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New Fermentation Process Helps Penn Students Brew Future
David Issadore of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and students Shashwata Narain, Alexander David, and Siddharth Shah are featured for the students’ creation of a new fermentation process that can be used for beer production.
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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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Audio: Teaching Medical Professionals How to Talk to Transgender Patients
Katie Margo of the Perelman School of Medicine is featured for training medical professionals in how to talk to transgender patients.
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Where Are the Minority Professors?
On average, 75 out of every 100 full-time faculty members at four-year colleges are white. Five are black, and even fewer are Hispanic. But that’s not the whole story. Among the higher ranks and at certain types of institutions — say, small, private master’s universities — the faculty is even less diverse. Using the drop-down menus below, you can find the racial and ethnic breakdowns of all types of professors and institutions. Click the bars to see which colleges employ the most faculty members in each group.
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Building a Bridge Between Engineering and the Humanities
The engineering field is booming these days. Society regards it as an essential part of innovation, and colleges promote a degree in it as an entry into a fruitful, sustaining career. The humanities, by contrast, are in peril, with fewer students each year. We want to bridge this divide and help create a system where the two areas are not separate but are essential to each other. One of us began his studies in art and is now dean of an engineering school, and the other is an expert in Russian literature who originally planned to study physics.
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Antonin Scalia’s Death Probably Won’t Affect ‘Fisher,’ but It Could Change the Future of Affirmative Action
The death on Saturday of Antonin Scalia, the sharp-tongued justice who shaped constitutional debates for nearly 30 years, could end up shifting the Supreme Court’s ideological balance. But his absence is unlikely to affect the highly anticipated ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the pending legal challenge to race-conscious college-admissions policies. In short, the math still seems to favor the court’s conservative wing.
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The Uncertain Path to Full Professor
They have national, even international reputations for groundbreaking research and scholarship. They write lauded books, win coveted prizes, draw graduate-student disciples. Their institutions and their disciplines tap them as leaders. They’re full professors, the elite class of the professoriate. But the path that scholars must follow to join their ranks is hardly clear-cut, which can make it more difficult for some people — particularly women and minorities — to get there.