Penn in the News

Participants at Penn’s third AppitUp Demo Day are highlighted.

Simon Martin of the Penn Museum is featured for collaborating with Iron Maiden on their latest album, The Book of Souls.

Salamishah Tillet of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about the resurgence of singer Nina Simone in the media.

Samuel Freeman of the School of Arts & Sciences reviews Roger Scruton’s book Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left.

Marc Meredith and Matthew Levendusky of the School of Arts & Sciences comment on the upcoming republican primary in Pennsylvania.

David Yaden of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on being the lead author of a study, “The Overview Effect: Awe and Self-transcendent Experience in Space Flight.”

Momentum for passing a national free community college program may have slowed, but businesses and private donors are picking up the slack. While state movements to increase access to college in several localities, such as in Tennessee, have generated headlines across the country, many locally based “promise” scholarship programs are funded by private dollars and donations. At the Kalamazoo, Mich.-based W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Michelle Miller-Adams estimates there are about 80 local, place-based scholarship or promise-type programs across the country.

Penn’s newly completed Stephen A. Levin building which will house the psychology, biology and behavioral sciences departments is profiled.

Edna Foa of the Perelman School of Medicine questions the impact of service dogs paired with veterans with PTSD.

Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education answers listeners’ questions about the impact of living in “better” school district areas on a student’s college admissions chances.