Penn in the News

Marie Gottschalk of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow.

Iwan Barankay of the Wharton School says, “Performance-related pay, of which bonuses are an example, will become more and more prevalent.”

Over the past several years, they could hardly have had bigger news to report. The young journalists at the Cavalier Daily, the University of Virginia’s student newspaper, covered stories that made international headlines: murder, leadership, crises, allegations of rape and racial attacks. But even as its student reporters were going after the news, the paper’s business side was struggling.

Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education comments on marketing strategies to help Cheney University recruit students.

Rebecca Wells and Michael Pack of the Perelman School of Medicine are featured for leading a study about biliary atresia in zebrafish and mammals.

A draft law that would require foreign nongovernmental organizations to register their activities with police authorities in China has American universities worried about a chilling effect on educational exchanges of all types. The draft law defines foreign NGOs broadly and is sweeping in its scope, seemingly applying not only to universities that have physical locations in China but also to any institution that so much as sends a single student or professor there.

Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School and Steven Joffe of the Perelman School of Medicine co-author an op-ed about the idea of patients being charged for medical research.