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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Amanda Prorok of the School of Engineering and Applied Science talks about her collaborative research on how swarm intelligence could help self-driving cars.
Penn In the News
Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences writes about typecasting as a “Trump.”
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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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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.
Penn In the News
Michael Perlis of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about causes of and solutions for chronic sleep problems.
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Only a small minority of private colleges -- generally among the most elite and most wealthy -- pledge to admit students without regard to financial need and to meet the full financial need of accepted applicants. That group is now smaller, with Haverford College's decision to drop its commitment to need-blind admissions. The college says changes will be modest. The college will evaluate all applicants as it has in the past (at least for those from the U.S.), without regard to financial need. The college will also determine the size of its financial aid budget for the year.
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Dean Theodore Ruger of the Law School discusses the recent Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action and abortion laws.
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Virginia Man-Yee Lee of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about ways to help cure Alzheimer’s disease.
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Brendan O’Leary of the School of Arts & Sciences proposes a multi-national constitutional compromise to address the U.K.’s exit from the European Union.
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Raymond E. Crossman remembers exactly where he was last June when he heard that the U.S. Supreme Court had issued a ruling that effectively legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. He was standing at a podium addressing the LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education conference at Adler University, in Chicago, where he is president. The news of a critical victory for lesbian and gay rights set off a celebration among the more than 100 attendees at the conference, the first annual meeting dedicated to openly LGBT leaders and administrators in academe. "I was dancing on the stage," Mr.