Penn in the News

Jerry Wind of the Wharton School shares his choice for the best advertising campaign of all time.

John DiIulio of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for his book Bring Back the Bureaucrats.

Admissions offices don’t operate in the clouds, above the muck of competing motivations, beyond the reach of powerful hands. Although the deans and directors who select applicants wield great influence, each has something pretty much everyone else has: a boss.

Presidents are not always the highest-paid person on their campus. Many of them are outearned by medical faculty members, coaches, vice presidents for finance, and chief investment officers. Among the more than 200 employees at private colleges who earned more than $1-million in 2012, 81 were medical faculty members, 39 were coaches, and 35 were chief investment officers. Thirty-six were presidents.

Undergraduate student Ariel Koren of the School of Arts & Sciences is profiled.

Susan Wachter of the Wharton School is quoted about restaurant groups.

Howard Herrmann of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on catheter-implanted valves.

Danielle Laughlin of the School of Veterinary Medicine answers questions about heart disease and pets.

A Yale fraternity has been banned from conducting on-campus activities until August 2016 as punishment for violating the university’s sexual misconduct policy at an initiation ceremony last year and then trying to impede the resulting investi

Janet Monge and William Hafford of the Penn Museum and undergraduate students Carly Sokach and Kamillia Scott share their comments on an excav