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Placenta-on-a-chip Models What Is ‘Arguably the Least Understood Organ in the Human Body’
Dan Huh of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is quoted about studying placenta-on-a-chip.
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A Platform to Monitor Learning
This is what a class looks like. More specifically, the image above is what a Northwestern University class looks like based on data collected by Yellowdig, a social platform developed by the Philadelphia-based start-up of the same name. Instructors and IT staffers at Northwestern earlier this year built a data visualization tool prototype on top of the platform to see how students use the platform to learn and communicate.
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How Clinton’s ‘Free College’ Could Cause a Cascade of Problems
The policy proposals of presidential campaigns aren’t often burdened by details or even realism. A candidate’s ideas are supposed to represent vision, ambitions, principles — all while taking on the latest American anxiety. These days that anxiety concerns the cost of college and the notion that student debt cripples young people as they head out to get jobs, buy homes, and start families.
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Science Says There’s a Super Easy Way to Eat Healthier
Postdoc Eric VanEpps of the Perelman School of Medicine and Wharton School is cited for studying how advance food ordering can promote healthy behaviors.
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This Bill Gates-backed Fund Wants to ‘Disrupt’ Vaccine Delivery in Poor Countries
Harvey Rubin of the Perelman School of Medicine is mentioned for spearheading “Energize the Chain,” a project that connects vaccine refrigerators to cell towers.
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A University Makes a Rare Call to Ditch Its Title IX Exemption
Early this year Pepperdine University’s president quietly sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. The subject line was nearly identical to that of a letter that a previous president had sent, in 1976: "Pepperdine University’s Title IX Exemption." But the two letters had opposite goals. In 1976 Pepperdine had asked to be made exempt from Title IX, a law that bans sex discrimination at educational institutions that receive federal funds.
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Feds Open a New Sexual Violence Investigation at U-Va.
The federal government has opened a new civil rights investigation related to sexual violence issues at the University of Virginia, officials disclosed Wednesday
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Suit Claims Penn Dentist Was Fired for Reporting Unneeded Treatment
"A dentist who was fired by Penn Dental Medicine is suing the University of Pennsylvania, alleging he was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for reporting that a fellow dentist was providing unnecessary treatment to make more money.”
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Fix Federal Law to Reduce Colon Cancer Disparities
Chyke Doubeni of the Perelman School of Medicine writes about colorectal cancer.
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Video: An Earful and Accent That’s Distinctly Philly
Meredith Tamminga of the School of Arts & Sciences is interviewed about the distinct Philadelphia accent.