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Food Trust, Penn Student Group Launch ‘Healthy Food Truck Certification Program’
A Penn student-led organization, Healthy Food Truck Initiative, is highlighted for partnering with The Food Trust to develop and run the Healthy Food Truck Certification Program.
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Princeton Will Resume Transfer Admissions
Since 1990, Princeton University has not admitted transfer students -- even as a growing number of colleges have embraced transfer admissions as a way to attract a more diverse student body than is possible relying on full-time freshman enrollment. On Tuesday, the university announced plans to change. The university, as part of a new strategic plan, said that it will have a transfer plan in place by 2018. The strategic plan will also result in an additional 125 students being admitted each year (through a variety of means besides transfer).
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It’s More Important for Kids to Be Authentic Than Creative
Adam Grant of the Wharton School shares his ideas on how parents can nurture creativity in their children.
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Animal Planet Greenlights Series on Penn Vet School
A new docu-series called Penn Vet on the Animal Planet television network will focus on Ryan Hospital and New Bolton Center.
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Audio: Wharton Professor Adam Grant on ‘Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World”
Adam Grant of the Wharton School talks about his new book, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World.
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Video: How to Make Public Engagement a Priority at Research Universities
Public universities should deepen their engagement with their communities and make those partnerships part of their core academic missions, says Robert J. Jones, president of the University at Albany, part of the State University of New York system. Universities' expertise should be used to solve society's complex problems, he says, and public engagement needs to be integrated into both faculty-reward systems and students' educational experiences.
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The U.S. Is Running Out of Nurses
Julie Sochalski of the School of Nursing says, “The aging population and chronic disease are creating the perfect storm driving demand for nurses.”
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Syracuse Student’s Viral Video: Why I Left My Sorority
A Syracuse University senior who left her sorority made a video about her experiences there that has sparked a national debate about Greek life and how women treat one another. After playing basketball all through high school in Bethesda, Alex Purdy said she rushed as a freshman because she thought a sorority might provide the same sort of belonging and friendship she had enjoyed on a team. But the experience seemed a little … empty.
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Better Off Ted
Young voters, in some ways, performed as many expected in the Iowa caucuses Monday. They overwhelmingly supported Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton, for example. But what young Republican voters would end up doing was a little more of a mystery. Ted Cruz, whose outreach to younger voters has been limited, won with more support from voters between the ages of 18 and 29 than any of the other GOP candidates, according to entrance polling analysis by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE).
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Circadian Clock and Aging
Garrett FitzGerald of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about studying the role of the internal clock in human disease.