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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Just a few days before North Carolina’s legislature passed House Bill 2, which requires people to use bathrooms that correspond to the gender listed on their birth certificates, Kaleb A. Lyda enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Lyda, an incoming freshman, is a recipient of the prestigious Morehead-Cain scholarship, a four-year merit scholarship that covers full tuition, housing, student fees, books and supplies, and funds to travel. Born a female, he is a transgender man.
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Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for popularizing the term “grit.”
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Doctoral candidate Amanda Washington and Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education write about what is leading to more students to enroll in historically black colleges and universities.
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Jeanmarie Perrone of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on the potential impact of a new prescription drug-monitoring database in Pennsylvania.
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Diversifying the professoriate has long been a priority on many campuses, and such goals have only grown more urgent in light of recent national and local discussions about race. Yet college and university faculties have become just slightly more diverse in the last 20 years, according to a new study from the TIAA Institute. Most importantly, as faculty jobs have become more stratified with the growth of non-tenure-track positions over the same period, most gains for underrepresented minority groups have been in the most precarious positions. That is, not on the tenure track.
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Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School co-writes an op-ed reviewing the Affordable Care Act and improvements that could be made.
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Classes begin Tuesday at the University of Virginia, and students who returned to campus over the weekend learned of grim news to start the academic year: Authorities say a female student was sexually assaulted at knifepoint by an assailant who remains at large. The university’s chief of police distributed a message to all students about the attack, which occurred early Saturday in a residential area near the Charlottesville campus.
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Mauro Guillén of the Wharton School talks about international trade and the modern economy.
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Michael Thase of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on research that found that Instagram filters can be analyzed to screen for depression.
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With regularity, various groups issue reports on the colleges whose graduates earn the highest postgraduation salaries. Typically, those are colleges that are among the most competitive in admissions. The Obama administration's College Scorecard, while not ranking colleges, includes a postgraduation earnings figure that many others have used to compare colleges. Harvard University graduates, per the federal database, are earning on average $87,200 10 years after entering college, while the figure of nearby University of Massachusetts at Boston is just under $46,000.