Penn in the News

Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences says, “You don’t have to be a faith-based bioethicist to recognize that there’s some global responsibility for modifying the human germline.”

Cade Massey of the Wharton School comments on interviewers who have similarities with interviewees.

Carolyn Marvin of the Annenberg School for Communication comments on Apple removing Civil War games in its App Store that included images of the Confederate flag.

Postdoctoral researcher Eldin Jašarevi of the School of Veterinary Medicine is quoted about studying the effects of stress during pregnancy.

When the Rev. William Gibbons died in 1886, 10,000 people attended his funeral in Washington. A second service in Charlottesville stopped traffic and commerce as throngs of mourners from the black community rushed to the Baptist church. Gibbons and his wife lived and died at a time of great change, from slavery – they were owned by professors at the University of Virginia — to emancipation, to leadership and great renown. Now U-Va. is telling their stories, and naming a new dorm in their honor, as the university delves into the darker side of its storied past.

Anthony Rostain of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on signs of adult attention-deficient/hyperactivity disorder.

David Rudovsky of the Law School comments on the reduction in shootings in Philadelphia.

It was a messy affair when the University of North Carolina at Wilmington closed its chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, in 2012. The group was kicked off campus for providing alcohol to minors, sponsoring a social affair after its activities were supposed to be suspended, and then lying to university officials about having done so. So far, the fraternity’s return to the campus isn’t going much better.

Susan Wachter of the Wharton School talks about the current status of homeownership in America.

This viewpoint from the University of Michigan’s president comes as the prestigious public flagship is releasing data from a survey of its students about sexual misconduct. Read about the survey here. The university in Ann Arbor has about 28,000 undergraduate and 15,000 graduate students. — Nick Anderson