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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Dean Antonia Villarruel of the School of Nursing offers her views on proposed legislation to expand the duties of nurse-practitioners.
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Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education shares her thoughts on the president of Florida A&M University and its Board of Trustees.
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Duke University said it has withdrawn a claim for about $10 million it made against the estate of oil man Aubrey McClendon, who died before he could make good on pledges the North Carolina college said he made to his alma mater. A spokesman for the university said paperwork asking to withdraw the claim was filed on Friday in the Oklahoma City district court where the Chesapeake Energy Corp. co-founder’s estate is being wound down. Records in that case show the claim was filed Aug. 12, but it was only made public last week and first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
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The Federal Trade Commission on Friday filed a complaint against the academic journal publisher OMICS Group and two of its subsidiaries, saying the publisher deceives scholars and misrepresents the editorial rigor of its journals. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, marks the first time the FTC has gone after what are often known as “predatory” publishers.
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Robert Inman of the Wharton School is quoted about business tax breaks saying, "One of the principles of tax economics is that if the tax is high, people find a way of moving around it.”
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Aseem Shukla of the Perelman School of Medicine comments about parents expressing concern about the growth of their sons’ penises.
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Susan Davidson of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is featured about how researchers can cite a particular search of a given database so others can duplicate that search.
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Virginia Tech officials warned the campus community after threatening emails arrived at multiple campus email addresses Monday afternoon. Campus police are investigating. “We take all threats seriously,” spokesman Mark Owczarski wrote in an email Monday afternoon. “We issued a campus wide email to make the community aware and ask people to share information if they have any.” Later in the afternoon, campus police reported that people at four other universities had received the same email, he said.
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Colleges are worried about how to cover the costs of overtime pay that dozens of coaches, counselors, and other employees may soon become entitled to under a new federal rule designed to ensure they're paid equitably. The new law, a change to the Fair Labor Standards Act that takes effect in December, makes more full-time salaried employees eligible for overtime pay. Those employees who earn up to $47,000 per year will be eligible for extra pay for work over 40 hours a week; now only those who earn up to $23,000 per year are.
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In the fall of 2008, a team of researchers began studying some 3,000 Pell Grant recipients who had enrolled in Wisconsin’s 42 public colleges and universities for the first time that year. At age 18, they were ambitious, committed (all began full time), and entirely unaware that, six years later, fewer than half of them would complete a degree of any kind. What they also did not know (yet) was that the research team, which I led, would follow them on their college journeys.