Penn in the News

Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences speculates on Donald Trump and narcissistic personality disorder.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is quoted about the role of the media in how the presidential candidates are illustrated to viewers.

The number of colleges and universities subject to increased financial oversight by the federal government slid to 513 in June, from 528 three months earlier, according to an updated list posted to the U.S.

Roy Hamilton of the Perelman School of Medicine and Anna Wexler of the Center for Neuroscience and Society are quoted about transcranial direct current stimulation.

Ilene Rosen of the Perelman School of Medicine says, “The best temperature for great sleep is between 60 and 68.”

When the filmmaker Ken Burns and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough asked David Levering Lewis to make a video criticizing Donald J. Trump, Mr. Levering Lewis thought it was "a jolly good idea." With a friend recording the video on his iPhone, Mr. Levering Lewis remarked that Mr. Trump’s staying power derives from "free association of reckless solutions to immigration, domestic terror, and whatever else comes to mind, along with verifiably absurd reiterations of disparaging untruth."

The Turkish government’s post-coup demand for the resignations of 1,500 university deans appears to be a blanket measure that will allow for case-by-case examinations of political loyalty, Turkish experts on the country said on Wednesday. The government has dismissed four presidents, or rectors — the heads of Dicle, Gazi, Yalova, and Yildiz Technical universities, Turkish press reports said.