Penn in the News

GSU, PSC Team to Aid Minority Males Get Bachelor’s Degree

Shaun Harper of the Graduate School of Education is highlighted for his research and how it influenced the Male Success Initiative.

He Won’t Teach Under Campus Carry

Proponents of Texas’s new campus carry gun law say it could help save lives in an active shooter scenario, since those with guns could theoretically intervene or defend themselves. But that rationale has lots of critics -- many of the them faculty members -- who say more guns won’t reduce violence and weapons have no place on college campuses.

Students Protest School Renaming After $100 Million Gift

How Yahoo’s Marissa Has More Investors Betting on Women

Research co-authored by Laura Huang of the Wharton School that finds male entrepreneurs are more likely to secure venture capital funding than women is cited.

Students Who Feel Emotionally Unprepared for College Struggle in the Classroom

Students who feel less emotionally prepared for college than their peers tend to have lower grades and other negative experiences on campus, according to survey results released on Thursday. It’s no surprise that the transition from high school to college can be a challenge. But the study’s findings emphasize how many students feel emotional needs take a back seat to academics during their process of preparing for campus life.

Change the Course of Biomedical History

President Amy Gutmann writes about the impact the 21st Century Cures Act can have on biomedical research and history.

MIT Floats a New Online Credential: The MicroMaster’s

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced Wednesday the creation of an online track for getting a certain type of master’s degree, an experiment with the potential to open up its admissions process to the world as never before. Here’s the idea: Anyone can take a suite of courses in supply chain management designed by MIT through the free online Web site known as edX. Those who do well in that semester of study and pass a set of proctored exams can earn what’s called a “MicroMaster’s” from the online unit of MIT called MITx.

How Scientists Fool Themselves – and How They Can Stop

Jonathan Baron of the School of Arts & Sciences and Uri Simonsohn of Arts & Sciences and the Wharton School are quoted.

Penn Scientists’ Work on ‘Ghost Particles’ Contributed to Nobel Win

 Josh Klein and Eugene Beier of the School of Arts & Sciences are highlighted for being a part of a group of researchers who helped design and build high-tech particle detectors and analyzed results.

Student Debt Is Worse Than You Think

After a series of blockbuster hearings held 25 years ago on abuses in the higher education industry, Congress created a system to protect undergraduates from risky student loans. But two weeks ago, the Education Department released a trove of new data suggesting that the system is failing and that, at some colleges, the saddling of students with loans they cannot afford to pay down is far more dire than anyone knew. The loan crisis hits hardest at colleges enrolling large numbers of students from low-income backgrounds.