Penn in the News

Robert Kurzban of the School of Arts & Sciences writes about pathogens.

Susan Sorenson of the School of Social Policy & Practice suggests that it is difficult to predict the impact of President Obama’s move to tighten gun-control laws.

How much has to go wrong at an institution before its top leaders are held accountable? That’s what some at the University of Louisville are asking. The public university has weathered several high-profile incidents in the last year, including a prostitution scandal involving the men’s basketball team, the president and his staff donning racially insensitive Halloween costumes, and, revealed most recently, the ongoing investigation of an executive vice president and other high-level staffers for possibly misusing federal funds.

Philip Tetlock of the Wharton School and the School of Arts & Sciences writes about the soft-side of psychology.

Graduate student Sarah Lyon of the Graduate School of Education writes about the importance of universities implementing orientation seminars to educate new students about mental health resources.

Neysun Mahboubi of the School of Arts and Sciences is quote on efforts at ‘stability maintenance” and the Chinese court system.

Jonathan Moreno of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Perelman School of Medicine writes about the connection between science and predicting political turmoil.

On the days that big-time college football teams play, the campus and local police departments of institutions playing see a notable increase in reports of rapes of college-age women, a new national study has found.

Sandra González-Bailón of the Annenberg School for Communication is interviewed about slacktivism and its discontents.

Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School talks about his predictions for the stock market in 2016.