Penn in the News

The United States Supreme Court will hear arguments on Dec. 9 in Fisher v. University of Texas, a case challenging affirmative action in university admissions. Emily Bazelon, a staff writer for the magazine, and Adam Liptak, The Times’s Supreme Court correspondent, have been exchanging emails about the possible outcomes of the case and what they might mean at a moment of debate over race in American higher education.

Mark Liberman of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted on the voice inflections used when speaking one-on-one with a camera.

Nancy Rothbard of the Wharton School talks about productivity and distraction in the workplace.

Martha J. Farah of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted on her studies on academic “smart drugs.”

Anna Cabre of the School of Arts & Sciences explains how the oceans offset the rising temperatures of earth.

Stewart Friedman of the Wharton School says, “Millenials saw their parents devote their lives to those kinds of total-immersion manager jobs, only to be ejected in the financial crisis.”

A review of a book co-authored by Jonathan Barnett of the School of Design.

Anjan Chatterjee of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on how brain damage affects working artists.

Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School comments on the difficulty of estimating and calculating pension liabilities in the public sector.

The American Law Institute, a scholarly group influential in legal circles, is beginning to craft guidelines on campus sexual assault that will seek to outline best practices and bring some clarity to the tangles of compliance with federal law.