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Penn Study Examines How Parasites Break Into the Brain
Christopher Hunt of the School of Veterinary Medicine comments on using a multi-photon microscope to visualize how a specific parasite breaks into the brain.
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Penn, Novartis Open Center to Advance Personalized Cancer Therapies
Bruce Levine of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about Penn Medicine’s collaboration with Novartis to open a new center for advanced cellular therapeutics.
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When Work Becomes a Game
Kevin Werbach of the Wharton School says, “Gamification is about understanding what it is that makes games engaging and what game designers do to create a great experience in games, and taking those learnings and applying them to other contexts such as the workplace and education.”
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Rowan Pursues Atlantic City Medical School Campus
Rowan University is preparing to take the first steps toward creating a medical school campus in Atlantic City, extending the footprint of its growing medical programs and potentially tapping a new student base there. Rowan trustees are set to vote Wednesday on a feasibility study to explore an Atlantic City partnership between the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine and AtlantiCare.
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The Trees a Garden Writer Would Put on His ‘Fantasy Flora’ Team
Paul Meyer of the Morris Arboretum is quoted about specimens of trees and their value.
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Are Too Many Choices Costing 401(k) Holders?
The research of Donald B. Keim and Olivia S. Mitchell of the Wharton School is quoted.
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Into the Mosh Pit: Republican Campaign Talk Gets Nastier
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is quoted about how Donald Trump has ‘“hijacked” political correctness to justify his use of personal attacks.
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Faculty Asked the Mount St. Mary’s President to Resign. He Didn’t.
On Friday, faculty at Mount St. Mary’s asked, by an 87-to-3 vote, for university President Simon Newman to resign by 9 a.m. Monday. The time came and went. And the university was closed Monday because of a snowstorm, so professors did not meet to discuss their reaction to Newman’s decision. They will later in the week, said David McCarthy, secretary to the faculty. Newman was on campus for a student rally Monday morning and thanked the students for their support.
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Every Student Gets a Mentor
John Williams thinks every student should have a mentor, someone who can act as counselor, sounding board, advice giver -- and maybe, if the student is lucky, someone who can open doors in the working world.
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Mount St. Mary’s Alum: We Need to Stop Our University From Destroying Itself
Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland is in turmoil over its leadership, with a nearly unanimous vote by faculty calling on president Simon Newman to resign by Monday morning, and some of his supporters planned a rally Monday morning to counter that.