Restored Sight Fades After Gene Therapy The Scientist Restored Sight Fades After Gene Therapy Samuel Jacobson and Jean Bennett of the Perelman School of Medicine are quoted about the impact of gene therapy on sight.
Video: Rates & Home Affordability CNBC Video: Rates & Home Affordability Susan Wachter of the Wharton School talks about the current housing market.
Philadelphia-area Universities Line Up Diverse Group of Commencement Speakers CBS Philadelphia Philadelphia-area Universities Line Up Diverse Group of Commencement Speakers The 2015 commencement speaker, U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power, is mentioned.
Video: Your Health Info May Be Bought and Sold Online WPVI-TV (Philadelphia) Video: Your Health Info May Be Bought and Sold Online Timothy Libert of the Annenberg School for Communication is highlighted for studying health data privacy.
Accepted to All Eight Ivies, Virginia Student Makes Her Decision: Harvard The Washington Post Accepted to All Eight Ivies, Virginia Student Makes Her Decision: Harvard In the end, Pooja Chandrashekar had to narrow down her choices. The wunderkind senior at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology got into 14 schools — including all eight Ivies — and was deciding between Stanford and Harvard. And on Friday she made her decision: Chandrashekar is bound for Cambridge, Mass. “After much deliberation, I’ve finally committed to Harvard,” Chandrashekar said.
Bardolatry as Idolatry Inside Higher Ed Bardolatry as Idolatry On William Shakespeare’s birthday this year, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) issued a report, “The Unkindest Cut: Shakespeare in Exile in 2015,” which warned that “less than 8 percent of the nation’s top universities require English majors to take even a single course that focuses on Shakespeare.” Warnings about the decline of a traditional literary canon are familiar from conservative academic organizations such as
Shades of Sensitivity Scientific American Shades of Sensitivity Scott Barry Kaufman of the School of Arts & Sciences writes about levels of sensitivity.
Redressing Bleeding Wounds: Policymakers, Parent PLUS Loans and HBCUs TheHill.com Redressing Bleeding Wounds: Policymakers, Parent PLUS Loans and HBCUs Marybeth Gasman and Ph.D. candidate William Boland of the Graduate School of Education contribute their views on postsecondary education, financial assistance and historically black colleges and universities.
Audio: The Downside of Being a ‘CEO Candidate’ Marketplace (NPR) Audio: The Downside of Being a ‘CEO Candidate’ Michael Useem of the Wharton School comments on CEO candidates being job creators.
A Philadelphia Story Times of India A Philadelphia Story A 2013 Center for the Advanced Study of India visiting fellow, Avijit Ghosh, recounts his time researching at the Penn Libraries’ South Asia Collection. Devesh Kapur of the School of Arts & Sciences and Pushkar Sohoni of the Libraries are mentioned.