5/18
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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You Asked: Why Am I Cold All the Time?
Anne Cappola of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on how metabolism and vascular function play a role in a person’s internal thermostat.
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Urbanitas: Vamos a crear una Asamblea General de la sociedad civil
Eugenie Birch of the School of Design and Penn Institute for Urban Research discusses the importance of promoting citizen planning in urban areas.
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Audio: 5 Ways Extreme Cold Affects Your Body
Tejvir Khurana of the Perelman School of Medicine talks about how the head is a “huge heat-loss source.”
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Swarthmore Applications Soar As Essays Shrink
Admissions officials at Swarthmore College suspected last year that an extra 500-word essay on its application might have fueled a 16 percent drop in applicants, the largest in years. Concerned about the precipitous decline, Swarthmore - one of the most selective and prestigious colleges in the country - deliberately dropped that essay this year and halved the word requirement for another. Applications soared. By its Jan.
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Audio: Why Teens Are Impulsive, Addiction-prone and Should Protect Their Brains
Frances Jensen of the Perelman School of Medicine discusses brain development and why teens have difficulty controlling impulses.
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Video: Health: Wrestling With Danger?
Douglas Smith of the Perelman School of Medicine says, “Traumatic brain injury is one of the strongest environmental risk factors for developing Alzheimer’s disease. It’s linked with earlier dementia.”
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A Day Without Adjuncts
Adjuncts sometimes say they make up higher education’s invisible class. So an idea pitched on social media a few months ago struck a chord: What would happen if adjuncts across the country turned that invisibility on its head by all walking out on the same day? National Adjunct Walkout Day, proposed for Feb.
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States Move to Make Citizenship Exams a Classroom Aid
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says, “One has to understand there are three branches of government before you can understand balance of power.”
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Number of College Students Pursuing Science, Engineering Stagnates
The number of students completing degrees in science and engineering barely budged over the past decade, despite a national push to increase workers’ skills to boost the competitiveness of the U.S. economy.
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Not Promising Enough
Richard Gelles of the School of Social Policy & Practice writes about what he thinks is missing from President Obama’s “America’s College Promise” plan.