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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School says, “The dominant reasons for wanting euthanasia or assisted suicide are psychological and involve control factors.”
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University Chaplain Charles Howard writes about “Defiant Black Joy.”
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As the Obama administration draws to a close and the nation prepares to select a new president, historically Black colleges and universities leaders reflected on the past and future of the HBCU community at the annual HBCU Week conference, held in Arlington, Va. The HBCU community has seen notable ups and downs over the past eight years, precipitated by the Great Recession and changes to the Parent PLUS loans, which resulted in a loss of tuition dollars and a decline in enrollment at many schools. Some schools, such as St. Paul’s College, were forced to close their doors.
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Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education shares his thoughts on the regulation of free speech at universities and the lack of faculty input.
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Last spring, Ashok K. Goel pulled off one of the great pranks in the history of artificial intelligence. In an online course, Mr. Goel, a computer-science professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, relied on nine teaching assistants, including one named Jill Watson, to handle questions from the 300 students. Near the end of the term, Mr. Goel revealed to students that Jill was in fact a computerized assistant, powered by IBM’s Watson technology, which is designed to answer questions. A few students had suspicions about Jill along the way, but one thought Mr.
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Hermann Pfefferkorn of the School of Arts & Sciences is featured for his geology research.
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Katherine Milkman of the Wharton School is featured for her research on a self-control strategy, “temptation bundling.”
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Angela Bradbury of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about research that shows that young women from families with breast cancer history do not have higher rates of psychological problems.
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The Rolling Stone magazine writer whose article about allegations of a horrific gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity was retracted testified Friday in federal court that she believed the subject of her article was credible at the time, and she rebutted assertions that she did not reach out to key figures in the young woman’s story. For more than two hours Friday, the jury of eight women and two men listened to an interview journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely conducted in a Charlottesville restaurant in September 2014 with “Jackie,” the U-Va.
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Student Allison Fried of the Graduate School of Education pens an op-ed about disciplinary options for students.