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.

Student Katerina Girginova of the Annenberg School for Communication writes about social media’s impact on the Olympics.

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 after Yale University said it would keep John C. Calhoun's name on one of its residential colleges, the university announced Monday that it is creating a new committee that could lead to the name being removed.

Yana Kamberov of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about the production of sweat glands being connected to the production of hair.

One midnight near semester’s end on the skirts of Harvard Yard, music thumped and laughs rang out from a colonnaded, Greek-revival mansion, the sort usually seen in Hollywood fantasies about fraternal campus life.

A study by the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that just 36 percent of Americans could name all three branches of the U.S. government and 35 percent could only name one.

Last October, when Ryan A. Fournier was about a month into his first semester at Campbell University, he identified a weakness in Donald J. Trump’s candidacy for president: a lack of social-media outreach to college-age voters. An ambitious young conservative, Mr. Fournier is a staunch supporter of Mr. Trump. The student sees the real-estate mogul as a "man of the people" who knows how to create jobs and stem illegal immigration. So Mr.