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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Women scientists were written out of history. It’s Margaret Rossiter’s lifelong mission to fix that
M. Susan Lindee of the School of Arts and Sciences praised academic Margaret Rossiter’s research on women’s contributions to science. “We have to look at her past work carefully,” said Lindee, “and re-examine all those brilliant strategies that women used to contest institutional power, which was oriented around preventing them from succeeding.”
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Democrats need to take a page from Republican playbook on the Supreme Court
Kermit Roosevelt III of the Law School co-authored an op-ed proposing that Democrats should “start focusing on the essential role federal judges play in our form of government.”
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Learn how blockchain works at cryptocurrency mining exhibit in University City
Doctoral candidate Zane Cooper and Kyle Cassidy of the Annenberg School for Communication collaborated on a multimedia exhibit exploring cryptocurrency mining in Iceland.
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Twitter got somewhat more civil when tweets doubled in length. Here’s how we know
Yphtach Lelkes and Ph.D. student Alvin Zhou of the Annenberg School for Communication co-authored an analysis of Twitter’s decision to double its character limit on Tweets. “We found that doubling the permissible length of a tweet led to users posting less uncivil, more polite and more constructive replies to politicians,” they wrote.
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Personality tests are the astrology of the office
Adam Grant of the Wharton School weighed in on the lack of evidence behind personality tests like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Myers-Briggs and analogs create “the illusion of expertise about psychology,” he said.
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How reading a good book can make you a better person
Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts and Sciences wrote about the human capacity for empathy. “True, human beings tend to be egocentric, experiencing and reacting to the here-and-now of our lives,” she wrote. “But also true, and out of all species perhaps uniquely so, we’re capable of mentally untethering ourselves from our own narrative and imagining what it is like to walk a path entirely different than our own.”
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An open letter to college-bound students and their parents
Dean Eric Furda of Admissions co-signed an open letter to students going through the college-admissions process. “If your work on an application finds you wondering where to turn for help, support or reassurance, contact us,” the letter reads. “Helping you is not our job; it is our privilege.”
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Collection of premier proverb scholar opens at UVM
Dan Ben-Amos of the School of Arts and Sciences said Wolfgang Mieder of the University of Vermont is “one of the greatest proverb scholars of all times and the greatest of our generation.”
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Falling yields unleash flood of muni ‘century bonds’
MaryFrances McCourt, vice president for finance and treasurer, said a recent century bond purchased by the University cost half a percentage point less than anticipated. “Our borrowing costs beat our expectations,” she said. “We were thrilled.”
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Don't blame Flores Agreement for migration wave, attorneys and experts tell court
Fernando Chang-Muy of the Law School said “few to none” of the potential asylum seekers he encountered in Honduras seemed “aware of the existence of the Flores Settlement Agreement,” which set standards for how migrant children apprehended by the U.S. government are to be sheltered.