Penn in the News

The John William Pope Foundation has been generous to the University of North Carolina. In 2011, for example, the foundation gave $3 million to help renovate the football stadium on the Chapel Hill campus — enough money to put Pope’s name on the academic-support center for athletes.

Within hours of the unexpected announcement last month that Sweet Briar College would close forever this summer, people began fighting the board’s decision. By this week, those efforts had led to three lawsuits simultaneously challenging the closure, one being appealed to the Virginia Supreme Court.

Richard Ingersoll of the Graduate School of Education and the School of Arts & Sciences comments on his previous estimates about teacher attrition.

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.

Joan Gluch of the School of Dental Medicine is quoted about fluoride levels in tap water.

I do not blame William and Mary for my brother’s suicide in April 2010. This decision was his and his alone and I will never know whether the way William and Mary treated him in the weeks leading up to his tragic decision would have made a difference in the outcome.

McMaster University is giving full-time faculty members a sizable raise this summer, with one qualification: they’re all women. The Canadian university is turning talk about its gender pay gap into action, tacking $3,515 (about $2,900 U.S.) onto the salaries of its female professors across ranks.

Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education writes about how different the experiences are for African-Americans and whites when encountering the police.

The College of Liberal and Professional Studies in the School of Arts & Sciences is highlighted for partnering with the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute to allow graduate students to work in the Institute’s laboratories to develop treatments for hepatitis B and liver cancer.