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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international 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.
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Small, Rural Colleges Grapple With Their Geography
The route Google Maps recommends if you’re headed to Ferrum College from the west involves what may be the loneliest and most roller-coaster-like stretch of roadway ever to earn a state route number from Virginia. It’s a narrow ribbon of pavement with no center line, a twisting trail you drive imagining that if you go over the edge, weeks could pass before anyone found the wreckage. Only at the other end do you spot a yellow sign that reads, "GPS Routing Not Advised."
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The Secret Washington Battle Determining Drug Prices
Ezekiel J. Emanuel of the Wharton School and the School of Medicine writes about drug-pricing policies.
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Cuts Questioned at U of Chicago
Budget cuts are drawing protests at the University of Chicago amid worries academic departments are being asked to pay for a past construction boom -- and faculty members fear that their historical influence on major decisions is being diminished.
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Granite ‘Stumps’ on Mount Royal Run Counter to Park Designer's Vision: Experts
Witold Rybczynski of the School of Design comments on the history of placing statues and art objects in parks.
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Service Robots Are Coming to Help Us
Mark Yim of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is quoted on how robots can be commercially viable.
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$1,300 to Take One Test? Med Students are Fed Up
Before heading out into the field, U.S. medical students must prove they can translate years of training into actual patient care. They have long had to pass a series of time consuming, arduous exams that judge their grasp of the concepts and practices central to being a doctor.
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Finding Ways to Keep Patients at Home
David Casarett of the Perelman School of Medicine writes about keeping the elderly in their homes near the end of life.
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Measuring Inclusivity
Across the country, many colleges are making the same promises: we will do more to support our minority students. We care deeply about diversity. We are committed to an inclusive campus.