5/18
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Student Athletes Report Success After College, But Sports Take Toll on Some Men
The latest results from a landmark survey of college graduates contains two big findings: Female college athletes make great employees; and male college football and basketball players pay a physical price later in life. The insights come courtesy of the Gallup–Purdue Index, a 2014 survey of 30,000 college graduates commissioned by Purdue President Mitch Daniels to discern the value of a college education. The upshot: It is less important where a student attends college than how involved they become with a mentor, a community or a long-term project.
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Are Too Many Choices Costing 401(k) Holders?
The research of Donald B. Keim and Olivia S. Mitchell of the Wharton School is quoted.
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MIT, China’s Ningbo Establish Supply Chain Education Center
Officials in the eastern Chinese city of Ningbo, which houses the world’s largest port by cargo tonnage, are tapping the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to boost logistics education and research. The Ningbo local government and MIT said Tuesday they are working together to establish the Ningbo Supply Chain Innovation Institute China, or NSIIC, the sixth such research center run by MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics and the first of its kind in China. Others include centers in Colombia, Malaysia, Spain and the U.S.
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The New Era of 30-day Fitness Challenges
Research on the fresh start effect co-authored by Katherine Milkman and Jason Riis and doctoral student Hengchen Dai of the Wharton School is cited.
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Are Too Many Choices Costing 401(k) Holders?
Donald Keim and Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School are mentioned for co-authoring a paper about the consequences of having too many choices for 401(k) holders.
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Obama Steps Up Pressure on College Accreditors
The Obama administration is stepping up pressure on the gatekeepers of billions of dollars in federal aid to crack down on colleges and universities where students fare poorly. Under Secretary of Education Ted Mitchell said he wants accreditors to “do more to address substandard and underperforming institutions” by focusing their efforts on weak schools while reviewing elite schools less rigorously. “Accreditors’ evaluations must increasingly put a premium on student outcomes,” Mr. Mitchell said in a memo laying out the second phase of an executive order announced in November.
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Tennis Players Get an Oxygen Fix
Kamen Simeonov of the Perelman School of Medicine is cited for co-authoring a paper that found lower lung cancer incidence among people living at high elevations.
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Mortimer Zuckerman Unveils $100 Million Science Scholarship Program
Mortimer Zuckerman, the media and real estate mogul, says he got the idea for his new $100 million science scholarship program at 5 o’clock one morning last summer when he couldn’t sleep.
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Why Business Schools Should Let Their Students Start Businesses
Karl Ulrich of the Wharton School pens an op-ed on the importance of merging the entrepreneurial journey with a strong curriculum.
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Bosses: Are You Too Gritty for Your Own Good?
Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences is mentioned for her research and definition of “grit.”