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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Taking Stands
Prominent figures in academe and higher education groups continue to issue statements about the election of Donald J. Trump, the numerous incidents of intolerance since the election and the challenges facing academe.
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One Month Without Food
Thomas Wadden of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on the physical effects of long-term fasting.
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Law School Accreditors Raising the Bar
With the percentage of fledgling lawyers failing state licensing exams on the rise, national accreditors are getting tough and telling law schools to better prepare students for legal practice or risk losing their accreditation.
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ADHD in Women: A Lifetime of Frustration, Its Cause Easily Missed
Anthony Rostain of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about the Penn Adult ADHD Treatment & Research Program. Lisa Tuttle, a skills coach in the program, talks about her own struggle with ADHD.
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How to Bring Out Every Lawyer’s Inner Entrepreneur
Bernice Grant of the Law School comments on the importance of lawyers being financially literate.
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Trump’s Influential Son-in-law Went to Harvard. Is This How Jared Kushner Got In?
Daniel Golden is the editor of ProPublica, an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. In 2004, he won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting for a series of Wall Street Journal articles exposing how some wealthy white families can use assets — cash and political connections — to get their children into top colleges and universities.
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Cornel West Is Coming Back to Teach at Harvard
Cornel West, the fiery African-American scholar who broke with Harvard University 14 years ago and whose searing critiques of President Barack Obama earned him the enmity of many on the left, has been invited back to the university to teach. He is to hold a joint appointment at the Harvard Divinity School and the department of African and African-American studies as a professor of the practice of public philosophy, a title reserved for those who have made outstanding contributions in their professional fields.
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Presidents’ Message to President-Elect
One hundred and ten college and university presidents have issued a joint letter to President-elect Donald Trump urging him to forcefully “condemn and work to prevent the harassment, hate and acts of violence that are being perpetrated across our nation, sometimes in your name, which is now synonymous with our nation’s highest office.” This action is needed, the presidents write, because of the incidents taking place nationwide, including many on college campuses.
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Moody’s Warns Trump Presidency Hurt Colleges Could Hurt Colleges Counting On International Students
The xenophobic rhetoric and nativist policies heralded by President-elect Donald Trump could have consequences for colleges and universities counting on foreign students to raise revenue. Moody’s Investors Service anticipates the flow of international students into the United States will wane if Trump upholds a campaign promise to limit or end the H-1B visa program for high-skilled foreign workers.
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Can Anything – LSD Perhaps – Help ‘Suicide Headaches?’
John Detre of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on debilitating cluster headaches and treatment options.