Penn in the News

Katy Milkman of the Wharton School is mentioned as a co-author of a research paper that shows the effects of peer pressure on retirement savings.

About three minutes into her opening speech at a symposium here on Thursday about the value of the liberal arts, Sen. Susan Collins addressed an underlying theme of the gathering with a blunt statement: "The importance of the liberal arts to a free and democratic society was known to antiquity," said Ms. Collins, a Republican from Maine. "Why is it that we need to keep reminding ourselves — and, more to the point, the public — of its value?"

Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences critiques doctors who become politicians.

At a time when the world desperately needs more expansive thinkers than ever before (and when higher education in the U.S. has never been more expensive), too many schools are churning out narrow specialists ill-equipped to deal with the vast complexity of today’s uber-global, rapidly changing reality.

Rebecka Hess of the School of Veterinary Medicine and doctoral student Emily Shields of the Perelman School of Medicine are cited for researching dogs with diabetes.

First-time graduate school enrollment was up 3.5 percent in 2014 from the year before, the biggest annual increase since 2009, according to a report out today from the Council of Graduate Schools. I was surprised that that number was as big as it was,” said Jeff Allum, assistant vice president for research and policy analysis for the council and co-author of its “Graduate Enrollment and Degrees: 2004 to 2014” study.

Brian Sennett of the Perelman School of Medicine suggests ways to protect knees and back from strain while walking during the papal visit.

Shaun Harper of the Graduate School of Education is cited for conducting a single-site study focused on student-athletes and race.