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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Logging Off, Dropping Out
Knowing how often college students log onto learning management software is one of the best ways to predict whether they will stick with their studies or drop out.
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Doctor’s Plan for Full-body Transplants Raises Doubts Even in Daring China
Abraham Shaked of of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on the possibility of a head transplant.
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Politics, Personality and People With Red Faces
Robert DeRubeis of the School of Arts and Sciences comments on the correct usage of labels used for personality traits.
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Philly Docs Solve Riddle of Patients Who Cough Up 'Tree Branches'
Maxim Itkin and Yoav Dori of the Perelman School of Medicine developed a life-saving technique for a condition called plastic bronchitis.
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Sorry, Trump: You’re Not Getting Sanders’ Voters
Matthew Levendusky of the School of Arts and Sciences writes about Bernie Sanders’ votes going to Clinton and not Trump.
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Marijuana News 2016: Scientists, Frustrated by Funding Shortfalls, Launch Institute for Research on Cannabinoids
Marcel Bonn-Miller of the Perelman School of Medicine is involved in the effort to bring together many of the world’s top marijuana scientists for cutting-edge cannabis studies.
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Patient Wishes Are Tough to See in Electronic Health Records
Ross Koppel of the School of Arts and Sciences offers an estimate on the cost of electronic health record systems.
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The Media Have Finally Figured Out How to Handle Donald Trump
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on Donald Trump’s success in the media.
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Immune Therapies Pose Dilemma: How Much Is Enough?
Noelle Frey of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on maximizing safety without reducing efficacy in drug testing.
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'Universities in a Dangerous World'
During the time attendees have been gathered for the biennial Scholars at Risk congress, news broke that a professor from Montreal’s Concordia University has been imprisoned in Iran. A leader of a Pakistani law college was shot dead by unknown assailants on motorcycles. An Israeli sociology and anthropology professor was among those killed in an attack by Palestinian gunmen on a Tel Aviv restaurant and shopping complex.