11/5
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Filter Stories
Displaying 12581 - 12590 of 13618
Penn In the News
How Bird Poop Nearly Brought California’s Power Grid to Its Knees
Etienne Benson of the School of Arts and Sciences examines voluminous streams of bird excrement as the possible cause of large power outages.
Penn In the News
Arts and Sciences Deficits
Larry Singell saw the writing on the wall well before his college was hit with a possible $8 million deficit.
Penn In the News
Bill Would Tighten Rules for How Colleges Respond to Sexual Assaults
House lawmakers are renewing a bipartisan effort to toughen federal oversight of how colleges respond to campus sexual violence. Reps. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) and Patrick Meehan (R-Pa.) introduced a bill Thursday to broaden federal authority to levy fines against colleges that fail to protect the civil rights of students in sexual assault cases.
Penn In the News
How Growing Up in Poverty Rewires a Child’s Developing Brain
Brian Avants of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on the effects of poverty on the brain.
Penn In the News
How to Grapple With Chronic, Terminal Illness
Arbena Merolli of the Abramson Cancer Center in the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on dealing with a chronic illness and facing death.
Penn In the News
Sharing Data, but Not Happily
Research about data sharing led by Joseph Turow of the Annenberg School for Communication and Michael Hennessy of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is featured.
Penn In the News
Every Time a Fraternity or Sorority Got in Trouble This Year
Last week, Pennsylvania State University ordered its chapter of Kappa Delta Rho fraternity to shut down after a two-month suspension for allegedly posting photos of nude women, some of whom appeared to be unconscious, on a private Facebook page. Reports like these have become depressingly familiar. In just the spring semester of 2015, 133 fraternity and sorority chapters at 55 U.S. colleges were shut down, suspended, or otherwise punished after alleged offenses including excessive partying, hazing, racism, and sexual assault, according to reports compiled by Bloomberg.
Penn In the News
High Moral Reasoning Linked to Increased Gray Matter Volume in the Brain
Diana Robertson of the Wharton School is quoted about a study done with Hengyi Rao of the Perelman School of Medicine on moral reasoning and gray matter.
Penn In the News
For Northwestern, the Kipnis Case Is Painful and Personal
The controversy swirling around a Northwestern University professor’s essays about what she has called "sexual paranoia" on campuses poses a philosophical debate.
Penn In the News
How ‘Perfect’ Materials Begin to Fail
Lisa Chen and Daniel Gianola of the School of Engineering and Applied Science are quoted on their study of stretching atoms.