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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Jeanmaire Perrone of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about a synthetic opioid W-18.
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The Harvard College Class of 2016 will graduate Thursday, leaving behind a year filled with tension over race relations on campus, the school’s massive endowment, and its all-male social clubs. But it hasn’t been all dramatics. In its annual survey, the student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, asked seniors to reflect on their college experiences and what they have planned next (yes, including their starting salaries). The email survey received 906 responses, which is more than half the class, though The Crimson said not all respondents answered every question.
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Santa J. Ono, president of the University of Cincinnati, made some strikingly candid remarks at a mental-health fund-raising event on Saturday night, telling an audience that he had attempted suicide on two separate occasions, first in his teens and again in his late 20s. Mr. Ono spoke to about 200 people at the event, which was organized by 1N5, a group named to denote the one in five teenagers with mental-health conditions.
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Some people in the crowd at a graduation ceremony at California State University, Fullerton, shouted at the commencement speaker after she talked about presidential candidate Donald Trump and gave a brief section of her address in Spanish. “It’s really sad,” the commencement speaker, Maria Elena Salinas, an anchor for Spanish language broadcast network Univision, said Tuesday. “And it’s a testament to what has happened in our country. Our country is really divided.”
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Charles O’Brien of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on college students failing to recognize alcohol as a drug.
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Villanova University has named its first female business school dean, an industrial and organizational psychologist who is senior associate dean of the business school at the University of Maryland at College Park. Joyce E.A. Russell, who has been in her current role at the Robert H. Smith School of Business since 2015 and served as vice dean for three years before that, will take over at Villanova’s business school on Aug. 1.
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Liberal education has many critics these day, so how can its purveyors and supporters better defend it? That was the subtext of several panels at a conference on whether liberal education needs saving Friday at the University of Chicago. For Julie Reuben, the Charles Warren Professor of Education at Harvard University, liberal education doesn’t need saving as much as it needs “reviving,” starting with a redefining of terms.
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Patrick McGovern of the Penn Museum says, “All indications are that ancient peoples, [including those at this Chinese dig site], applied the same principles and techniques as brewers do today.”
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Apollo Yong, one of many college-bound students nationwide who were left in wait-list limbo this spring, is headed to the University of Virginia. The 17-year-old from Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Va., was featured last month in a Washington Post report on how numerous students are forced to cope with the stress of competing in overtime for college admission. Yong had been admitted to U-Va. in January but placed on wait lists in March by the University of Chicago and Dartmouth College.
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Katherine Milkman of the Wharton School is cited for co-authoring a study about setting reminders to help remember tasks.