BBC: How to avoid awkward work conversations
10 October 2018 Alison Green For the last 11 years, I’ve written a workplace advice column, answering people’s letters on everything from how to tell a manager your workload is too high to what to […]
Opinion
NPR: Why Public Service Loan Forgiveness Is So Unforgiving
October 17, 20189:27 AM ET CORY TURNER On the morning of Monday, Aug. 27, Seth Frotman told his two young daughters that he would likely be home early that day and could take them to […]
NPR: Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Dies At 65
October 15, 20186:34 PM ET BARBARA CAMPBELL RICHARD GONZALES Updated at 8:50 p.m. ET Paul Allen, who co-founded tech giant Microsoft with Bill Gates, died from complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in Seattle on Monday. He […]
‘Cancer in all forms is our enemy’
October 11, 2018 Lauren Hertzler Eric Sucar, Penn Medicine Photographers Since he took the reins of the Abramson Cancer Center in July 2017, there hasn’t been one day where Robert H. Vonderheide hasn’t felt a thrill. […]
NPR: FACT CHECK: Trump’s False Claims On ‘Medicare For All’
October 10, 20184:02 PM ET SCOTT HORSLEY USA Today published an opinion column by President Trump Wednesday in which the president falsely accused Democrats of trying to “eviscerate” Medicare, while defending his own record of […]
DATA SCIENCE Q&A WITH THE DEAN
LESA PETERSEN Patrick J. Wolfe became the Frederick L. Hovde Dean of the College of Science and Miller Family Professor of Statistics and Computer Science in 2017. He also holds a faculty appointment in electrical […]
BBC: Five myths about sexual assault
26 September 2018 Linda Geddes Barely a week goes by now without another case of rape or historic sex abuse being splashed across the news and picked over by critics. Yet misunderstanding about the nature […]
Economist Paul Romer, SB’77, PhD’83, wins share of Nobel Prize
Oct 8, 2018 Jack Wang Paul Romer, a University of Chicago alumnus and former faculty member, was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2018. The Royal Swedish […]
TRACKING MARINE PREDATORS
October 05, 2018 Adam Thomas Photos courtesy of Jack Musick and Scot Anderson The University of Delaware’s Aaron Carlisle, assistant professor of marine biosciences, was recently a co-author on a paper published in the Nature […]
NPR: Thousands Could Be Deported As Government Targets Asylum Mills’ Clients
September 28, 20184:46 PM ET AILSA CHANG NPR’s Planet Money has learned that more than 13,500 immigrants, mostly Chinese, who were granted asylum status years ago by the U.S. government, are facing possible deportation. As […]