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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Last week, Pennsylvania State University ordered its chapter of Kappa Delta Rho fraternity to shut down after a two-month suspension for allegedly posting photos of nude women, some of whom appeared to be unconscious, on a private Facebook page. Reports like these have become depressingly familiar. In just the spring semester of 2015, 133 fraternity and sorority chapters at 55 U.S. colleges were shut down, suspended, or otherwise punished after alleged offenses including excessive partying, hazing, racism, and sexual assault, according to reports compiled by Bloomberg.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center talks about including viable candidates from all political parties in presidential debates.
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Ask any U.S. recruiter: Competition for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) talent is getting fierce. Benefiting big from that trend are foreign-born college graduates, who are seeing fast wage gains as they help American employers fill those hot jobs. Among full-time wage and salary workers in the U.S.
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To test a potential cure for hepatitis B, Benitec Biopharma Ltd. could have infected as many as 50 chimpanzees with the liver disease, then given them the drug and watched what happened. Instead, the Australian company turned to a U.K. startup for “livers on a chip” contaminated with the virus.
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Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School shares his thoughts on the status of the current stock market in comparison to the past.
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Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School talks about the outlook for U.S. stocks and the economy.
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At most colleges, if you're found responsible for sexual assault, you may be suspended. But at Stanford University, you'll likely be booted off campus permanently: Starting this fall, officials recommend making expulsion the default punishment for sexual assault.
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Susan Wachter of the Wharton School comments on the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department.
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The University of California at San Diego received a $100 million pledge for its graduate school of management to help recruit faculty and provide scholarships. The school is already named for the donors, Evelyn and Ernest Rady, who gave $30 million in 2004 to create the Rady School of Management and almost $10 million more since then.
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Ivy League colleges once again disappointed tens of thousands of teenagers as they accepted a lower percentage than ever -- even as they encouraged more to apply. Harvard University accepted a record-low 5.3 percent of hopefuls after attracting 37,307 applicants as it stepped up recruiting with a social-media campaign. The previous year, the figure was 5.9 percent.