Penn in the News

Joseph Kable of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about how discounting can affect decisions including personal finances.

The death last week of former University of California system president and UC Irvine chancellor Jack W. Peltason at 91 elicited warm memories of the modest political scientist who achieved high positions in American academia without losing his sense of humor. He also was known for his role in helping to build new university campuses from scratch and growing them to maturity.

Sharp cuts in federal funding for medical research are having lasting impact, argues Laurie H. Glimcher, MD, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and Provost for Medical Affairs of Cornell University, including driving young researchers out of the field.

Jonah Berger of the Wharton School joins a discussion on what it means to go viral.

A six-month-old Facebook post about the conflict in Gaza, receiving attention only recently, has spurred a debate over hate speech at Connecticut College that has some students calling on the administration to condemn racist remarks.

Almost 30 years ago, Trinity College, in Washington, D.C., faced a crisis familiar to many small institutions today: It lost the ability to attract the predominantly well-to-do women it had traditionally enrolled. So the Roman Catholic women’s college adopted a risky strategy. It changed its base, focusing instead on serving primarily African-American and Latina women who face financial disadvantages.

Raising handwritten signs and clutching scripts for protest chants, more than 2,500 people on Wednesday demonstrated at the University of Mississippi to resist last week’s unexpected decision to oust the school’s chancellor, Daniel W. Jones. In what officials here described as one of the largest protests in the university’s history, students, employees and other supporters of Dr.

A three-question test on financial literacy collaboratively developed by Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School is cited.

Jonah Berger of the Wharton School comments on viral Web sensations.

College fraternities and sororities, concerned that students accused of sexual assault are treated unfairly, are pushing Congress to make it harder for universities to investigate rape allegations. The groups' political arm plans to bring scores of students to Capitol Hill on April 29 to lobby for a requirement that the criminal justice system resolve cases before u