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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Peter Decherney of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about the virtual-reality films he creates with students. “In an immersive experience, you have to give up a lot of control. I compare it to a museum visit,” he said. “Spectators have to become more active in the process.”
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Meeta Kumar and other Counseling and Psychological Services staffers spoke about their efforts to increase access to mental health care on Penn’s campus. To cut wait times in half, administrators studied data and student complaints, empowered frontline employees, and helped counselors balance their caseloads.
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The Law School’s John Hollway weighed in on required wellness courses in higher education. Speaking to the importance of self-care for law students, Hollway said, “it is hard for a lawyer to meet your ethical responsibilities to take care of your clients and your cases if you are in a crisis.”
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On a list of most influential books, PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts’ Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty was described as an “interdisciplinary tour de force” that contains “more than a few lessons for our current moment.”
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Victor Mair of the School of Arts and Sciences discussed traditional and modern methods for teaching Mandarin, noting that learning the spoken language is significantly easier than learning hundreds of written characters.
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Ryan Baker of the Graduate School of Education and Valerie Ross of the School of Arts and Sciences discussed the benefits and challenges of using AI in the classroom.
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Penn landscape planner Chloe Cerwinka discussed her work advocating for more bird-friendly architecture on campus.
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The Graduate School of Education’s Marybeth Gasman discussed the disconnect between universities’ messaging on diversity and the realities of their hiring practices and treatment of faculty of color.
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The School of Arts and Sciences’ Stewart Varner explained that “digital humanities” isn’t technically a field on its own. “But,” said Varner, “it is often treated as such by people who consider themselves digital humanists as well as those who adamantly do not.”
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The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults by Frances Jensen of the Perelman School of Medicine is reviewed.