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From street food in Thailand to a bakery in a Syrian refugee camp to how one scientist uses state of the art pollen analysis to track the origins of honey (and also to solve cold murder cases), Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio goes anywhere and everywhere to ask questions and get answers about cooking, food, culture, wine, farming, restaurants, literature, and the lives and cultures of the people who grow, produce, and create the food we eat.

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Students and faculty at Temple University line up outside Mitten Hall for free mumps vaccinations. The university scheduled two vaccination clinics after a mumps outbreak sickened more than 100. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Mumps outbreak sends Temple students, staff lining up for free MMR vaccines

More than a hundred Temple University students have come down with the mumps over the last month. The school is offering two free clinics this week.

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N.J. Gov. Murphy pledges to make higher education more accessible, affordable

Announcing his statewide plan for higher education Tuesday, which he said the state has lacked for years, Gov. Murphy emphasized the need among students for work experience.

7 years ago

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How admissions really work: If the college admissions scandal shocked you, read this

There are lots of legal ways that wealthy students get into America's top schools.

7 years ago

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Democratic Pa. state senators propose student loan debt relief

Three Pennsylvania state senate Democrats are launching a plan to help people with student loan debt.

7 years ago

A bill package moving rapidly through the legislature aims to get Pennsylvanians into higher-paying skilled industries, like construction. But some economists suggest lawmakers need to do more if they want to improve the labor market. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
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Can a slate of technical education bills help Pennsylvanians?

Pa.'s Democrats and Republicans have come to a rare detente on one economic issue: boosting career and technical education in a bid to get people into higher-paying jobs.

7 years ago

President Trump speaks before signing an executive order Thursday requiring colleges to certify that their policies support free speech as a condition of receiving federal research grants.
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NPR
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Trump and universities in fight over free speech, federal research funding

The president promised to do something about what he called a political climate on liberal college campuses that chills discourse.

7 years ago

Students walk past Samuel Paley Library on the Temple University campus, where a student died of a drug overdose on Dec. 1.
Health

Temple will hold free MMR vaccine clinics amid mumps outbreak

The university will have two walk-in clinics next week to offer the measles, mumps, and rubella, or MMR, vaccine — at no charge — to members of the school community.

7 years ago

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Harvard profits from photos of slaves, lawsuit claims

Tamara Lanier says "Papa Renty" is the patriarch of her family and that Harvard is using those photos without permission and profiting from photos taken by a racist professor.

7 years ago

Registered nurse Nicole Rodriguez draws a dose of mumps vaccine at the Temple student health center. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Mumps outbreak at Temple University up to 74 cases, but school closing unlikely

In the face of a rising number of mumps cases, Temple University officials don't plan to shut the school. They are considering providing booster shots at no charge.

7 years ago

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Radio Times
Education

How the college admissions system favors the privileged and disadvantages most everyone else

Even before dozens of parents were charged with paying bribes to universities all over the country, the university system has always been rigged to favor some over others.

Air Date: March 20, 2019

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In this March 10, 2018, file photo Saint Joseph's head coach Phil Martelli directs his team during the first half of an NCAA college basketball semifinal game against Rhode Island in the Atlantic 10 Conference tournament in Washington. Saint Joseph's fired Martelli on Tuesday, March 19, 2019, after 24 seasons. The 64-year-old Martelli became head coach in 1995 after 10 years as an assistant.  (Alex Brandon/AP Photo, File)
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After 24 years, men’s basketball coach Phil Martelli out at St. Joe’s

In 2003-2004, he was named AP coach of the year after leading the Hawks to an undefeated season.

7 years ago

Registered nurse Nicole Rodriguez draws a dose of mumps vaccine at the Temple student health center. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Why
Health

Down in the mumps: Why Temple students got the virus decades after development of a vaccine

Temple University's mumps outbreak started just before spring break earlier this month. Why would there be an outbreak of an illness we've had a vaccine for since the 1960s?

Air Date: March 18, 2019

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Shippensburg brews up courses to train Pa.’s craft beer workforce

In 2011, its economic impact on the state was just over $1 billion. By 2017, that figure grew to more than $6 billion.

7 years ago

Bria Blauvelt rehearses with the newly formed Whistling Orchestra of Philadelphia. She traveled from her home in Egg Harbor Township for the opportunity to put her talent to work with a group. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Will whistle for work: Orchestra whistles tribute to Philly’s labor history

Temple art gallery has commissioned a UK artist to compose and assemble an orchestra of local whistlers in Philadelphia.

7 years ago

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Locust Walk on the University of Pennsylvania campus. (Ximena Conde/WHYY)
Education

Bribery scandal involving ex-Penn coach has students questioning admissions process

Penn students react to the school’s former basketball coach taking $300,000 to save a spot on the team for an unqualified player.

7 years ago

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