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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Reformers ‘Disrupted’ Public Education. Now an Ivy League Dean Says the Consequences for Kids Can Be ‘Devastating.’
Dean Pam Grossman of the Graduate School of Education writes about the disruptions caused by public education reformers.
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Changing Skyline: On Penn's campus, a new-old building isn't preservation as we know it
Perry World House’s blended preservation design approach is featured.
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Getting a Jump on Lunch May Help You Cut Calories
Eric Van Epps of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on his study of timing meals for weight loss.
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How Washington College President Sheila Bair Plans to Tackle College Affordability
September will usher in the anniversary of Sheila Bair becoming president of Washington College, a liberal arts school in Chestertown, Md., with roughly 1,450 students. The former head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has a keen awareness of the financial challenges facing families in an uneven economic recovery and has responded with a series of programs to ease the burden of paying for college.
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Audio: A trip to space brings astronauts closer to Earth
David Yaden, a research fellow at the Positive Psychology Center, is interviewed about his overview effect research.
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Separating the Philosophy From the Philosopher
Geoff Marcy’s fall from grace at the University of California, Berkeley, last year was hard and swift. After allegations emerged that he’d serially harassed a number of female graduate students, and that Berkeley had investigated the matter but chosen not to immediately punish him, his fellow astronomers launched a public shaming campaign that forced his resignation within a matter of days.
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‘We Write the Violence Out Completely’: A Journalist Says Rape Culture Is Systemic in College Football
In the summer of 2013, the journalist Jessica Luther watched news unfold on two alleged gang rapes involving college football players, one at Vanderbilt University and the other at the United States Naval Academy. She started poking around, searching for similar cases, and she was surprised at just how prevalent the pattern was, she says.
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Will Social Media Define the Success of the Olympic Games?
Student Katerina Girginova of the Annenberg School for Communication writes about social media’s impact on the Olympics.
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The Middle East Conflict on Campus
What some see as a celebration of culture through food, others see as a political statement, and an offensive one at that. Just slip an Israeli flag on a toothpick.
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Legal Confusion Threatens to Slow Data Science
Post-doc Daniel Himmelstein of the Perelman School of Medicine is profiled and encourages researchers to read law about republishing online data sets.