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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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The Web Poet’s Society
Al Filreis of the School of Arts & Sciences and his modern poetry MOOC are highlighted.
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Audio: Marie Gottschalk: ‘Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics’
Marie Gottschalk of the School of Arts & Sciences talks about the United States prison system.
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New Safety Rules Announced for University of Virginia Fraternity Parties
New safety rules for fraternities at the University of Virginia would require at least three “sober and lucid” members to monitor behavior at parties, prohibit pre-mixed alcoholic drinks and implement guest lists to control entry to the houses during an event.
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Short-lived Transfer Degrees
Drexel University last January earned praise for expanding a transfer program that brings the university’s faculty members to local community colleges. But Drexel is phasing out the program less than a year later.
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Small K-12 Interventions Can Be Powerful
Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for administering an intervention that asked students to anticipate obstacles.
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Scientists Conjure Curves From Flatness
Toen Castle and Randall Kamien of the School of Arts & Sciences are quoted about developing a system of rules for making 3D shapes out of a 2D structure.
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Why More Women Are Burning Out in Their 20s and 30s
Adam Grant of the Wharton School is cited for discovering a number of different sub-sets of givers.
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Most Heart Attacks in Young Women Preventable – by Following 6 Habits
Chileshe Nkonde-Price of the Perelman School of Medicine says, “This is a real shift in the cardiovascular community to look upstream and to ask what can we do to prevent risk factors.”
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Online, Size Doesn’t Matter
Conventional wisdom (backed by many research studies) holds that students benefit from smaller classes. They receive more personal attention from instructors, who can spend more time evaluating each assignment turned in and can spend more time with each student. Many rankings systems reward colleges for small class sizes. Many potential undergraduates judge colleges on the availability of small classes.
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In China, Duke U. Navigates a Foreign Landscape
The road to China has not been smooth for Duke University.