Penn in the News

The U.S. News and World Report College Rankings: A Public vs. Private Dilemma

Lernen ja, Abschluss nein

 Ezekiel Emanuel of the Wharton School and the Perelman School of Medicine and Christian Terwiesch of Wharton are quoted about massive open online courses.

College Rankings That Matter: Hottest Students, Most Weed, Ugliest Campus

 Princeton’s at the top of the U.S. News and World Report list of best colleges, again, followed by Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, and University of Chicago. Some people surely agree. Others think the ranking system is flawed, biased, irrelevant, or perhaps all of the above.

Setting the Record Straight Regarding Student Enrollment at HBCUs

 Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education co-writes an article tackling student enrollment at historically black colleges and universities.

Think Out Loud

 Salamishah Tillet of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for her book Sites of Slavery and her work with fighting sexual violence against women.

Why UC Regents’ Next Meeting Is Likely to Upset Some Jewish Groups

Video: Charting A New Course For Growth

 Karl Ulrich of the Wharton School and Dean Vijay Kumar of the School of Engineering and Applied Science talk about the importance of innovation.

Lincoln U. To Unveil “Toni Morrison Society” Bench, Honoring African American History

 Lincoln University will become the second local site of a “Bench by the Road,” part of an effort launched by the Toni Morrison Society in 2006 to highlight African American history locally and abroad. The bench, to be unveiled by The Friends of Hosanna at Lincoln University and the society, will be dedicated at noon on Friday, Sept. 18, at the Hosanna A.U.M.P. Church, on Baltimore Pike near the front entrance to the historically black university’s campus, 1570 Baltimore Pike.

This Is Your Brain on Porn

Mary Anne Layden of the Perelman School of Medicine is interviewed about the copious amount of pornography the Internet has enabled.

Can Amyloid Spread Between Brains?

 John Trojanowski of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on the findings of a small study whose results hint at the possible transmissibility of Alzheimer’s disease.