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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education shares her thoughts on offering students support after the presidential election.
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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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Thomas Wadden of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on the physical effects of long-term fasting.
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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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Kevin Allred, an adjunct in women's and gender studies at Rutgers University, has been placed on leave and barred from teaching amid a controversy over his comments on Twitter -- comments some say are threats of violence and others say are clearly rhetoric used to criticize President-elect Donald Trump. Rutgers informed the New York City Police Department of concerns about Allred last week (he lives in New York City), and police officers took him for a psychological evaluation and then released him.
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David Dinges of the Perelman School of Medicine is mentioned for leading research about “Standardized Behavior Measures for Detecting Behavioral Health Risks During Exploration Missions.”
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In October, when the Harvard University dining-hall employees’ union went on strike, students joined workers with picket signs and staged a sit-in of the lobby where negotiations were taking place. And before the strike, medical students challenged Harvard’s health-care proposals for workers. After nearly three weeks on strike, the workers finally reached an agreement with Harvard administrators, and the collection of students who helped catalyze the workers’ strike joined them in calling the fight a success.
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Bernice Grant of the Law School comments on the importance of lawyers being financially literate.
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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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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.