Penn in the News

Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education is cited for studying enrollment at minority-serving institutions.

Jeffrey Drebin and Peter O’Dwyer of the Perelman School of Medicine talk about adding vitamin D to the treatment regimen for some pancreatic cancer patients.

Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School comments on choosing the best retirement plan and how people contribute to it.

Ritesh Agarwal of the School of Engineering and Applied Science comments on computing using light and photo-detector devices.

Four days after a campus police officer shot and killed a 43-year-old man during an off-campus traffic stop, Santa J. Ono, the University of Cincinnati’s president, announced an overhaul of the university’s police department. The changes made on Thursday — which may be temporary, depending on the outcome of meetings with city leaders — include a directive that the university's police officers conduct traffic stops only within campus boundaries.

Ritesh Agarwal of the School of Engineering and Applied Science explains how a photodetector sensitive to the “spin” of photons could improve computing.

Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School is highlighted as one of the top female economists.

Photos from the Best Friends Bash sponsored by the School of Veterinary Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are highlighted.

A longtime Lincoln University professor drew ire from Pennsylvania officials in 2010 when he called for the destruction of Israel and questioned whether the Holocaust ever happened. But Kaukab Siddique, a 72-year-old associate professor of English, kept his job. Now he's mouthing off again. "Don't be scared of these dirty Jewish Zionist White Supremacist thugs," he wrote in a Facebook post in May. Earlier this month he wondered why it took Bill Cosby's accusers so long to come forward. Is it because "many women are sluts"?

For decades, comedian Bill Cosby was the very public face of Temple University, an alumnus promoting the school and its mission. He wore his Temple t-shirt on his popular TV show, routinely spoke at the school’s commencement ceremonies and hosted a convocation class for freshmen: “Cosby 101.” This winter, after numerous women accused him of drugging and sexually assaulting them, Cosby resigned from Temple’s Board of Trustees. Cosby has never admitted sexually assaulting a woman, nor has he been criminally charged.