08/29/13 5:31pm
Penn Engineers’ summer projects include cockroach inspired robots and improved cell phone chips.
08/28/13 6:09pm
The agreement preserves more than 145 acres of farmland in the Philadelphia suburbs.
08/21/13 2:35pm
The new med school and SAS minor has a six-course requirement.
07/31/13 10:26pm
Penn has jumped from 17 to 11 in Forbes’ top college rankings, which were published last Wednesday.
07/24/13 10:04pm
Diana Mutz, professor of political science and communication, testified as an expert witness last Friday in a trial on the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s voter identification law.
07/17/13 11:42pm
Many Penn students interviewed by the DP felt that an article in the New York Times about Penn’s hookup culture did not capture the full University community.
06/18/13 10:18pm
On June 17, Mark G. Allen was named the inaugural scientific director of the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology.
06/05/13 10:51pm
Several members of Penn’s Turkish community were only blocks away from the violence of the protests in Taksim Square, while others have friends and family nearby.
06/04/13 11:13pm
The exhibit “Each One As She May: Ligon, Reich, and De Keersmaeker” in Penn’s Institute of Contemporary Art is the culmination of the year-long Spiegel Contemporary Art Freshman Seminar.
05/16/13 12:13am
Wednesday afternoon at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, NBC 10 and Axis Philly, a local nonprofit news and information organization, hosted a panel entitled “What’s Next? A Forum on the Future of University City High School.”
04/30/13 7:53pm
Penn School of Veterinary Medicine’s Ryan Hospital has been designated by the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care as the only Veterinary Trauma Center in Pennsylvania on Monday, and one of just nine centers nationwide.
04/18/13 12:07am
While the debate on gun control has reached a stalemate on Capitol Hill, the discussion continues strongly here on campus.
04/09/13 12:12am
Last night in Houston Hall, the Civic House Associates Coalition hosted the CHAC Community Dinner to facilitate discussion between local nonprofit organization leaders and Penn students.
04/03/13 10:06pm
As part of Penn Fashion Week, the Wharton Undergraduate Sports Business Club hosted three representatives from Under Armour and Dick’s Sporting Goods. Neal Goldman, John Hardy and David Progar offered a brief history of sports apparel, discussed the relationship between the two companies and described their cooperative marketing process.
03/27/13 11:24pm
In the LGBT Center Wednesday night, Smith discussed the impending Supreme Court rulings that will determine the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8.
03/21/13 12:51am
Capping off their year-long focus on post-conflict recovery and development, Moral Voices brought two humanitarians to tell their stories of survival and service.
03/18/13 11:49pm
Last night in Fisher-Bennett Hall, however, the debate concerning Narendra Modi and the disinvitation continued with a screening of “Final Solution,” a documentary about the Hindu-Muslim riots in India.
02/27/13 11:35pm
In one room of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology sits a 55-pound ball of polished quartz, once in the possession of a Chinese empress and stolen from the Museum in 1988.
02/19/13 1:22am
Last night, Penn Sangam asked a roomful of students an unusual question: could they really make an arranged marriage work?
02/06/13 12:31am
Omar Barghouti — a pro-Palestinian researcher, human rights activist and author — spoke at Claudia Cohen Hall Tuesday. His lecture, hosted by Penn for Palestine and PennBDS, in partnership with Philly BDS and Philadelphia Jewish Voice for Peace, was titled “Israel is No South Africa.”
