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We Know You Hate ‘Moist.’ What Other Words Repel You?
Mark Liberman of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for exploring the concept of word aversion, particularly about the word “moist.”
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Postdoc Now, Think Later
Every postdoctoral fellow has probably heard a “permadoc” joke or two, making light of the increasingly long stints recent Ph.D.s spend in such positions. But has the postdoc become the default for graduates -- even for those for whom it doesn’t necessarily make sense? Has it become a holding pattern rather than a bridge to more permanent work? A new study in Science by two business professors suggests that’s the case and calls for increased attention to career planning among students, mentors, graduate schools and those funding postdocs.
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Harvard Will Bar Members of Single-Gender Clubs From Official Leadership Roles
Members of single-gender social clubs at Harvard University will be banned from holding leadership positions in official campus organizations or on sports teams beginning in the fall of 2017, the university announced Friday. Harvard’s president, Drew Gilpin Faust, the first woman to hold the position, wrote a letter to the university describing the changes:
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Keeping an Open Mind
Many scientists take a certain pride in the objective nature of their work. The data are the data, no matter who’s conducting the experiment. But growing body of research suggests that’s not necessarily true, and that personalities can influence the science. A new study builds on that notion, suggesting that one’s “transdisciplinary orientation,” a personal quality predisposing one to engage in cross-disciplinary work, can affect the quality of interdisciplinary research -- good or bad.
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Barcelona Rising
Surely few laboratories can match the views from Barcelona Biomedical Research Park on the city’s busy beachfront. From the sun-dappled balconies of the modernist €120 million ($138 million) institute, scientists can watch boats sail out from the Olympic Port, swimmers take a dip in the Mediterranean and tourists zip along the seafront promenade on motorized scooters.
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Here Is the Surprising Winner of Last Week’s UberPITCH Event
MBA students Siddharth Shah, Shashwata Narain of the Wharton School and graduate student Alexander David of the School of Engineering and Applied Science are featured for creating Fermento, a technology that speeds up the fermentation process in beer production. This was technology was develop in the lab of David Issadore of Engineering.
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Timing of U. Of Iowa’s Alert to Students of a Possible Hate Crime Fuels Racial Tensions
Monday night the Iowa City Police Department received a report from a black University of Iowa student who said he had been attacked in a potential hate crime outside an off-campus bar. Three days later the university sent to students a campus-crime alert by email and text. That response followed standard crime-alert protocol, but it incited fierce criticism from students who viewed the reaction as unacceptably delayed.
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Rivers Can Resist Floods From Climate Change
Douglas Jerolmack of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about a study he co-authored on the effect of heavy rainfalls on river erosion.
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Video: Penn Dedicates New Trauma Center in Slain Doctor’s Honor
President Amy Gutmann says, “We live in a time that calls for heroes whose lives bear testimony to everything that is kind, that is brave, that is selfless.”
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Wharton M.B.A.s Get More Training in Data and Decision-making
Dean Geoffrey Garrett, Eric Bradlow, Adam Grant and MBA student Daniel McAuley of the Wharton School comment on the school offering business analytics.