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New Ideas for Spending Tax Money
Many government programs designed to address societal ills fall short of their goals in sector after sector, and Richard J. Gelles, dean of the School of Social Policy and Practice, says these programs are predestined to fail because they create self-serving and self-protecting bureaucracies that keep them in business.
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A Dictator’s Prosecutor Teaches at Penn
A celebrated judge whose story was told in the 2008 documentary “The Judge and the General,” came to campus this fall as part of Penn Law School’s Bok Visiting International Professor Program.
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Ethically Impossible
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, chaired by Penn President Amy Gutmann, has completed the first phase of an important study on U.S.-funded research conducted in the 1940s in Guatemala that involved intentionally exposing and infecting vulnerable populations to sexually transmitted diseases without the subjects' consent.
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Penn Park Opens
Neither gray skies nor a blustery cold front could cloud the sunny smiles or curb the enthusiasm of those who came out to enjoy the opening of Penn Park. In fact, a rainbow crowned the closing of the event.
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Global Colloquium of University Presidents
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened the fifth annual meeting of the Global Colloquium of University Presidents on Monday, April 4, in a public address at the University of Pennsylvania on empowering women.[youtube]http://www.youtube.