Penn in the News

Elizabeth Turk-Karan of the Perelman School of Medicine writes about people suffering from PTSD.

Three professors at the University of Texas at Austin are suing the institution over its response to the state’s new campus carry law, which explicitly permits licensed, concealed weapons on campus. The law is supposed to go into effect Aug. 1 on public university campuses in the state, and a year later at community colleges. Specifically, the professors seek the right to ban guns from their classrooms -- something the university has maintained would put it out of compliance with the new law.

Katherine Milkman of the Wharton School co-authors an article about the impact of preparing a backup plan.

Penn police officers Ryan James and Gary Cooper are highlighted for replacing a stolen iPad for a child suffering with a rare form of leukemia.

The vast majority of freshmen expect their colleges to provide a welcoming environment for people from diverse religious and nonreligious perspectives, according to findings from a new survey released this week. But those same students may not be so welcoming themselves. Researchers from New York University and North Carolina State University joined with Interfaith Youth Core to conduct the national study at 122 institutions last year.

Faculty members at Vassar College generally agree that teaching five classes per year makes it hard to keep up with research and the one-on-one interaction that students expect. Many professors also worry that students are taking on too many courses at one time. So a new proposal to address the issue -- shrinking the teaching load to four classes per year while adding a new student supervisory component, and cutting the number of units students need to graduate -- has attracted significant faculty support.

Danielle Bassett of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is profiled for her work on dynamic network neuroscience.

Richard Berk of the School of Arts & Sciences is profiled for his criminology research.

Penn and Penn Medicine are included in a list of partners working with Green City.

Hundreds of people are expected to attend a campus vigil Monday for Nicolas Leslie, a 20-year-old student at the University of California at Berkeley, who was killed in the terrorist attack on Nice, France, last week. Leslie was one of 84 people who died when a man drove a truck into a crowd of people in the French Riviera who had been watching fireworks. The man then opened fire on the crowd. Another 200 people were injured, including three Berkeley students.