Penn in the News

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School says,"At its best, crowdfunding allows communities to work together to help them fill a need that the community has.”

Daniel D. Tompkins, the sixth vice president of the United States, has long gazed impassively from an oil portrait hanging in the residence of the president of Columbia University, his alma mater. But on a recent afternoon, he might have been tempted to smile a bit. Chloe Hawkey, a junior at Barnard College, was summarizing her research on attitudes toward slavery among Columbia’s early students.

Louisiana politics is known for colorful personalities and big attitudes. It’s not usually the place where a guy with a doctorate in education policy makes a splash. But F. King Alexander, chancellor of the Louisiana State University system, is making a name for himself as an outspoken critic of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s proposed budget, which recommends a mammoth 82-percent cut in higher education.

Cal Poly Pomona student Nicolas Tomas never thought handing out leaflets promoting a vegan diet would become so controversial. But when college administrators moved to restrict his activities, Tomas sued the university.

Penn Masala is highlighted for appearing in upcoming movie, Pitch Perfect 2.

An associate dean at the University of Virginia filed a defamation lawsuit on Tuesday against Rolling Stone magazine, which she said portrayed her as the “chief villain” in a discredited article about a gang rape on the university’s campus. Nicole P. Eramo, an associate dean of students, is also suing the author of the article, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, and Rolling Stone’s parent company, Wenner Media.

Doctoral candidate Steven Jasinski of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about studying a new dinosaur whose keen nose made it a formidable predator.

Doctoral candidate Steven Jasinski of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted for helping identify a new species of dinosaur.

Doctoral candidate Steven Jasinski of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on identifying a new dinosaur species with a keen sense of smell.

Boston University was already navigating a racially charged debate in the spring, with a well-known professor arguing that the school’s administration had “fostered a climate of hostility and discrimination against African Americans that is among the worst in the nation,” and calling on the head of the NAACP to cancel his commencement speech there next week. Then things went viral.