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Tune in to “The Happy Show” at the ICA
“Is this a giant monkey which I see before me, outside of the Institute of Contemporary Art?” you may have pondered as you walked near 36th and Sansom streets.
Penn Study Documents Gender Pay Gap Among Stockbrokers
PHILADELPHIA – The excesses of Wall Street may be big news, but behind the headlines is another major story. When it comes to men and women stockbrokers, men take home bigger paychecks.
Penn Graduate Students Kara Cohen, Katie Murphy Selected as Schweitzer Fellows
PHILADELPHIA – Two University of Pennsylvania graduate students are among 16 from around the region selected as Greater Philadelphia Schweitzer Fellows for 2012-13.
Penn Partners With KIPP Schools to Promote College Completion in Underserved Communities
PHILADELPHIA -– The KIPP Foundation announced today that it will partner with the University of Pennsylvania in an effort to increase college-completion rates for underserved KIPP students nationwide.
Penn Employees Considering a Home Purchase, Energy Improvements Should Plan to Attend PHOS Seminar May 21
PHILADELPHIA – Penn Home Ownership Services invites all University of Pennsylvania and Penn Health System employees with an interest in purchasing homes, making improvements or reducing energy costs for their current residences to attend an informational program at 4 p.m., Monday, May 21, i
Graduate School of Education Welcomes Education Writers Association Conference to Penn
PHILADELPHIA –- Hundreds of education journalists will gather at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education for the 65thEducation Writers Association’s national seminar tomorrow through Saturday.
Black Cardiac Victims Less Apt to Receive CPR and Shocks to the Heart from Bystanders, Penn Study Shows
Black cardiac arrest victims who are stricken outside hospitals are less likely to receive bystander CPR and defibrillation on the scene than white patients, according to research that will be presented by a research team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania today at the annual meeting of
Jairo Moreno Named National Humanities Center Fellow
PHILADELPHIA – The National Humanities Center has appointed Jairo Moreno, an associate professor of music theory at the
Six Penn Students Receive U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholarships
PHILADELPHIA – Six University of Pennsylvania students have been awarded U.S. Department of State
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The New York Times
Europe has a leadership vacuum. How will it handle Trump?
Amy Gutmann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that Germany is front and center in the economic problems currently afflicting Europe.
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The Hill
Trust in court system at record low: Gallup
An October survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that the public’s trust in the U.S. Supreme Court has dropped to a record low.
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Los Angeles Times
Trump offers murky worldview ahead of second term, mixing dire warnings with rosy promises
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that Donald Trump is far more hyperbolic on average than traditional presidential candidates, who still routinely claim that they will do something alone that can’t be done without Congress.
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The New York Times
An epidemic of vicious school brawls, fueled by student cellphones
PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton says that many schools don’t have a playbook for addressing student violence or helping pupils engage more positively online, in part because few researchers are studying the issue.
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The New York Times
N.Y.C. grocery prices are high. Could city-owned stores help?
Andrew Lamas of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the logistics of running grocery stores are complicated and that New York City should examine different models like cooperatives.
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