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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Political Happy Hour: April 25, 2016
Paul Rozin of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for studying the cultural evolution and psychological impact of foods.
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Cosby’s Criminal Case Can Resume After Court Rejects Appeal
David Rudovsky of the Law School comments on Bill Cosby’s legal troubles.
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Pentagon Looks to Reduce $4 Billion Energy Bill
Sarah Light of the Wharton School calls the Pentagon’s efforts to reduce the energy bill the “military environmental complex.”
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Video: With ‘Lemonade,’ Beyoncé Shows She’s an Artist in Control
Salamishah Tillet of the School of Arts & Sciences shares her thoughts on singer Beyoncé’s latest visual album and how she presents herself as an artist in control.
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The Top 5 Faculty Morale Killers
For nearly two-thirds of my 30-year career in higher education, I have served as a middle manager of one sort or another: department chair, dean, program director. For the other third, I have been middle-managed. Of course, even as a low-level administrator, I had plenty of people above me telling me what to do. I also had people below me who, given the chance, gladly told me what to do. The point is: I know what it’s like to be on both sides of that transaction.
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Confronting the Three HECM Reverse Mortgage Decisions
Jack Guttentag of the Wharton School writes about three decisions that need to be made when taking out a HECM reverse mortgage.
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Voorhees Student First Winner of New Award for Women in Science
Undergraduate Sona Dadhania is highlighted as the first recipient of the Science Ambassador Scholarship, which is funded by Cards Against Humanity.
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How Colleges Help Foreign Grad Students With Their Teaching
During her first semester as a graduate teaching assistant at Ohio University, Noora Mahboubeh was terrified. The Iranian doctoral student in chemical and biomolecular engineering often struggled to understand her students’ questions, and they weren’t always sympathetic to her difficulties with English. She started to gain confidence after enrolling in an English-language-improvement program, one of many services the university provides to international graduate students who want to communicate better as instructors. "I learned to not pretend that I can understand something," Ms.
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Listeners Got Active About Our Active Learning Stories
Some college lectures aren't just dull, they're ineffective. Discuss, people. You did. Our recent stories on the Nobel Prize winning Stanford physicist who's pushing for big changes in how large universities teach science to undergraduates generated lots of interest, comments, questions, shares and listens — online and on NPR One. Professor Carl Wieman is a huge proponent of ditching the large lecture in favor of evidence-based, active learning techniques.
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Defunding Diversity
On Thursday, both the Tennessee House of Representatives and Senate passed a bill to cut the entire $436,000 state appropriation for an office at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville that promotes diversity at the state's flagship university. Republican legislators in both houses have for months been criticizing the diversity office, which students have been rallying to support. On Tuesday, hundreds of students walked out of class to protest the bill, and many of the students sat on university walkways to block movement.