Penn in the News

Joan O’Brien of the Perelman School of Medicine discusses leading a study about the genetics of glaucoma in African Americans.

Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli comments on Penn’s new expansion projects.

Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School co-authors an article sharing his thoughts on medical malpractice reforms.

 Maybe Jerry Falwell was right. The late evangelist always figured that most people would dismiss anything that started in this little city, where he founded Liberty University. "They think of my hometown as a rather primitive Blue Ridge Mountain village, a backwater on the James River," he wrote in his autobiography, Strength for the Journey.

Frances Jensen of the Perelman School of Medicine writes about the importance of teenagers learning about how their brains function.

Doctoral student Tim Libert of the Annenberg School for Communication is featured for studying what happens when users look up health-related information online.

It would be crushing here if the winner was New York. The bid from Hawaii, where Barack Obama was born, seems an afterthought. Four short words sum up the confident pitch from the South Side for the right to host the 44th president’s official library and museum: “Bring it on home.”

Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen spearheaded a yearslong project to re-establish Nalanda University, an ancient center of learning in eastern India that once drew students from across Asia. Now, less than six months after the new Nalanda started operating, Mr.

Uri Simonsohn of the Wharton School explains “p-hacking.”

Emily Falk of the Annenberg School for Communication is cited for studying how self-affirmations can help with healthy habits.