Penn in the News

Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education co-writes an article tackling student enrollment at historically black colleges and universities.

Salamishah Tillet of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for her book Sites of Slavery and her work with fighting sexual violence against women.

Karl Ulrich of the Wharton School and Dean Vijay Kumar of the School of Engineering and Applied Science talk about the importance of innovation.

Lincoln University will become the second local site of a “Bench by the Road,” part of an effort launched by the Toni Morrison Society in 2006 to highlight African American history locally and abroad. The bench, to be unveiled by The Friends of Hosanna at Lincoln University and the society, will be dedicated at noon on Friday, Sept. 18, at the Hosanna A.U.M.P. Church, on Baltimore Pike near the front entrance to the historically black university’s campus, 1570 Baltimore Pike.

Mary Anne Layden of the Perelman School of Medicine is interviewed about the copious amount of pornography the Internet has enabled.

John Trojanowski of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on the findings of a small study whose results hint at the possible transmissibility of Alzheimer’s disease.

Barbie Zelizer of the Annenberg School for Communication writes about the impact of new images on society, particularly a recent photo of a drowned Syrian toddler.

Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education comments on Xavier University’s unique curriculum.

The numbers point to what seems at first glance a troubling trend for the University of California at Riverside. In 2010, it was comfortably in the top 100 on the U.S. News and World Report list of the nation’s universities, ranking 94th. In 2011, it was 97th. In 2012, it lost a few bragging rights, sliding to 101st. Then 112th … and then 113th. Now, it stands at 121st. That is from the latest list, published Wednesday, a drop of 27 places over five years on the most prominent index in higher education.