Penn in the News

Emily Wilson of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for her book The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca.

The University of Missouri at Kansas City gave the Princeton Review false information designed to inflate the rankings of its business school, which was under pressure from its major donor to keep the ratings up, according to an outside audit released Friday.

William Whitaker of the School of Design speaks of Philadelphia architect Louis Kahn saying, “He was a master of natural light and creating pace for natural light in his buildings.”

Patricia Williams of the Wharton School comments on sexist advertising.

Tyler Williams, 24, is proud to have a diploma from an elite liberal arts college. Though it can be awkward in job interviews to explain how he happened to receive one from Bryn Mawr.

President Amy Gutmann, Chuck Leitner and Mike Murphy of Penn Athletics comment on the Young Quakers Community Athletics program.

It started on a Texas farm called Hard Scrabble. It was there that Robert B. Jackson, now a professor of environmental earth system science at Stanford University, encountered the gas boom to come. His father-in-law, the environmental writer John Graves, had made Hard Scrabble famous in his books. So Mr. Jackson was surprised, nearly a decade ago, when news came that Mr.

University of Virginia President Teresa A.

No one following the Steven Salaita case was surprised Thursday when the displaced scholar announced he’s suing top administrators of the University of Illinois System and its Urbana-Champaign campus. Salaita had been trying for months to force the university to give him back the tenured professorship in the American Indian studies program he says is his.

Scott Barry Kaufman of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for researching what activities undergraduate students perceive to have sex appeal.