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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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So Who’s Going to Pay For You to Live to Be 100?
Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School comments on Americans living to 100 years old and the ways their finances will be supported.
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Doctors Explore Benefits of ‘Bloodless’ Surgery
The Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery is cited.
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Under Fire From Lawmakers, a Flagship Tries to Explain Why Diversity Matters
When J.T. Taylor came to the University of Tennessee at Knoxville as a freshman, she immediately found a home at the Pride Center, which serves students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer. Ms. Taylor, a senior who is African-American and identifies as queer, says she has also benefited immensely from a mentoring program and other efforts sponsored by the university’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion. But now, as Tennessee lawmakers cast doubt on whether public colleges should direct any state money toward diversity, Ms.
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Student Athletes Report Success After College, But Sports Take Toll on Some Men
The latest results from a landmark survey of college graduates contains two big findings: Female college athletes make great employees; and male college football and basketball players pay a physical price later in life. The insights come courtesy of the Gallup–Purdue Index, a 2014 survey of 30,000 college graduates commissioned by Purdue President Mitch Daniels to discern the value of a college education. The upshot: It is less important where a student attends college than how involved they become with a mentor, a community or a long-term project.
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Guns Are Okay In Classrooms, Not In Dorms, University of Texas President Says
Guns will be allowed in classrooms at the University of Texas at Austin next school year, but not in the dorms save for some narrow exceptions, under guidelines issued Wednesday. University President Greg Fenves submitted the rules reluctantly to comply with the state’s new campus carry law, which has generated intense controversy. The law allows the concealed carrying of weapons by license holders in public university buildings across the state.
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This Is the Best Way to Get People to Exercise
Mitesh Patel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School says that “people are motivated by losses more than gains and prefer getting rewarded now rather than later.”
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This Is Not a Love Story
Susan Sorenson of the School of Social Policy & Practice is quoted about domestic violence.
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Why a Constitutional Originalist Would Reject the GOP’s Delay, Delay, Delay Tactics
Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School writes about “originalism.”
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Billion-Dollar Targets
Wealthy universities’ endowments are once again in the crosshairs on Capitol Hill. Amid double-digit investment returns and growing public anxiety about student debt and the price of college, members of Congress are reviving their scrutiny of the nation’s richest colleges, an issue that largely was put on hold after the financial crisis in 2008. Earlier this week two congressional committees sent letters to several dozen colleges and universities, seeking a wide range of information about how they manage their endowments and spend endowment funds.
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The Takeaway That Could Make You Exercise More
Mitesh Patel of the Perelman School of Medicine and Kevin Volpp of Medicine and the Wharton School are quoted about incentives to help people lose weight.