Penn in the News

The University of New Hampshire’s campaign to prevent sex assault is based on two programs: "Bringing in the Bystander" was developed in 2002 as an in-person training program that the university’s Prevention Innovations Research Center sells to colleges. The program teaches people to safely intervene when a situation looks as if it could become dangerous, and it is aimed at increasing their willingness to do so. The other program, "Know Your Power," is a newer social-marketing effort that uses 26 images depicting ­real-life scenarios to promote bystander behaviors.

A Maryland university president resigned on Monday, weeks after a furor erupted on campus over faculty firings and a student newspaper article that quoted the president as comparing struggling freshmen to bunnies that should be drowned or shot. The board of the university, Mount St. Mary’s in Emmitsburg, about 60 miles northwest of Baltimore, announced that the dean of the business school would replace the departing university leader, Simon Newman, as acting president effective immediately. Mr.

Joseph Bavaria of the Perelman School of Medicine is highlighted for being elected president of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons for 2016.

The Grit Scale, developed by Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences, is featured.

The University of California at Berkeley is investigating a cyberattack on a university computer system that holds financial data for 80,000 people, from students and alumni to faculty and vendors. The San Francisco Bay area university said on Friday that there is no evidence any information has been stolen, but that it has notified potential victims of the data breach, which include about half of the school’s current students, two-thirds of its active employees, and over 10,000 vendors who work with the school.

Kathy DeMarco Van Cleve of the School of Arts & Sciences writes about recognizing and honoring screenwriters at the Academy Awards.

As a political-science professor at Central Washington University, Mathew S. Manweller has a personal stake in protecting academic freedom. When the Legislature began this year’s session, Mr. Manweller, who is also a state representative, proposed a bill calling for Washington to strongly defend free speech in two of academe’s most contentious debates, over trigger warnings and microaggressions. Throughout the nation, instructors are under pressure from students to provide them with trigger warnings ­— advance notice of instructional material that might cause them emotional distress.

Adding their voices to the “Black Lives Matter” movement, dozens of La Salle University students demonstrated for more than an hour on campus Monday, also calling on their own university to do more. “It’s hard to find a place called home,” said Ariana Branford, 21, a senior from Reading and president of the African American Student League on campus.

MaryFrance McCourt is featured as the new vice president for finance and treasurer of the University.

Launching a successful transnational education offering in China is a holy grail for some Western university leaders -- and recent research may help map a path to this elusive prize.