Penn in the News

Jonathan Wood and student Kerrie Tiedemann of the School of Veterinary Medicine are featured for using new 3-dimensional models to help understand canine brains.

Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business received a lot of global attention after saying it would make its two-year M.B.A. program free starting this fall. It also got a lot more applicants than it bargained for.

Temple University will crack down on underage drinking and partying in off-campus housing, partly in response to concerns from neighbors who have long complained about rowdy behavior affecting their North Philadelphia community. "This can't go on any longer," Temple president Neil D. Theobald said. The new campaign, announced by Theobald on Tuesday, includes steep fines for underage drinkers and others violating alcohol-related laws.

One in four students have to enroll in remedial classes their first year of college, costing their families nearly $1.5 billion, according to a study released Wednesday by Education Reform Now, a think tank. Colleges often require students with weak academic records to take courses to help them catch up to the rest of their classmates, but those remedial classes don’t count toward a degree. Not only do students have to pay for remediation, they can end up paying more in tuition and fees because those courses often delay them from graduating on time.

Sarah Paoletti of the Law School is mentioned for leading a hearing focused on the detention of immigrant children and families.

Ann Weaver Hart, former president of Temple University, is facing pressure to resign from her post as president of the University of Arizona because of her role at a for-profit university, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. A group of legislators have called out Hart for serving on the board of DeVry Education Group, a for profit university company, saying it detracts from her work at the University of Arizona. Students and faculty have asked her to step down from the DeVry board, according to the Chronicle.

Dorothy Roberts of the Law School and the School of Arts & Sciences is interviewed about racial disparities in medical treatment.

It’s that time of year again, when high-school seniors receive their college acceptances and sift through financial-aid offers to pick the place where they are going to spend the next four years in college. It’s also the time when seemingly everyone involved in the college search process — from the media to school counselors — are obsessed with the admissions decisions Harvard and dozens of other selective colleges and universities have made.

The central figure in a discredited Rolling Stone account of a gang-rape at the University of Virginia has been ordered to take part in a deposition for a federal libel lawsuit filed against the magazine by an associate dean at the school, the first time she’ll give a sworn statement about her allegations. U.S. District Court Judge Glen E. Conrad has ordered the former U-Va. student known as “Jackie” to participate in interviews related to the $10 million lawsuit U-Va. associate dean Nicole Eramo has filed against the magazine.

Raina Merchant and student Benjamin Ranard of the Perelman School of Medicine are quoted about researching Yelp reviews of hospitals.