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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Penn is one of 10 teams facing off in a Quidditch tournament at the Harry Potter Festival this weekend.
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Nitin Ahuja of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on the unlikelihood of fatalities due to irritable bowel syndrome.
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Francesca Sinacori attended an orientation for parents of newly minted University of Massachusetts at Amherst students in June 2012. Her son had just enrolled as a freshman there, and though she was nervous about him leaving home, she felt comfortable. The college had its own police department with sworn officers — her son would be safe.
Penn In the News
In this session from the 2017 Times Higher Education World Academic Summit, the leaders of some of the world’s most prestigious universities compare the roles and responsibilities of their institutions in being global hubs and creating knowledge economies that span the world (set within the context of a recent rise in more nationalist political agendas).
Penn In the News
The ads showed up in the feeds of thousands of Facebook users, and the timing of the sponsored posts — less than two months before the University of Virginia’s application deadline — was no accident.
Penn In the News
David Skeel of the Law School says, “Failure of a major clearinghouse could paralyze large swaths of the financial markets.”
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Richard B. Spencer, a prominent white nationalist, is scheduled to speak at the University of Florida on Thursday, prompting an outcry over whether his views are protected speech, dividing the campus and putting law enforcement officials on high alert.
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Paul Cobb of the School of Arts and Sciences comments on the analysis of Viking burial clothes found to have Arabic script.
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Martin Ihrig of the Graduate School of Education and the Wharton School comments on local organizations and resources collaborating to boost the city schools’ arts programs.
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Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School, along with Aaron Glickman and Emily Gudbranson of Penn Medical Ethics & Health Policy, wrote about Donald Trump’s missed opportunity for bipartisan health care reform.