Penn in the News

David Fajgenbaum of the Perelman School of Medicine is featured as a patient and researcher of Castleman disease.

They spend more time studying, and they read more: Girls outperform boys in a variety of subjects worldwide, a study from earlier this year found. An extensive new survey, released by the teaching company Education First, comes to another surprising conclusion: In most of the countries that were surveyed, women were better than men at learning English as a non-native language. In total, 70 countries were part of the analysis.

Madeleine Joullié of the School of Arts & Sciences is highlighted for being a recipient of the John Scott Award.

Deborah Small of the Wharton School is quoted about the powerful impact of pictures and stories of Syrian refugees on Americans’ feelings.

Adrian Raine of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Perelman School of Medicine is featured for studying neurocriminology.

Fewer students are earning a college credential within six years of first enrolling in college, according to new data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The nonprofit clearinghouse is able to track 96 percent of students nationwide. It found an overall national completion rate of 52.9 percent for students who enrolled in the fall of 2009. That rate was down 2.1 percentage points from that of the previous year's cohort of students, according to the clearinghouse, and the rate of decline is accelerating.

Namni Goel of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on the effects of sleep deprivation on the body aside from fatigue.

President Obama wants college students at Missouri and elsewhere to organize and protest when it's important, but he's also worried about something else: students being too quick to shut down the other side and not listen. In a wide-ranging interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, he argued that on college campuses, students are too eager to avoid debate and discussion:

Starting in the mid-20th century, academe became idolized, in good times, as embodying everything right about America, and demonized, in bad times, as embodying everything wrong. It’s neither, and both — a crazy, amorphous amalgam of interests and histories that couldn’t have been planned and won’t become extinct. It was ragtag and subpar until World War II, then enjoyed a 30-year golden age.

Steven Berkowitz of the Perelman School of Medicine offers his advice on how to discuss the violence in Paris with children.