Articles by Jill Castellano

05/13/16 11:38am
Last year, I was privileged enough to attend convocation for the incoming class of Penn freshmen as an honorary guest.
04/22/16 5:06pm
Here are the top 30 easiest and hardest undergraduate classes at Penn, as ranked by their Penn Course Review difficulty score out of 4.0 between 2009 and 2015. Senior projects and theses, clinical rotations for nursing students and classes that have not been taught since 2013 are not included.
02/24/16 1:47am
See how much money students, faculty and staff at Penn have given to political campaigns in the past year.
02/17/16 2:32am
Campaign filings show that Cohen, a 1981 Law School graduate, was Fattah’s fifth-highest-paying individual donor in the 2014 election cycle.
12/07/15 1:07am
Behind my desk in the windowless office I’ve spend an absurd number of hours in this year, you can find a cork board littered with business cards of Managing Editors from years gone by.
04/15/15 12:24am
AXO nationals compared off-campus organizations to knock-off Tory Burch handbags.
04/06/15 11:29pm
Penn’s chapter of Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Epsilon, plans to officially revoke its charter with the University this week.
04/02/15 1:35am
Noelle Melartin, the new director of the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives, served as associate director from 2010 until March 2015, when she was promoted to her new position. 
02/26/15 2:26pm

UPDATED: Penn students interrupt Board of Trustees, calling out Comcast Exec. VP David Cohen

The protest centered around the issues of net neutrality and education.
02/23/15 2:35am
Alexsandra Bilotti, a Penn junior, died early Saturday morning of Ewing's Carcoma. She turned 22 years old last Wednesday.
02/22/15 2:48pm
On Saturday, stormwater flooded the area of Huntsman Hall on the ground floor by the Walnut Street entrance.
02/22/15 12:43pm
Store operators along Walnut Street said Penn maintenance staff told them buildings in a four-block radius were affected.
02/18/15 8:30am
The scare was caused by a transformer explosion on the block of 41st Street between Pine and Baltimore Streets.
11/12/14 12:44am
Penn's Division of Public Safety was ranked the number one university on Security Magazine's "Security 500" list.
11/10/14 1:43am
It was Maureen Rush’s fifth week on the job as a Philadelphia police officer, and she was already in a standoff with a drug addict.
11/04/14 1:46am
There’s no clear path to finding a home in New York City after graduation. But as the many
10/17/14 6:01pm
Student Health Services and the Penn's Health System are working with the CDC and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health to monitor the Ebola situation.
10/10/14 12:19pm
The Division of Public Safety is investigating an incident where a Penn Police officer allegedly used excessive force against a person riding her bicycle on campus, CBS News reported Thursday night.
10/06/14 1:28am
Experts say suicides on college campuses tend to happen in waves.
10/01/14 1:44am
Penn’s mental health task force offered preliminary recommendations to student groups at an Undergraduate Assembly steering committee last week.
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