Penn in the News

Kermit Roosevelt of the Law School comments on the process of replacing the late Supreme Court Justice Scalia.

Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli is quoted about Penn’s economic impact report.

Emily Conant of the Perelman School of Medicine discusses 3-D mammograms.

The University of Massachusetts at Amherst issued a shelter-in-place order Thursday evening after getting reports of a hostile armed man in a dormitory on campus. A spokesperson for the university did not immediately respond to a request for more information Thursday evening, but university officials had warned students and others on campus, through social media, to stay where they were.

An interview with Caitlyn Jenner, hosted by SPEC, is featured.

David Skeel of the Law School is quoted.

Only about 29 percent of completed medical trials conducted at major American academic centers lead to published or reported results within two years, according to one of the most detailed analyses of the problem. The findings, published on Wednesday in BMJ, suggest that universities and their funders still are falling well short on a major yardstick of open science and of responsibility to participating patients. "The academic institutions are doing very little about this — nothing, in fact," said a lead author, Harlan M. Krumholz, a professor of medicine at Yale University.

Matt Blaze of the School of Engineering and Applied Science shares his skepticism of commentators who suggest that it is easy to develop a new operating system that the FBI requires.

David Asch of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School co-authors an article about the length of physician shifts and whether or not that impacts their ability to treat patients.

Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School comments on Americans living to 100 years old and the ways their finances will be supported.