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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Mark Liberman of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for studying pitch and tone through comparisons of Republican presidential candidates’ speeches.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on mainstream media and says, “There’s a dominant polarization narrative that is driving coverage.”
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Frederic Bushman of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on fecal transplants.
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A progressive political action committee announced this week that multiple Democrats in high-profile Senate races would back calls for debt-free college in the wake of Bernie Sanders’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic presidential nominee. The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a political action committee focused on backing left-leaning policy ideas and candidates, announced that eight Democratic candidates for Senate were getting behind the goal of debt-free college.
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Malcolm Gladwell does not want you, your kids, or your friends to go to Bowdoin College. Bowdoin, in turn, says Gladwell and his podcast producer took a “manipulative and disingenuous shot” at the Maine college and its well-regarded food and dining services. The culinary clash started when Gladwell, The New Yorker writer and best-selling author, published his “Revisionist History” podcast. The episode, titled “Food Fight,” argued that private liberal arts colleges that spend money on food do so at the expense of financial aid for poorer students.
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Walk toward the main library at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and you can’t miss the Pride Center. A bright rainbow flag stands on the lawn in front of the building where the center makes its home. Nine more colorful flags — representing different sexualities and gender identities — decorate the facade.
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Susan Levy of the Perelman School of Medicine is cited for a co-authoring a study that reviews complementary and alternative treatments for autism.
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When Temple University hired Neil Theobald as its president in 2013, some at the Philadelphia institution with 37,000 students described his selection as a harbinger of things to come in higher education. Unlike many of his counterparts at major universities who arrived at their jobs immediately after stints as provosts or deans, Theobald had been the chief financial officer at Indiana University.
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The former Baylor president Kenneth W. Starr complained that he had never seen it. Baylor’s alumni association called for its release. The Big 12 Conference has asked for it — twice. But there is one problem. It — a written report of an investigation conducted by an outside law firm in the wake of several sexual assault allegations and convictions involving Baylor football players — does not exist. “Various voices have called for the release of the ‘full report,’” the university’s interim president, David Garland, wrote in June after the Board of Regents demoted Mr.
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Stewart Friedman of the Wharton School is quoted about the evolution of the “out of office” message employees use.