Penn in the News

Thomas Sugrue of the School of Arts & Sciences says, “There’s a long memory of historical injustice – going back to slave patrols, to police officers enforcing racial segregation and arresting nonviolent protestors, and the commonplace tension, conflict, and harassment directed at African-Americans by law enforcem

Doctoral student Tim Libert of the Annenberg School for Communication talks about online privacy in regards to the Apple Watch.

The rioting, looting, arson, and vandalism that happened here this week might have horrified people across the country, watching it unfold on 24-hour news channels and Facebook feeds. But no one in this city should have been surprised. Much of Baltimore has long been a tinderbox of crushing poverty, pervasive violence, racism, and stark socioeconomic divides. It was only a matter of time.

Frances Jensen of the Perelman School of Medicine writes about brain development of teenagers on their way to college.

The Brookings Institution joined a crowded market of efforts to classify colleges with the release on Wednesday of its new "value added" rankings. The rankings consider how well colleges’ alumni performed on three economic measures: midcareer earnings, student-loan repayment, and "occupational earnings power," the average salary of occupations in which alumni work.

Michael Useem, Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan of the Wharton School write about lessons to be learned from the earthquake in Nepal.

Irwin Horwitz starts each semester of his strategic management class at Texas A&M University-Galveston with a basic lesson. He asks his students to imagine that they’re setting up a Kool-Aid stand with a certain number of resources which cost a certain amount of money. Then he asks: How much Kool-Aid would you have to sell to break even? Most seniors majoring in management can perform this exercise with no problem.

The rioting, looting, arson, and vandalism that happened here this week might have horrified people across the country, watching it unfold on 24-hour news channels and Facebook feeds. But no one in this city should have been surprised. Much of Baltimore has long been a tinderbox of crushing poverty, pervasive violence, racism, and stark socioeconomic divides. It was only a matter of time.

CASI Spring Visiting Fellow Prashant Jha is interviewed about the Nepal earthquake.

Dean Ted Ruger of the Law School recalls his experiences with a former classmate and now U.S. senator, Ted Cruz.