Through
4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
The hands-on tours at the Ancient Egypt exhibit at the Penn Museum are mentioned.
Penn In the News
Kent Smetters of the Wharton School answers questions about annuities and planning for retirement.
Penn In the News
Some college lectures aren't just dull, they're ineffective. Discuss, people. You did. Our recent stories on the Nobel Prize winning Stanford physicist who's pushing for big changes in how large universities teach science to undergraduates generated lots of interest, comments, questions, shares and listens — online and on NPR One. Professor Carl Wieman is a huge proponent of ditching the large lecture in favor of evidence-based, active learning techniques.
Penn In the News
Matthias Hollwich of the School of Design is featured about architecture that serves older adults for places like retirement communities.
Penn In the News
Dan Polsky of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School comments on Covered California’s attempts to improve quality and reduce costs for customers.
Penn In the News
Research about SNAP spending, formerly known as food stamps, Eliza Whiteman of the School of Design is cited.
Penn In the News
Research from the Wharton School about New Year’s resolutions as “temporal landmarks” is cited.
Penn In the News
Kat Rosqueta of the School of Social Policy & Practice’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy is interviewed about charitable giving during the holiday season.
Penn In the News
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says “Every program that conservatives haven't liked for the past 40 years has been identified as a socialistic program and no one has been standing up to defend socialism.”
Penn In the News
Richard Ingersoll of the Graduate School of Education and the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for suggesting that the more comprehensive a mentoring program is the more likely a teacher is prone to stay at a school.