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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Why Should Behavioral Health Care Be Any Different?
Graduate student Andrea Segal of the Perelman School of Medicine writes about disparities in behavioral health care.
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What Happens When Your Research Is Featured on ‘Fox & Friends’
If you’ve read one thing about microaggressions on college campuses, it might just be this tip sheet. The document, "Racial Microaggressions in Every Day Life," lists examples of microaggressions, or subtle slights of marginalized groups. For example: "America is a melting pot" may be received by members of minority groups as code that they need to assimilate, the sheet says.
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Audio: If Great Britain Goes, So Could the English Language
Mauro Guillén of the Wharton School comments on the message behind the European Union’s threat to get rid of English.
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Kéré Architecture Suspends Colourful Strings From Ceiling of Philadelphia Art Museum
Students from the School of Design are mentioned for helping produce a soundscape to accompany an art exhibit.
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Video: The End of Traffic: How the Smartest People in the World Are Fixing Your Commute
Amanda Prorok of the School of Engineering and Applied Science talks about her collaborative research on how swarm intelligence could help self-driving cars.
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As Big Data Comes to College, Officials Wrestle to Set New Ethical Norms
A week before classes begin at the University of Maryland University College, students can start poking around the online course materials. Some do, looking over the syllabus and getting a feel for the subject, but others don’t bother. It turns out that with just a little number crunching of that pre-course behavior, university officials can make some surprisingly accurate predictions about who will flourish and who will flounder.
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How Investors Can Stay Calm When the Markets Are Going Mad
Philip Tetlock of the Wharton School and the School of Arts & Sceinces is quoted about the accuracy of expert stock market forecasters.
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Typecast as ‘Trump’
Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences writes about typecasting as a “Trump.”
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Inside the Underground Arts Scene That’s Rewriting Chester’s Bad Rep
Randall Mason of the School of Design comments on using arts culture as an approach to help the redevelopment of a city.
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AAUP Rethinks How It Fights Governing Boards
When the nation’s leading defender of faculty rights decides to rebuke a college, its precise language may leave close observers scratching their heads. Why, for instance, did it vote this month to sanction the University of Iowa over its controversial presidential search, instead of the board, which it explicitly identified as the bad actor? The answer: It has long believed it has no other choice.