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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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What Happens When Nobody Wants to Be the Boss?
Stewart Friedman of the Wharton School says, “Millenials saw their parents devote their lives to those kinds of total-immersion manager jobs, only to be ejected in the financial crisis.”
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In Print: Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs
A review of a book co-authored by Jonathan Barnett of the School of Design.
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Researchers Observe Effects of Art on the Brain
Anjan Chatterjee of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on how brain damage affects working artists.
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The Problem With Public Pensions
Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School comments on the difficulty of estimating and calculating pension liabilities in the public sector.
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How a Prominent Legal Group Could Change the Way Colleges Handle Rape
The American Law Institute, a scholarly group influential in legal circles, is beginning to craft guidelines on campus sexual assault that will seek to outline best practices and bring some clarity to the tangles of compliance with federal law.
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How This Supreme Court Case Could Change College Affirmative Action (+Video)
On December 9, the US Supreme Court will once again take up the case of Abigail Fisher, a former applicant rejected for admission to the University of Texas at Austin, whose allegations of unfair racial bias against whi
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Many Kids With Exemptions Have Gotten Some Vaccines
School of Nursing’s Alison Buttenheim shares her findings on the number of children who are vaccinated.
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Material One Thousand Times Thinner Than Paper Withstands the Squeeze To Retain Its Shape
Igor Bargatin of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is featured for researching the thinnest plates that can be picked up by hand.
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Studies Show MSIs Best Value in Higher Education
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education is quoted on the research being done to calculate the return on investment of minority higher education institutions.
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College Courses That Don’t Challenge Students Can Hurt Them. They Need to Go.
I confess I took a course in college — celestial navigation — that required no homework and included a boat trip around the local harbor as a final exam. We called such courses “guts.” The college classmate I have been living with for several decades says, “We treasured them when we found them.”