Penn in the News

George Hajishengallis of the School of Dental Medicine is featured for studying a protein that prevents periodontitis and could eventually help prevent bone loss.

For now, the largest public university in Georgia remains the predictable one: the University of Georgia. But a four-year school in Atlanta is close on the heels of the flagship in Athens and is gaining widespread attention for innovative efforts to keep disadvantaged students on track toward a degree. Georgia State University had nearly 33,000 students in fall 2014, 25,000 of them undergraduates. Its undergrad enrollment has grown 50 percent since 2000. U-Ga.’s enrollment was 35,000, including 27,000 undergrads.

Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business has won plaudits for its tech-focused offerings and been ranked the top school in the nation, if not the world. The two-year M.B.A. program admits just 6% of applicants, counts among its alumni General Motors Co. Chief Executive Mary Barra and maintains a powerful network in Silicon Valley.

Doctoral candidate Andrés Castro Samayoa and Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education share their views on the College Scorecard.

Adam Grant of the Wharton School pens an op-ed about men acknowledging inequality in the workplace.

Students, parents and educators increasingly obsessed with college rankings have a new tool: the Obama administration’s College Scorecard. The new database focuses on a college’s graduation rate, graduates’ median earnings 10 years after graduation and the percentage of students paying back their college loans.

Two reports issued Wednesday by organizations that advocate for Palestinian rights ring alarm bells about what they characterize as organized and widespread efforts to suppress debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on American campuses.

Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School writes about researching baby boomer women and how they are handling debt.

Jim Eberwine of the Perelman School of Medicine is cited for developing a new method to “sequence RNA from single cells lodged in their tissue microenvironments.”

The fight to save a federal loan program for the neediest college students failed Wednesday as the Senate blocked legislation to extend the Federal Perkins Loan Program. A bipartisan coalition in Congress had rallied around the program, with the House unanimously voting in favor of a reauthorization bill introduced by Reps. Mike Bishop (R-Mich.) and Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) earlier this week. But all it took was one dissenting voice to effectively end the campaign. Sen.