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(11/09/25 8:39pm)
In high school, getting into Penn was plenty to brag about. As 1 of the roughly 3000 students admitted each year, the acceptance rate spoke for itself. You quickly learn, though, that most of the peers you meet at Penn are more accomplished, more knowledgeable, and more articulate than you are. We start coffee chatting with organizations to build our network. We go to Pottruck for the sports expo and look into trying out for club sports teams. We also start gearing up to rush Sorority and Fraternity Life.
(10/07/25 4:10am)
In interviews with The Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn students voiced reactions to the White House preferential funding compact sent to the University last Wednesday.
(10/07/25 2:09am)
Nearly 300 photographs taken in northern Iraq during the 1930s and stored at the Penn Museum have been digitized and shared with the Yazidi community — which is indigenous to that region — forming what researchers describe as the group’s first visual archive.
(10/02/25 5:21am)
The Kelly Writers House hosted the Nora Magid Mentorship Prize’s annual panel featuring four College graduates who discussed their careers in journalism and media.
(09/26/25 5:02am)
Former University Board of Trustees Chair Scott Bok discussed his recently released book at an event hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School on Thursday.
(09/26/25 2:42pm)
Perry World House hosted Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, the president of Namibia, on Thursday for a conversation on democratic governance, gender parity, and Africa’s economic future.
(09/24/25 3:49am)
Penn’s Faculty Handbook describes lecturers as “eminent scholars” who provide “valuable instructional services” to Penn and its student body. But in interviews with The Daily Pennsylvanian, non-tenure track faculty said that their day-to-day experiences and treatment do not reflect that description.
(09/20/25 10:06pm)
EASTON, Mass. — Freshman kicker Mason Walters arrived on Penn’s campus a month ago. He spent the last few weeks learning where his classes are. But in his first collegiate football game, he kicked like he’d been there before.
(09/19/25 2:23am)
The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History hosted a live podcast taping with 2008 College graduate Jonah Platt on Wednesday.
(09/18/25 4:57am)
With a new football season comes a changing of the guard, and four newly nominated captains will take the helm for the Quakers in 2025.
(09/18/25 4:54am)
When senior quarterback Liam O’Brien first took the field for the Quakers three seasons ago, fans knew what was coming.
(09/10/25 3:12am)
Penn School of Arts and Sciences Dean Mark Trodden hosted Stephen A. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Peter Struck in a special edition of the Ampersand Podcast on Tuesday.
(09/16/25 3:34am)
As many colleges and universities remain test-optional and others — like Penn — revert to old policies, high school students are dazed in the wake of the 2024-25 college application cycle.
(09/04/25 5:17am)
Penn students and faculty are concerned about transportation access this school year as the first phase of SEPTA bus route eliminations and significant rail service cuts was implemented on Aug. 24.
(08/29/25 10:00am)
On Aug. 11, 2025, Colombian senator Miguel Uribe died after being shot at a political rally. The event struck as disturbing and discouraging; it had been decades since a major political figure had been last killed (1989). The topic of violence against political opposition in Colombia has always been rooted in the country’s sociopolitical context characterized by conflict between the government and guerrilla groups.
(08/12/25 4:08am)
On July 16, Penn announced that its 2025-26 undergraduate admissions process would no longer include conversations with alumni, sparking mixed reactions from members of the Penn Alumni Ambassador Program.
(07/29/25 4:05am)
In the public conversation, tennis is less popular than sports like football, basketball, and baseball. And at Penn, school spirit towards athletics is sadly already low. But Penn women’s tennis has a special appeal — and is arguably underrated on campus. The strong performance of the players, the engaging multi-match style, and the unique environment of Penn Park make it easy to be a fan of women’s tennis.
(05/16/25 5:14am)
With graduation right around the corner, here are the best graduating women’s student-athletes in the Class of 2025.
(05/16/25 12:49am)
The Woodlands Cemetery is only two blocks from Penn’s campus, but it couldn’t feel further away. With its 18th-century mansion, winding brick paths, Victorian funerary monuments, and over 1,000 species of trees, it’s a different world, one that takes you out of the Penn bubble and 21st-century Philadelphia.
(05/16/25 12:51am)
My education at the University of Pennsylvania is cleanly severed into two eras: BDP and ADP, also known as before The Daily Pennsylvanian and after the DP. I joined the DP at a time most student journalists would consider late: my junior year, and with it came a sharp change to my life.
