Penn in the News

In the summer of 2013, the journalist Jessica Luther watched news unfold on two alleged gang rapes involving college football players, one at Vanderbilt University and the other at the United States Naval Academy. She started poking around, searching for similar cases, and she was surprised at just how prevalent the pattern was, she says.

What some see as a celebration of culture through food, others see as a political statement, and an offensive one at that. Just slip an Israeli flag on a toothpick.

Post-doc Daniel Himmelstein of the Perelman School of Medicine is profiled and encourages researchers to read law about republishing online data sets.

A survey conducted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center comes less than a week after President Obama signed a GMO labeling bill into law.

Three months ago, Annie Reznik agreed to help lead a college-admissions experiment. Since then, the first executive director of the Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success has overseen the rollout of a new college-application platform shared by dozens of private and public colleges. Now that it’s up and running, a big question looms: Will the group’s controversial online system help more students, especially those from low-income families, get to college?

Geoff Marcy’s fall from grace at the University of California, Berkeley, last year was hard and swift. After allegations emerged that he’d serially harassed a number of female graduate students, and that Berkeley had investigated the matter but chosen not to immediately punish him, his fellow astronomers launched a public shaming campaign that forced his resignation within a matter of days.

Jonah Berger of the Wharton School comments on the popularity of YouTube stars and livestreaming the upcoming Olympics.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on the impact of factcheck.org, the non-partisan website she co-founded.

Either by choice or when required to do by state legislation, colleges in recent years have moved toward a policy of affirmative consent.

James Serpell of the School of Veterinary Medicine is quoted about what it means to adhere to breed standards.