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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Will Supreme Court End Affirmative Action in College Admissions?
The nation’s colleges and universities just finished a school year of extraordinary debate on questions about racial inequality, with activists demanding steps to make campuses more inclusive for minority students. Protesters toppled the University of Missouri’s president after a series of racially charged incidents at the state flagship in Columbia and forced Princeton University to reckon with the segregationist legacy of one of its famed leaders, Woodrow Wilson, the nation’s 28th president.
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Divided America: Constructing Our Own Intellectual Ghettos
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is quoted about people checking on opposing viewpoint and not relying solely on opinionated news.
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A New Scholarship Inspired By the Founding Father of Finance, via Broadway
The craze over the smash-hit Broadway musical Hamilton has reached epic proportions, and Wesleyan University is getting in on the act. On Wednesday the institution announced a new scholarship — the Wesleyan University Hamilton Prize for Creativity — that will fully fund one new student’s four-year education, starting this fall. The award honors the two Wesleyan graduates, Lin-Manuel Miranda ('02) and Thomas Kail ('99), who created and directed the musical, respectively, which chronicles the life of Alexander Hamilton via hip-hop music and a mostly black and Latino cast.
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Former U-Va. Law Student Files Suit Challenging Federal Sexual Assault Directive
A recent University of Virginia law school graduate is challenging a federal directive that transformed the way colleges evaluate allegations of sexual assault on campus. In a lawsuit filed Thursday, the plaintiff, who was accused of and found responsible for sexual misconduct, argues that a 2011 letter from the U.S. Department of Education was a mandate improperly imposed on universities.
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Historical Commission Backs Certification of Kensington Burial Ground
Aaron Wunsch of the School of Design comments on the Mutual Burial Ground of Kensington.
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Audio: ‘We’re at a Point of Historic Reckoning’ on Standards for Behavioral Health Care
Dominic Sisti of the Perelman School of Medicine is interviewed about the evolution of treatment for behavioral health care.
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Presidential Perks
When public college or university presidents are hired, their salaries always attract attention. But new research suggests the real growth in executive costs may be due to expenses and benefits, which these days go beyond the charge to live in the president's mansion. Presidents’ contracts have become long, complex and stuffed with extra benefits going far beyond base salary and a place to live, according to new research from James Finkelstein, a public policy professor at George Mason University who has been analyzing presidential contracts for several years.
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Why You’ll Be Glad You Took That Photo
Researchers from Penn are cited for collaborating on a study that examined the ways taking photographs affects how people enjoy different experiences.
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Doctors: High-velocity Orlando Rifle Inflicts ‘Devastating’ Wounds
Brian Smith of the Perelman School of Medicine explains that the level of damage caused by a high-velocity rifle round is contingent upon what type of tissue it hits.
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$6.5B Price Tag for 35-year University City Overhaul
Amtrak and its partners in the proposed redevelopment of a massive swath around 30th Street Station in University City say the decades-long plan - including partially capping the adjacent rail yard - will involve $6.5 billion in infrastructure funding and private investment. The financial projection is part of the planning team's final blueprint for the 175-acre site extending northeast from 30th Street Station, to be released Thursday morning.