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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Tennis Players Get an Oxygen Fix
Kamen Simeonov of the Perelman School of Medicine is cited for co-authoring a paper that found lower lung cancer incidence among people living at high elevations.
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Pols Give Nutter Advice About His New Job at Columbia
Mark Alan Hughes of the School of Design and faculty director of the Fels Policy Research Initiative is quoted.
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Students’ Demands Go Beyond Black and White
When Mi Gente, a group that represents Latino students at Duke University, announced that it would boycott a spring recruiting weekend for Latinos because its members were tired of simply being "poster children for brochures," black and Asian-American student groups took to social media to pledge their support. Meanwhile, they were busy with their own demands. All three wanted safe spaces where students could feel comfortable talking about their problems and an accelerated timeline for hiring minority professors.
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Daily Pennsylvanian Archives, as Old as 1885, Now Online
Digital archives of the University’s independent student news organization, The Daily Pennsylvanian, are featured.
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The Scientific Quest to Cure Aging
Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School is cited for speaking out against efforts to extend longevity.
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Endowments Fall to Earth
After two years of healthy growth, colleges' endowment investment return rates fell in 2015. While they didn't come close to the declines of some years in the past decade, the average rate is the lowest reported since 2012. On average, colleges had 2.4 percent returns for the 2015 fiscal year, according to an annual survey by Commonfund and the National Association of College and University Business Officers. The survey includes data from 812 U.S. colleges and universities. That’s considerably lower than the past two years, when returns hit the double digits.
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If You Want to Carry a Gun on Campus, These States Say Yes
Debate continues to boil in Texas over a new law allowing concealed weapons across college campuses. This week a prominent physicist at the flagship University of Texas at Austin said he would seek to bar guns in his classroom even after the law takes effect in August. “I will put it into my syllabus that the class is not open to students carrying guns,” Steven Weinberg, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1979, was quoted as saying in the Austin American-Statesman. “I may wind up in court.
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Dermio Makes Dermatology Diagnoses Simple as Snapping a Photo
Carrie Kovarik of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on teledermatology and encourages follow-up care.
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Penn Researcher Studies ‘American Idol’ Losers
Doctoral candidate Junhow Wei of the School of Arts & Sciences is highlighted for studying how people who audition for “American Idol” cope with not being selected to become contestants on the show.
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Mortimer Zuckerman Unveils $100 Million Science Scholarship Program
Mortimer Zuckerman, the media and real estate mogul, says he got the idea for his new $100 million science scholarship program at 5 o’clock one morning last summer when he couldn’t sleep.