Penn in the News

Thirty years ago, Daniel Kmitta suffered his first of several major depressive episodes. He got help from his undergraduate college and, over time, learned how to manage his condition.

Jim Wilson of the Perelman School of Medicine is interviewed about the future of gene therapy and its potential.

Robin Stevens of the Nursing School is the subject of this article on her work studying what black and Hispanic youth are exposed when to using social media.

If you’re teaching at a four-year college or university, you may have had some training in the needs of your first-generation college students, many of whom have probably transferred to your institution from a community college. 

Scott MacConnell cherishes the memory of his years at Amherst College, where he discovered his future métier as a theatrical designer. But protests on campus over cultural and racial sensitivities last year soured his feelings. Now Mr.

Penn Law’s Paul Heaton is quoted on his work on the unconstitutionality of a county’s bail system in Texas.

Has the “massification” of higher education in China led to more or less inequality? That is the central question asked by Ka Ho Mok and Jin Jiang, who work in the department of sociology and social policy at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, in a new working paper, “Massification of Higher Education: Challenges for Admissions and Graduate Employment in China.”

Dean Pam Grossman of the Graduate School of Education writes about the disruptions caused by public education reformers.

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.