Penn in the News

The Perelman School of Medicine’s Pavan Atluri’s research on growing replacement tissues and organs for transplantation is highlighted.

There are heated policy debates about how to make college more affordable and ensure students aren’t shut out by high costs. But as Congress, the president and the presidential candidates argue how best to help – and families worry – some researchers point out that national averages blur some important information. There are enormous differences from state to state in college costs for two- and four-year colleges, for out-of-state-student tuition, grant aid and other variables, Sandy Baum and Martha Johnson of the Urban Institute report — and those have been changing in recent years.

Undergraduate Rebecca Abramowitz of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is mentioned for being on a team that developed a custom-shaped bicycle helmet made from mushrooms.

Joshua M. Liao of the Perelman School of Medicine and Mark V. Pauly of the Wharton School authored an article about how to handle large fluctuations in the price of prescription medicine.

Susan Wachter of the Wharton School says, “There’s a closer look at stable, growing markets that are not in the first tier of global tech cities, and we qualify.”

Several dozen City University of New York faculty members were arrested on Wednesday when they blocked the entrance to the Midtown Manhattan building housing the administration’s offices as part of a demand for salary increases. Several hundred faculty and professional staff members participated in the protest outside 205 East 42nd Street, which houses the central administration offices, said Barbara Bowen, the president of the Professional Staff Congress/CUNY, the union representing the faculty and professional staff.

Maxwell Merkow of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on his study that addresses the issue of where in the brain recognition takes place.

Mark Pauly of the Wharton School and Joshua Liao of the Perelman School of Medicine co-author an article addressing sudden increases in specialty drug costs.

Rick White is a financial consultant in Boulder, Colo., but his heart is often 2,000 miles to the east, at Haverford College, the school on the Main Line outside Philadelphia that he graduated from in 1981. When he was tapped to be on its governing board, he was like a sub coming off the bench in a crucial game, ready to go all in. “I had been active in alumni things, so someone asked me to serve,” said Mr. White, the board’s chairman. “The Quaker values at Haverford are important, but there is also a need to have people around who know finance.

Anjan Chatterjee of the Perelman School of Medicine argues in favor of college students being allowed to use “smart drugs.”