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Penn’s Biden Center provided a landing spot for many of the president’s top aides

PHILADELPHIA — When the University of Pennsylvania launched a think tank named for Joe Biden in 2017, it didn’t just create a prestige institution tied to the man who had just left the vice president’s office.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Dan Rodricks: An end to racism? Ben Jealous believes it will happen

Since his unsuccessful run for Maryland governor against Larry Hogan in 2018, Benjamin Todd Jealous, former president of the NAACP, has kept up the pace he established as a scholar, activist and entrepreneur before trying politics. He served as president of People for the American Way, has a professorship at…

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Don’t ban chatbots in classrooms — use them to change how we teach

Will chatbots that can generate sophisticated prose destroy education as we know it? We hope so.

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Republicans target Penn after classified documents found in Biden’s former office

A University of Pennsylvania think tank tied to President Joe Biden is facing one of the first inquiries from congressional Republicans as GOP lawmakers aim to use their new-found power in the U.S. House to investigate the Democratic president.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Penn denies allegations of foreign influence at Biden Center after classified documents were found

The University of Pennsylvania is denying allegations that the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a Washington, D.C., think tank and President Joe Biden's former office space, solicited money from foreign entities.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Colbert on Biden v Trump documents: ‘It’s comparing apples to orange-man’

Late-night hosts discuss the discovery of classified documents in one of Biden’s offices and McCarthy’s weak speakership

The Guardian - US

GOP urges ‘damage assessment’ after classified documents found at Biden office

WASHINGTON — Republicans are escalating their calls for swift federal action after the Justice Department announced that classified documents were found at the University of Pennsylvania office of President Joe Biden, arguing he should receive the same treatment as Donald Trump.

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Experts: Trump docs not like Biden docs

Trump's lawyers falsely affirmed they'd returned the documents, in violation of a subpoena. Biden's returned them

Salon

What to know about the new drug trial for Alzheimer's

PHILADELPHIA — A new drug designed to ward off Alzheimer's is being tested at more than 100 sites around the world, including the University of Pennsylvania.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Climate change charges up winter storms

Winter storms are a normal part of this time of year. Yet climate change is making them more severe

Salon

New flu defense in the works: 1 shot to protect against all 20 influenza viruses

Taking a new approach, based on the mRNA technology that proved effective against COVID-19, University of Pennsylvania researchers are working on the experimental vaccine.

Chicago Sun-Times

#TheyLied Malicious Prosecution / Abuse of Process / Emotional Distress Claim Can Go Forward

From Skinner v. Hadlock, decided Thursday by Judge Michael Baylson (E.D. Pa.): Skinner alleges that Hadlock falsely accused him of raping her in September 2018 while Hadlock was a graduate student in the University of Pennsylvania's Masters of Social Work program. Skinner, who was the program counselor at a housing-for-the-homeless…

Reason

Tell the Supreme Court: We still need affirmative action

Some conservatives would like to retire affirmative action because they claim it’s accomplished everything it set out to do. But it hasn’t. Not even close.

Chicago Sun-Times

Penn students end nearly 6-week encampment on College Green after their football game protest

PHILADELPHIA — A group of student protesters at the University of Pennsylvania ended a nearly six-week encampment on the College Green this weekend after they stormed Franklin Field during halftime of the Penn-Yale football game.

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Can learning about ghosts help us cope with pandemic losses? A Penn professor says yes

PHILADELPHIA — Justin McDaniel, a professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, teaches a popular course called "Gods, Ghosts and Monsters," a comparative religion course about death and the afterlife. He's long been fascinated with ghost stories — and why they fascinate us.

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Economy and Society, October 18, 2022: South Carolina to divest BlackRock funds over ESG

Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics.

Tribune News Service

With a marijuana pardon, Biden tries to light up voters he needs

The day after President Joe Biden decided to pardon marijuana smokers, the 79-year-old walked into a bookstore on the University of Pennsylvania campus with his granddaughter. One voice in the crowd outside shouted out: “Yo Joe, legalize that weed.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Philadelphia issues apology for decades-old prison experiments

PHILADELPHIA — The City of Philadelphia issued an apology Thursday for the unethical experiments a University of Pennsylvania faculty member of 50 years performed on Holmesburg Prison inmates between the 1950s and 1970s.

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The Independent UK

Philadelphia apologizes for experiments on Black inmates

The city of Philadelphia issued an apology more than four decades after unethical medical experiments were allowed to be performed on mostly Black inmates at the city's since closed Holmesburg Prison from the 1950s to the 1970s

Investors Business Daily

The First Female Black Ph.D. In Economics Overcame Impossible Odds

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander didn't just topple one hurdle. She smashed through several.

The Guardian - US

Republicans plan legal assault on climate disclosure rules for public companies

The SEC’s proposed new rules, which would require public corporations to disclose climate-related information, have been criticized by industry groups

Evening Standard

Musk’s ex-girlfriend auctions off mementos of relationship

Jennifer Gwynne began dating Musk while he was a science student at the University of Pennsylvania in 1994

Salon

Cable news – not social media – divides

Turns out that online news consumers are exposed to more opposing views, while TV news watchers rarely stray

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial: Want to attract more teachers to the profession? Pay them more

Oprah Winfrey said her fourth-grade teacher created a “spark for learning” and is why she had a talk show. Lin Manuel-Miranda said arts education “saved his life” and cited his sixth-grade music teacher. John Legend said his English teacher pushed him to apply for a scholarship to the University of…

The Guardian - US

Federal investigation follows retraction of five animal experimentation papers

Oversight review into US research on newborn piglets led by Prof William Armstead, which has been called ‘utterly reprehensible’

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