Academics
There’s always something new going on at Penn’s four undergraduate schools and 12 graduate schools. Look here for information on upcoming academic initiatives, new classes and research conducted by professors and students.
Painting Penn | Penn mixes Ivy rigor with arts presence
Penn mixes an Ivy League education with a strong arts program, an attraction to many arts-minded students.Fellowship helps train new teachers
For the second year, College sophomores, juniors and seniors are being offered an opportunity to gain hands-on teaching experience in one of three West Philadelphia high schools.UA, SCUE push to get more syllabi online
The Student Committee on Undergraduate Education, the Undergraduate Assembly and the Office of the Provost are working to encourage faculty to post course syllabi online.'Scroogenomics' urges you to think twice before giving gifts
Considering buying those socks for your dad this Christmas? Before making the purchase, Wharton Professor Joel Waldfogel says you should think twice.Students run clinic offering rural care
The Webster County Cancer Education Project, a collaborative program between the Nursing School and various health and service providers, benefits a rural Appalachian community in West Virginia.Class seeks to define 'queer voice' in art
Students in Kenny Goldsmith’s class are working to define “queer voice” in art — which Goldsmith said nobody has been able to do easily.Professor makes clothes light up
The idea of stitching circuitry into clothing may seem like a concept gleaned from the pages of a science-fiction novel set centuries into the future.
Jansen emphasizes benefits of global health careers
During a Career Services program Tuesday night, the international health expert described how his experience learning the Inuktitut dialect while doing research in the Arctic as a student of anthropology ultimately jump-started his career in global health.
Publisher discusses zombies, sea monsters — and Jane Austen
Last night, students interested in publishing, books and zombies witnessed the brains behind The New York Times bestseller, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies — Jason Rekulak.Med School's 'Pipeline' reaches out to Sayre High
Through the Education Pipeline, Faculty, residents and students in the Medical School, as well as Penn undergraduates, teach Sayre students topics relating to neuroscience, cardiology, infectious disease and endocrinology.Enrollment for MBAs holds steady
While MBA enrollment at Wharton has increased in the recession, that rise has not been drastic. Other schools have seen increases.Engineering prof creates 'cloaking device'
Electrical and Systems Engineering and Bioengineering professor Nader Engheta has created a cloaking device that makes objects “less visible” to the human eye, he said.Hands-on projects are focus of Mechatronic Systems class
Students in professor Jonathan Fiene’s Design of Mechatronic Systems class do in a week what other engineers do in two months.Law students attend Supreme Court case
Last week, eight third-year Penn Law students attended a U.S. Supreme Court hearing on a case they had helped research in coursework for the school’s Supreme Court Clinic.Neuroscience prof sheds light on animal research
Despite the School of Veterinary Medicine’s prestigious status as a research institution, Penn Police is on the lookout at every event for animal rights activists protesting the unfair treatment of research subjects.Profs scoff at bill to drop political science funds
Sen. Tom Coburn (R- Ok.) proposed an amendment that would prohibit the NSF from “wasting federal research funding on political science projects.”Wharton class involves real-world field projects
Some students don’t enter a classroom for class. Instead, they work with the United Nations or design buildings in Abu Dhabi.