Penn in the News

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.

David Skeel of the Law School is quoted.

A less-than-collegial battle between two major research universities in laid-back Southern California says much about the severity of the financial pressures mounting on American higher education. Among research universities a longstanding gentlemen’s agreement has held that a scientist who moves from one institution to another is allowed to carry any grant support along to his or her new home. Now, with universities counting every dollar, that bit of protocol may become a quaint courtesy of days gone by. The dispute broke out last month, when Paul S.

Deborah Mandell of the School of Veterinary Medicine talks about dog fur and how shaving their fur can make a dog hotter.

Howard Stevenson of the Graduate School of Education is cited for his research that revealed that youth are better able to “manage their anger at school and home to complete their schooling assignments by using cultural strengths.”

David Casarett of the Perelman School is mentioned for his book Stoned: A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana.

Research examining the family goals of Wharton graduates from Stewart Friedman of the Wharton School is cited.

Doctoral candidate Steve McGill of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is highlighted about RoboCup 2015.