Penn in the News

Incoming Dean Frederick Steiner of the School of Design is profiled.

Undergraduate Marco Herndon of the School of Arts & Sciences writes an essay about LGBTQ equality issues in Peru.

Student Deren Temel of the Graduate School of Education writes about varying visions for developing higher education in Africa.

Mathias Basner of the Perelman School of Medicine shares how he will study the effects of space on astronauts. 

Kate Quinn of the Penn Museum is quoted about the preparation for “Legends of the Hidden Temple: Penn Museum Edition.”

Expansion of higher education systems around the world is likely to continue, according to a study that found a strong correlation between opening universities and significantly increased economic growth. An analysis of data on 14,870 higher education institutions in 78 countries over six decades, presented at the annual conference of the Royal Economic Society, reveals that doubling the number of universities in a region results in a 4.7 percent increase in gross domestic product per capita in that region within five years, on average.

The N.C.A.A. may soon take a more proactive role in using its power to withhold athletic events from states whose laws are seen as discriminatory, the chairman of the Division I board of directors said Thursday.

Just one week before North Carolina passed a bill restricting transgender access to bathrooms at public colleges in the state, a college president in New York City announced his institution would be moving in exactly the opposite direction. Bill Mea, acting president of the Cooper Union, informed his campus via email that soon all the college's bathrooms will be gender neutral.

Within two minutes of Villanova's men's basketball victory over Kansas on Saturday night, the Rev. Peter M. Donohue received 280 text messages from alumni and other excited fans, looking forward to the Final Four. "Houston, here we come." "God bless you and the entire Nova community." "How can I get tickets?" The Villanova University president couldn't answer right away. He was busy hugging team cocaptain Ryan Arcidiacono, a moment captured on national television.

In fairness to the Modern Language Association and other makers of popular academic style guides, citing sources -- if always tedious -- was once relatively straightforward: journal articles like this, books like that. But the proliferation of media sources -- especially electronic ones -- in recent years has made writing citations confusing at best (and purgatorial at worst).