Penn in the News

The world’s largest scientific journal, the open-access giant PLOS ONE, is feeling some pullback. Last year the free site published 10 percent fewer papers than it did two years ago. Its impact factor — a measure that uses citations to track its influence — has been on a five-year slide. Rather than signaling a failure of the open-access movement, however, the declines are looking like the byproduct of a broader victory in a hard-fought campaign. More and more, major publishers are creating their own open-access journals, with articles freely available to anyone.

Vice President Marie Witt of Business Services is quoted about Amazon opening a new pickup location on campus.

Late-night infomercials aren’t the only venue where companies try to lure consumers with money-back guarantees. Now some upstart online-education providers are making the same promise. Udacity, a Silicon Valley-backed provider of MOOCs, announced on Wednesday a new program that guarantees its graduates will land a job in their field within six months of completing the program — or their money back. But there are plenty of caveats.

U.S. Representative Jackie Speier, a California Democrat, is no stranger to women’s issues and has previously advocated for more accountability for colleges and universities concerning campus sexual assaults. So it was perhaps unsurprising that she weighed in on a matter of increasingly public concern -- that of sexism in science and, in particular, some institutions’ tendency to quietly allow professors who sexually harass students to move on to other institutions.

Kenneth Shropshire of the Wharton School talks about the St. Louis Rams moving to Los Angeles.

Thomas Leung of the Perelman School of Medicine is interviewed about the concept of ear gauging.

African-American students feel less emotionally prepared for college than white students do, and they’re also more likely to keep their worries to themselves, according to the results of a national poll released on Wednesday. The survey marks one of the first efforts born of a partnership between the Jed Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the emotional well-being of college students, and the Steve Fund, a group focused on the mental health of minority students that was formed in 2014 to honor Stephen C.

Taylor Jones, a Ph.D. student in the School of Arts & Sciences, is cited for doing linguistics research on how millennials talk.

Rahul Kapur of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on those that would benefit from motion-control shoes.

The Wharton School was cited in a Bloomberg study on pay gaps between business school graduates.