5/18
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Tears Plus Piccolo Equal Internet
Jonah Berger of the Wharton School comments on viral Web sensations.
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Saving Pets Through Dialysis
J.D. Foster of the School of Veterinary Medicine is highlighted for working with the dialysis center at Penn’s Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital.
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Penn Student Brings Native American Rappers Together at Penn Museum
Student Talon Bazille Ducheneaux is featured for organizing an event at the Penn Museum titled “Modern Native Voices: The Medium of Hip Hop New Music with a Distinctly Native Beat.” Lucy Fowler Williams is also cited as a curator for the exhibit “Native American Voices: The People – Here and Now.”
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Rutgers to Offer Course at the Jersey Shore This Summer
If you need to take college courses in the summer, what better place to do it than the New Jersey shore? Rutgers University for the first time will offer 17 Jersey Shore-based courses, beginning this summmer, the university announced Monday. The decision followed a university poll of more than 4,500 students; 1,200 or nearly 27 percent said they’d be interested in earning credit for seaside learning.
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Little Support in D.C. for Comcast-Time Warner Deal
Kevin Werbach of the Wharton School comments on a Comcast-Time Warner merger.
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Higher Financial Literacy Would Benefit Everyone
Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School is cited for her research on financial literacy.
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Ideas for Philly’s Forgotten Underbelly
Stefan Al of the School of Design comments on city planning in Philadelphia.
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Rutgers Strikes Deal With Largest Faculty Union
Rutgers University and its largest faculty union have reached a tentative four-year agreement that, if approved by members, would include across-the-board raises and require the university to declare a fiscal emergency before freezing salaries. The agreement with the American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers, announced Thursday in messages sent to faculty, would cover nearly 4,700 of its members.
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Penn’s Gutmann to Receive Leadership Diversity Award
President Amy Gutmann is highlighted for receiving the Reginald Wilson Diversity Leadership Award from the American Council on Education.
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Haverford College President Resigns, Will Head the Met
Daniel H. Weiss, president of Haverford College, is leaving after only two years to head the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, officials announced Tuesday. His presidential tenure is the shortest in Haverford's 181-year history, though the previous leader, Stephen G. Emerson, wasn't there much longer - four years.