to your own community is a better bet.”
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Demanding
One recurring feature of the student protests that have recently swept across college campuses is lists of demands -- for new faculty slots, new presidents, "safe spaces" and more inclusive campuses, just to name a few. As the lists have grown longer and more ambitious, responses from administrations have varied. Add to the list Western Washington University, a public university with about 15,000 students. Late last year, Western made the news after the president called off classes in light of anonymous threats sent via the social media app Yik Yak.
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From Wall St. Bundlers to Bradley Cooper: Inside the State Dinner Guest Lists
President Amy Gutmann is listed as being among those who have been guests at President Obama’s state dinners.
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Berkeley Is Under Fire, Again, for How It Handled Sexual Harassment
For the second time in the last five months, the University of California at Berkeley is facing charges that it failed to adequately punish an academic, in this case, a law dean, whom it found responsible for sexual harassment. The university announced on Wednesday that the dean — Sujit Choudhry — would leave the post but would retain his faculty position at the law school. Last summer the university found Mr. Choudhry responsible for sexually harassing his executive assistant.
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Most Americans Wrongly Think Zika Is Deadly
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is quoted about a new survey that reveals that most Americans have misinterpreted the severity of the Zika virus.
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No, Protesters Who Point Out Campus Racism Aren’t Silencing Anyone
Shaun Harper of the Graduate School of Education writes about a new era of “political correctness.”