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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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A Spaniard Selling Lottery Fortune
Mauro Guillén of the Wharton School is cited for co-authoring a study on lotteries.
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Audio: How Movie Theaters Will Make the Most of ‘Star Wars’
Josh Eliashberg of the Wharton School talks about optimal theater scheduling.
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You’ll Be Outraged at How Easy It Was to Get You to Click on This Headline
Jonah Berger of the Wharton School comments on clickbait.
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Playing the Aid Game
Leaders at the University of Wisconsin at Madison have come to terms with a paradigm they find a little unpalatable: the institution needs to up its non-need-based aid if it’s going to be competitive with its peers, they say. Madison offers one of the lowest levels of non-need-based aid, often referred to as merit aid, among fellow Big Ten universities. Institutions such as Ohio State University and the Universities of Iowa and Michigan offer more than twice as many nonneedy freshmen merit aid as Madison does.
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Blacks, Latinos Less Likely to Trust Physicians, Penn Study Finds
Postdoctoral fellow Abigail Sewell of the School of Arts & Sciences is featured for leading a study that found that minority groups like African-Americans and Latinos are less likely than whites to believe their physicians care about them.
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Kenney Wants Temple to Address Neighbors’ Concerns Before He Backs a Stadium
Mayor-elect Jim Kenney met with Temple University officials Thursday and told them they must address the worries of neighbors before he can endorse the school's plan to build a football stadium on campus. "Temple asked for this meeting to explain the benefits of building their stadium," Kenney's spokeswoman, Lauren Hitt, said in a statement Thursday night. "The mayor-elect enjoyed meeting with the university's representatives, and he appreciated them working with the city on this issue.
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Jefferson, Philadelphia University to Merger
In a deal that would join two fast-evolving institutions, Thomas Jefferson University and Philadelphia University on Thursday announced a preliminary agreement to merge. The deal, expected to close by the end of June, could boost Philadelphia University's profile in the competitive Northeastern U.S. market for undergraduates, giving some a straighter shot at Jefferson's medical school. Jefferson, which has announced plans to merge with two hospital systems since 2014, would see its enrollment nearly double and its academic programs expand.
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Why It’s Harder Than Ever for a Poor Kid to Get Into a Good College
Laura Perna of the Graduate School of Education says, “The gap between the haves and the have-nots is just getting bigger.”
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Poland Turns Hard to Right – and Jews Wind Up in Crosshairs
Mitchell Orenstein of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about the controversial comments of government officials in Poland.
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Growth in Foreign Grad Students
First-time enrollments of international students in U.S. graduate schools grew by 5 percent between fall 2014 and 2015, a slowdown from the 8-10 percent growth rate seen in the past few admissions cycles but higher than the rate of growth for domestic students (2 percent). For the first time this year the Council of Graduate Schools’ annual survey of new international student enrollments breaks down the data according to degree level. More than three-quarters (77 percent) of first-time international graduate students are enrolled in master’s and certificate programs.