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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Today’s Freshman Class Is the Most Likely to Protest in Half a Century
Today’s college freshmen are more likely to participate in a student-led protest than each of the nearly five decades of classes that preceded them, according to survey results released on Thursday. That includes the college freshmen of the late 1960s and early 70s, an era storied for its on-campus political activism.
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Police Release Video of Traffic Stop of Princeton Professor
The police in Princeton, N.J., released a dashboard video of the traffic stop of a black Princeton professor that led to her being handcuffed and searched by a white male officer — an encounter that she said left her humiliated and was emblematic of officers’ mistreatment of African-Americans.
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Penn Museum Displays the Midas Touch
C. Brian Rose of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Museum discusses objects on display from early excavations of the Gordion site and says, “In those days, archaeologists dug enormous tracts of land in an effort to make sensational discoveries in as short a time as possible.”
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How People Learn to Become Resilient
Martin Seligman of the School of Arts and Sciences and his work are referenced in this article on human resiliency.
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U.S. House Backs New Bid to Require ‘National Interest’ Certification for NSF Grants
The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation on Wednesday that would require the National Science Foundation to award grants only for research projects that the agency can certify as being in the national interest. The Republican-written measure (HR 3293), passed on a nearly party-line vote of 236 to 178, would set a series of broad yardsticks by which the "national interest" could be defined, such as improving American economic health or strengthening national defense.
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The Truth About Infidelity: Why Researchers Say It’s Time To Rethink Cheating
Edward Monte of School of Social Policy & Practice is quoted on his research into infidelity and why divorce shouldn’t be the first step.
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There's a Lesson In Spain's Surreal, Unfinished Cities
Christopher Marcinkoski of the School of Design and his new book, The City That Never Was, are featured.
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Universities Have Duty to Engage With Their Cities
Penn’s community engagement, particularly in west Philadelphia, is mentioned.
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Backgrounds and Beliefs of College Freshmen
For five decades, researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles have surveyed the nation's incoming freshmen to learn more about their backgrounds, views, and expectations. Use this interactive graphic to see how their attitudes and self-images have changed since the 1960s, as measured by UCLA's Cooperative Institutional Research Program, part of the Higher Education Research Institute.
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Lehigh Student Recovers After Zika Case
Lehigh University says a student has recovered after becoming infected with the Zika virus. The school said in a message to students and staff that the student had traveled abroad over winter break. "We are grateful to be able to report that the student has recovered and is feeling well," the message said, adding that officials don't believe anyone else on campus is at risk. State Department of Health officials said earlier this week that two female Pennsylvania residents who had recently traveled to other countries became infected with mild cases of the virus.