Penn in the News

Kyle Sherman of the School of Social Policy & Practice’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy joins a conversation about proposed legislation to take a closer look at the Red Cross.

The University of California at Berkeley is drawing praise for its decision to share how often it has granted access to email and other forms of electronic communication created by students, faculty members and staff at the institution. The university earlier this year released its first transparency report, showing how many times since January 2014 the institution has received what are known as “nonconsensual access requests.” UC-Berkeley says it is the first university to release such a report, according to The Daily Californian.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on Pope Francis’ role in presenting church teachings to Catholics and non-Catholics.

Melissa Wilde of the School of Arts & Sciences is featured for her 60-second lecture on how the pope matters.

Michael Platt of the Perelman School of Medicine, the Wharton School and the School of Arts & Sciences comments on the potential benefits of transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Ricardo Simmonds of the Penn Newman Catholic Community comments on the excitement surrounding the papal visit to Philadelphia.

Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School is among the authors of a report on massive open online courses.

Syracuse University is considering kissing the kiss cam goodbye, after some say the Jumbotron feature encourages sexual assault. “The instances I witnessed at the game encourage and condone sexual assault and a sense of male entitlement, at best. And they are an actual instance of assault, at worst,” Stephen Port of Manlius, N.Y., wrote in a letter to the editor of the Syracuse newspaper The Post-Standard and Syracuse.com. Mr. Port felt the need to write the letter after attending the Syracuse University-Wake Forest football game last week.

Undergraduate student Elizabeth Oppong of the School of Arts & Sciences is highlighted for interning in Shenzhen, China.