Penn in the News

MBA student Anastasia D’Orazio and Andrew Barnell, and undergraduates Max Reed and Anders Larson are highlighted for participating in the 18^th Angel Venture Fair.

Kent Smetters of the Wharton School answers questions about annuities and planning for retirement.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center shares her thoughts on presidential candidate Donald Trump’s popularity.

The Rev. Peter M. Donohue wants to make one thing clear: He is not much of a basketball fan. Sure, he might go to a Los Angeles Lakers game when he’s on the West Coast. But only if his staff tells him it’s necessary for building alumni or donor relationships. Donohue is, however, a Villanova basketball fan. It’s hard not to be one when you are the president of the university, and you go to every home game, and you have a very visible seat near half court, and the students have a set cheer when they spot Father Peter.

Anjan Chatterjee of the Perelman School of Medicine says, “In cognitive neuroscience in general, we’re in a transition period between hypothesis- or theory-driven investigations and data-driven investigations.”

Joni Finney of the Graduate School for Education comments on college affordability.

Despite decades of fervent student protests that reached a peak last fall, the president of Yale announced on Wednesday that the university would keep the name of a residential college honoring the 19th-century politician and white supremacist John C. Calhoun. The president, Peter Salovey, also said the university would name its two new residential colleges for Anna Pauline Murray and Benjamin Franklin. The selection of Ms.

Americans with college degrees are to the left of the majority of Americans who lack a college degree. And a new study by the Pew Research Center shows that those who have attended graduate school are even farther to the left than those who have only an undergraduate degree. The relationship between education levels and politics isn’t modest, but it is significant, the study found.

Howard University is refunding more than a hundred soon-to-be graduates half of the tuition they paid out of pocket this semester, an effort to encourage more students to complete their education on time. “We talk about student debt a lot in this country, but a part of the problem is students taking five or six years to graduate,” said Howard President Wayne A.I. Frederick. “The goal here was, in part, to give some incentive to finish on time.

New York medical schools and their competitors offshore are clashing over a precious resource: the opportunity for students to watch and learn from doctors in hospitals. Students in their third and fourth year of medical school need clinical clerkships so they can see how doctors diagnose patients, perform surgeries and deliver babies.