Penn in the News

Colleges and universities lure top faculty members away from competitor institutions all the time, and the practice is (generally speaking) entirely legal.

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology offerings related to the upcoming visit by the pope are highlighted.

The Museum is highlighted for exhibiting ancient religious texts to mark the papal visit next month.

Some incoming freshman objected to the recommended summer reading at Duke University, the student newspaper the Chronicle reported, sparking a debate over morality, sexual identity and literature online before the school year even began. “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic” is a best-selling graphic novel by cartoonist Alison Bechdel. The graphic novel, whose musical adaptation was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for drama, was recommended to freshmen arriving on campus to prompt discussion about difficult issues.

Jacques DeLisle of the Law School and Mauro Guillen of the Wharton School are interviewed about China’s economy and its effect on the U.S.

An interview with graduate student Matthew Lee from the School of Nursing highlights his research using video games in treatment for mental illness.

Fat endowments make for attractive, fat targets. That was true earlier this summer, when the Twitterverse went, well, all atwitter, over the news that John A. Paulson, a hedge-fund mogul, decided to donate $400 million to Harvard, the richest university in the world.

Kelly Allison of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on the effect of eating late at night or outside one’s typical sleep/wake cycle while on a diet.

Before Texas A&M University outsourced the management of buildings on its flagship campus in 2012, campus officials struggled with seven different work-order systems and a backlog of about 1,000 requests for maintenance or new equipment.