Penn in the News

Maurice Schweitzer of the Wharton School co-writes an article about a better way for Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte to apologize.

Dual-career programs have become widely seen as vital in faculty recruiting. To get one half of a faculty couple, a college needs to offer a good opportunity to the spouse, the theory goes. Colleges do this in a variety of ways, sometimes going so far as to authorize new lines in some departments so that both halves of a couple have a reason to move. But other institutions do relatively little to help. Much of the discussion about dual-career issues in academe has assumed that these efforts are important in recruiting both male and female academics.

Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for popularizing the term “grit.”

Doctoral candidate Amanda Washington and Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education write about what is leading to more students to enroll in historically black colleges and universities.

Jeanmarie Perrone of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on the potential impact of a new prescription drug-monitoring database in Pennsylvania.

Diversifying the professoriate has long been a priority on many campuses, and such goals have only grown more urgent in light of recent national and local discussions about race. Yet college and university faculties have become just slightly more diverse in the last 20 years, according to a new study from the TIAA Institute. Most importantly, as faculty jobs have become more stratified with the growth of non-tenure-track positions over the same period, most gains for underrepresented minority groups have been in the most precarious positions. That is, not on the tenure track.

Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School co-writes an op-ed reviewing the Affordable Care Act and improvements that could be made.

Classes begin Tuesday at the University of Virginia, and students who returned to campus over the weekend learned of grim news to start the academic year: Authorities say a female student was sexually assaulted at knifepoint by an assailant who remains at large. The university’s chief of police distributed a message to all students about the attack, which occurred early Saturday in a residential area near the Charlottesville campus.

Mauro Guillén of the Wharton School talks about international trade and the modern economy.

Michael Thase of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on research that found that Instagram filters can be analyzed to screen for depression.