Penn in the News

Academics are often encouraged to write clearly and concisely, but that imperative may actually limit a paper’s impact on scholarship. A new study out of the University of Chicago has found that papers with longer, jargon-laden abstracts are more likely to be cited in other academic works than are brief, clear abstracts, which researchers are typically taught to write.

Kermit Roosevelt of the Law School comments on evolving cases around freedom of speech and the Internet.

Dean Denis Kinane of the School of Dental Medicine and Lynn Marsden-Atlass of Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery are quoted about an antique carriage owned by 19^th-century dentist Thomas Evans that he used to help Napoleon III's wife flee riots in Paris.

A study about the effectiveness of wearable fitness trackers on changing the user’s behavior from the Perelman School of Medicine is cited.

Professors have good reason to be wary of adaptive learning software, which automates parts of the teaching process. Adaptive courses could mean a different role for faculty members, some fear, or no role at all. However, some of these new “personalized” learning tools are designed to be faculty friendly, and to put the technology in the hands of professors.

Employers say that international experience matters in hiring decisions. Chief executives fret that today’s graduates lack the skills to succeed in a global economy. Even the U.S. secretary of education, Arne Duncan, in recorded remarks to the annual conference here this week of Nafsa: Association of International Educators, called global education a must-have. "In the 21st century," Mr.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center talks about including viable candidates from all political parties in presidential debates.

A blossoming experiment in allowing a form of open-access scientific publishing appears to have hit a roadblock, after the world’s largest journal publisher found that too many universities were moving to take advantage of it.

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit that challenged the U.S. Department of Education’s rewritten “gainful employment” rule, handing a victory to the Obama administration in its longstanding regulatory battle with for-profit colleges. U.S.

Ask any U.S. recruiter: Competition for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) talent is getting fierce. Benefiting big from that trend are foreign-born college graduates, who are seeing fast wage gains as they help American employers fill those hot jobs. Among full-time wage and salary workers in the U.S.