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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Tread the Third Path to Innovation
The work of David Robertson of the Wharton School focuses on the importance of complementary innovations in product development and longevity.
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Correcting Jeff Sessions
Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered a speech in Las Vegas last week pushing a policy point that has been a staple of President Donald Trump’s recent rhetoric: sanctuary cities -- municipalities or localities that prohibit local law enforcement from enforcing or cooperating with federal immigration law -- are a haven for undocumented immigrants and thus hotbeds for criminals and illegal activity that would otherwise be punished. Sessions even cited an academic study to prove his point.
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Where Are All of the Teachers Going?
Richard Ingersoll of the Graduate School of Education comments on the costs of teacher attrition in the United States.
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The NRA Wants to Solve Domestic Violence by Arming Victims. It Probably Won’t Work
Susan Sorenson of the School of Social Policy & Practice is quoted on the risk of arming domestic-violence victims.
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What Candice Jackson Got Right About Alcohol and Rape on Campus
Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education writes about the link between alcohol consumption and rape on college campuses.
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Columbia Settles With Student Cast as a Rapist in Mattress Art Project
It was a performance art piece that became famous: A woman who felt that Columbia University had mishandled her charge of rape against a fellow student turned that anger into her senior arts thesis, a yearlong project in which she carried a 50-pound mattress whenever she was on the Morningside Heights campus.
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Not Who You Think: The Truth About Today’s College Students
An observation about school made by a Georgia lawyer 60 years ago still makes sense in very different times.
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The Mental Health Email Shared ’Round the World
David Mandell of the Perelman School of Medicine weighs in on an employee’s email that went viral about taking a mental-health day. He says, "People are talking about this a lot in the context of mental health, but perhaps an equally important point is that our culture around work in the U.S. may not be particularly healthy.”
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How Universal College Admission Tests Help Low-Income Students
There is widespread concern about over-testing in schools. Yet we need all students to take the right tests if low-income and minority children are to have a good shot at a quality college education.
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Study: Blood Test Detects Pancreatic Cancer
Kenneth Zaret of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on diagnosing pancreatic cancer that is often found too late.