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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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As an undergraduate, Rose S. Perea never doubted her ability in physics. That changed in her master’s program. "The math just got super hard," she says. "I started questioning my performance compared to the other students and wondered whether I belonged in graduate school." Ms. Perea, who is Hispanic, had set her sights on a doctorate. She knew she had hurdles, like low GRE scores, and at New Mexico State University, she failed to pass a qualifying examination.
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Douglas Wallace of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about a mitochondrial replacement technique.
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While doing fieldwork in 2004, Laura Hamilton, now an associate professor of sociology at the University of California at Merced, observed how parents interacted with their college-age daughters during and after move-in day. Some parents -- those fussing over the arrangements of their daughter’s bedroom or making phone calls to the university to figure out when, exactly, their child should expect the campus shuttle to arrive each morning -- became a regular presence on the residence hall floor throughout the year.
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A survey conducted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center on what Philadelphians think about a Zika vaccine is cited.
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Undergraduate Sona Dadhania is highlighted for receiving the Science Ambassador Scholarship.
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Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School comments on stocks as risky investments.
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Amazon@Penn is included in a list of college pick-up destinations.
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The University of Wisconsin-Madison suspended its chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon after a member reported multiple instances of racist, anti-Semitic and anti-gay behavior, including one in which he said he was choked and called a racial slur. The fraternity, one of the biggest in the country with about 15,000 members and 200,000 alumni, drew national attention last year after a video of University of Oklahoma chapter members shouting a racist chant on a bus went viral.
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The Board of Curators of the University of Missouri System violated academic freedom in dismissing Melissa Click, a former assistant professor of communication studies at the Columbia campus, according to a new investigatory report by the American Association of University Professors. As a result, AAUP could vote to censure Mizzou’s administration at the association’s upcoming meeting.
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Mark Yim and May graduate Foster Collins of the School of Engineering and Applied Science are highlighted for developing a spherical robot arm with a spiral zipper joint.