Penn in the News

Cecile Sam of the Graduate School of Education says, “There’s still a huge divide between K-12 and higher ed.”

Philip Johnson and James Wilson of the Perelman School of Medicine are cited for their research.

Jason Karlawish of the Perelman School of Medicine discusses end-of-life decisions for patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

A video of racist chant by men alleged to be fraternity brothers at the University of Oklahoma has brought widespread condemnation and the fraternity’s suspension. The 10-second video features men said to be members of the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE).

Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for her Ted Talk on “grit.”

Most parents worry when they send their kids off to college, but not (yet) about things as deeply weird as this: A mom in Arizona was so upset about the radical change in her son’s behavior after a couple of years at the University of Arizona that she asked the Arizona Daily Star for help extricating him from a cult’s clutches, according to an investigation by the paper.

During a brief recess in an honors course at Eastern Michigan University last fall, a teaching assistant approached the class’s three female professors. “I think you need to see this,” she said, tapping the icon of a furry yak on her iPhone. The app opened, and the assistant began scrolling through the feed.

Katharyn Hanson of the Museum comments on antiquities in Iraq and Syria damaged by extremist group ISIS.

Diego Aguilar Avila enrolled in Cal State Northridge last fall, and the freshman says he's lucky to have gotten in when he did. The Northridge campus recently announced plans to tighten its admission criteria beginning in fall 2016. That could have created a hurdle for Avila, who admits to receiving low grades in some of his classes at Bravo Medical Magnet High School in East Los Angeles.

A strike threat hovers over labor talks at New York University this week, more than a year after the school, in a watershed decision, recognized its graduate-student employees as part of a union. Graduate students say the school’s commitment to collective bargaining is ringing hollow, as negotiations that began in 2014 still haven’t led to a contract. To some of them, they are unionized in name only.