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(02/21/17 2:47am)
While most Penn students are worrying about midterms and essays, a group of Penn students recently sold their startup for an undisclosed amount to an e-commerce company. ThirdEye Technologies created a mobile app that assists blind and visually impaired users by reading aloud descriptions of objects and converting pictures of text to speech.
(02/14/17 2:02am)
Tikkun olam, meaning “repair the world,” is a phrase that represents the spirit of charitable giving in the Jewish faith.
(02/15/17 1:19am)
“We are sustainable,” the homepage of Penn’s newly constructed New College House dorm reads.
(02/15/17 1:52am)
After starting off the year with some controversy, the Class Board of 2020 has faced both highs and lows after their first semester. One of their more ambitious projects was an event in December that they called the “12 Days of Giveaways,” in which the board gave away different free items every day for 12 days, like socks and laptop stickers.
(02/03/17 2:09am)
When people think of innovation at Penn, the School of Nursing might not be the first thing that comes to mind.
(02/03/17 12:03am)
At 5:30 p.m. on Thursday evening, a stream of Penn students marched down Walnut Street chanting “No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here.”
(02/01/17 1:10am)
“Can you be a feminist and oppose abortion?” Wharton sophomore and head of Quakers for Life Eric Hoover asked.
(01/23/17 11:33pm)
2015 Wharton graduate Blake Engelhard aims to use “swipe culture” to create valuable connections and friendships through Necter, a new social networking app.
(01/19/17 10:57pm)
Penn Hillel Executive Director and campus rabbi, Mike Uram won the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Education and Jewish
Identity for his new book "Next Generation Judaism: How College
Students and Hillel Can Help Reinvent Jewish Organizations."
(01/18/17 9:36pm)
Penn was just ranked eighth most innovative university in the world by Reuters in a report that measured indicators like academic papers and patent filings.
(01/13/17 12:41am)
On Dec. 4, the Undergraduate Student Government at Princeton University began a new free menstrual product program, according to The Daily Princetonian.
(01/12/17 3:36am)
According to the Quran, God made humans differently so we can all get to know one another.
(12/07/16 6:49am)
The Penn Panhellenic Council recently named College junior Caroline Ohlson as president for 2017. A member of Chi Omega, Ohlson sits on the executive board of Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention, is a Penn Anti-Violence Educator and is a member of the Order of Omega, a leadership honor society for greek life. She has previously served as Philanthropy Chair of her sorority and Vice President of Service and Philanthropy of the Panhellenic Council.
(11/29/16 9:23pm)
Philadelphia’s
LGBTQ health and well-being center, the Mazzoni Center, recently received $1.5
million from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Redevelopment Assistance
Capital Program, NBC reported.
(11/21/16 7:26am)
Spiral streamers and “Happy Thanksgiving” banners adorned the common room of Mercy Douglas Residences this past Friday as residents of the senior housing building gathered to celebrate Thanksgiving.
(11/17/16 9:10pm)
In an opinion piece released on Fox News on Thursday,
Harvard sophomore Jacob Russell criticized the Ivy League's response to the Trump
victory. Russell
questioned exactly what the Ivy League was protesting, as Trump’s victory was
completely legal.
(11/17/16 8:34am)
Hidden beneath the rooms of the Quad lies a series of little-known tunnels. This well-kept secret allows ambitious students to explore areas of the Quad that most will never see.
(11/16/16 12:35am)
This past Thursday, one day before Veterans Day, students at Brown University destroyed American flags on campus, according to The Brown Daily Herald. The
flags were set up along pathways at Brown for the annual Veterans Day ceremony,
and students removed them from the ground, tore them, snapped their sticks and
threw them away.
(11/09/16 5:25am)
On this election night, Penn student groups anxiously gathered at viewing parties to watch the unnerving, monumental presidential election unfold. For many, this was their first time voting in a presidential election.
(11/01/16 8:38pm)
It’s the first of November, and for high school seniors across America, that means many schools' early Common Applications are due. And for around 5,500 seniors, that means they need to submit their Penn early decision applications.