Penn in the News

Kermit Roosevelt of the Law School comments on President Obama nominating replacement for the late Justice Scalia on the Supreme Court.

The research of Donald B. Keim and Olivia S. Mitchell of the Wharton School is quoted.

Brian Rosenwald of the School of Arts & Sciences writes about President Obama potentially nominating a new Supreme Court justice.

They call themselves “hotelies”: students and alumni of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, the world’s oldest undergraduate program devoted to the hospitality industry and, many say, the best. The school is considered the Harvard of hospitality programs, consistently topping best-of lists and rankings. Its graduates, school officials like to say, do not just run individual hotels, they own entire hotel chains or groups of restaurants.

On Friday, faculty at Mount St. Mary’s asked, by an 87-to-3 vote, for university President Simon Newman to resign by 9 a.m. Monday. The time came and went. And the university was closed Monday because of a snowstorm, so professors did not meet to discuss their reaction to Newman’s decision. They will later in the week, said David McCarthy, secretary to the faculty. Newman was on campus for a student rally Monday morning and thanked the students for their support.

John Williams thinks every student should have a mentor, someone who can act as counselor, sounding board, advice giver -- and maybe, if the student is lucky, someone who can open doors in the working world.

David Issadore of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and students Shashwata Narain, Alexander David, and Siddharth Shah are featured for the students’ creation of a new fermentation process that can be used for beer production.

Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland is in turmoil over its leadership, with a nearly unanimous vote by faculty calling on president Simon Newman to resign by Monday morning, and some of his supporters planned a rally Monday morning to counter that. 

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is quoted about how Donald Trump has ‘“hijacked” political correctness to justify his use of personal attacks.

Officials in the eastern Chinese city of Ningbo, which houses the world’s largest port by cargo tonnage, are tapping the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to boost logistics education and research. The Ningbo local government and MIT said Tuesday they are working together to establish the Ningbo Supply Chain Innovation Institute China, or NSIIC, the sixth such research center run by MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics and the first of its kind in China. Others include centers in Colombia, Malaysia, Spain and the U.S.