Penn in the News

Douglas Smith of the Perelman School of Medicine suggests the best way for medical professionals to help traumatic brain injury patients.

Fewer than 4 in 10 college presidents express confidence in the financial sustainability of their institutions over the next decade. Less than a third agree that sexual assault is prevalent on American college campuses, and just 6 percent say it is prevalent at their own institution.

Matthew Levendusky of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for his research on partisan media.

Kent Smetters of the Wharton School talks about the similarities between stress tests for banks and restaurant health inspections.

Rutgers University and its largest faculty union have reached a tentative four-year agreement that, if approved by members, would include across-the-board raises and require the university to declare a fiscal emergency before freezing salaries. The agreement with the American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers, announced Thursday in messages sent to faculty, would cover nearly 4,700 of its members.

President Amy Gutmann discusses how Penn is becoming more accessible for lower-income students.

Penn is mentioned as a partner for the “Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia” project.

Andy Minn, Robert Vonderheide and Lynn Schuchter of the Perelman School of Medicine discuss a clinical trial for a cancer treatment.

Two students were expelled from the University of Oklahoma this week after a video of them leading a racist chant went viral. The response from David Boren, the president of the university, was swift and decisive — the video went public Sunday night, and by midday Tuesday the university had announced the expulsion.

The president of Saudi Arabia’s flagship graduate research university has rejected calls for him to condemn restrictions on freedom of speech in the country.