Penn in the News

Guide: 12 Ways Grown-up, Non-students Can Go ‘Back-to-school’

 The Fisher Fine Arts Library, Arthur Ross Gallery, Science/Lightbulb café series, Kelly Writers House and Institute of Contemporary Art are suggested as locations and events adults can get into the back-to-school spirit.

For Students With a Mission, a Little Capital Goes a Long Way

 Student Derrius Quarles of the Graduate School of Education is highlighted as a co-founder of an online college financial aid platform called Million-Dollar Scholar.

Audio: New Jersey Inventor Unveils ‘Affordable’ Hydrogen-solar Home

 John Vohs of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is quoted about alternative energy.

Notre Dame President Stands Firm Amid Shifts in College Athletics

Exclusive: Temple President Declares ‘Best Week Ever” for University

If You Build It, They Will Come…Won’t They?

 When you think of a classic American college campus, you probably envision a set of pastoral images: a demure brick rowhouse crowned with a white steeple, a gargoyle perched on a limestone archway, a domed library on a sunlit grass quadrangle. Often far from cities or shielded from them by gates and walls, campuses exude a sense of refuge. Thomas Jefferson famously wanted the University of Virginia to resemble a kind of ‘‘academical village.’’

UC Sells Off Coal and Oil Sands Investments

The Return of the Sex Wars

A Study Finds Men Are Overconfident and Immodest – Which May Be Why They’re More Successful as Entrepreneurs

 Research co-authored by Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School that focused on entrepreneurial projects on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter is cited.

New Data Gives Clearer Picture of Student Debt

 An air of mystery has long surrounded student debt. We know the total number of borrowers and their combined debt — 40 million people owe $1.2 trillion — but beyond these headline numbers, the data has been frustratingly thin. Who borrows? Who defaults? Why are so many borrowers in distress? The answers have been unclear, leaving analysts and policy makers to prescribe remedies without an accurate diagnosis of the disease. But now the picture has become significantly sharper.