509 items found for your search. If no results were found please broaden your search.
Penn accepted a record-low 15% of early decision applicants to the Class of 2025, a significant decrease from last year's 19.7%.
As 2020 wraps up, this year will clearly be defined by the COVID-19 restrictions that began in March and persisted to varying degrees throughout the year. The scientific consensus is that lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, and social distancing practices were at least mostly helpful at preventing the transmission of COVID-19 in the United States. This evidence is further corroborated with the fact that, internationally, countries with less-stringent lockdowns had worse outbreaks than their neighbors, (Sweden vs. the rest of Scandinavia, the U.S. vs. Canada). Based on the scientific evidence and recommendations of top doctors, the COVID-19 restrictions that were put in place seem like a no-brainer. Yet, opposition to restrictions has steadily increased, and it seems that people are increasingly unwilling to stay inside even as super-spreader events lead to spikes in cases and deaths. Although misguided, this opposition to restrictions is very understandable, and is indicative of a recurring trend of the government’s failure to respond to the economic needs of the working class after significant global changes.
Nearly one-third of adults in the United States reported feeling symptoms of depression or anxiety in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent Penn study found.
Along with 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump's presidential campaign, there are 16 other Penn graduates who are running for governmental office across the country. They span across six states and the majority are running for seats in the United States House of Representatives. Nine are incumbents, while seven are running for the first time.
Any passive politics enthusiast knows that the outcome of this election is as unpredictable as ever. With the issues of race relations, climate change, and COVID-19 on the line, this voting season will determine whether the nation can heal after months of conflict, not to mention whether the elected candidate can reorient the US down a path toward sustainability. Current polls anticipate that former Vice President Biden will come out on top, though one can never be sure. As we learned in 2016, a candidate who does not win the popular vote may still be inaugurated due to the electoral college. Whether the US people favor this institution is another question, however.
With the expansion of early voting in Pennsylvania this year, many Philadelphia residents and Penn students have already cast their ballots and are encouraging others to do so weeks before Nov. 3.
On the heels of a summer of protests against systemic racial inequality and police brutality, universities nationwide are grappling with how to address racism on campus. While students, faculty, and staff are calling on Penn to join other colleges and institute a mandatory class on ethnic studies and anti-racism, the University maintains it offers enough courses and opportunities for learning in this area.
Penn Medicine's COVID Watch project was granted $2.5 million by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to study the program's impact on patient outcomes, especially on those whose communities have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Penn's athletes often go pro or transfer to continue their careers, but with the COVID-19 pandemic cutting seasons short and adding uncertainty to the future, the past few months have seen more movement than usual. Here's a roundup of what recent graduates are up to since their time on campus.
Imagine you are a College first year moving into the Quad in September of 1918. The War in Europe rages on, so you enlist as a trainee in the Student Army Training Corps, which will play an active role in your academic and social life, since a majority of Penn students are members. Two days later, there is a war bonds parade with 200,000 Philadelphians in attendance, leading to 658 new cases of influenza by October 1, igniting a local epidemic of a lethal global pandemic.
Throughout the current wave of the Black Lives Matter movement, many organizations at Penn have released statements of solidarity supporting the Black community. While some statements outline measurable next steps, others have taken on more of a general stance for championing equality. As we take this time to reflect on the fabric of diversity that makes Penn, Penn, we must also acknowledge the accountability many organizations have avoided and the lack of progress they have seen for decades. One of the most obvious forms of collective racism exists within sororities, a fundamental part of our Greek life system.
Next semester, a new class in the Spanish and Latin American and Latino Studies departments will use the coronavirus pandemic as a lens to examine social inequalities in the United States and Latin America.
On July 1, Erika James officially began her tenure as the 15th dean of the Wharton School. Her first morning on the job included a brief television appearance on ABC's Good Morning America.
On July 1, 2014 — exactly six years ago — Geoffrey Garrett began a new job that only 13 individuals had held before him: Dean of The Wharton School. Today marks his formal transition to his new role as Dean of the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.
This summer, I am cataloging and digitizing some of the letters sent to Samuel George Morton, the founding father of race science, whose research bolstered the antebellum pro-slavery movement. My exposure to his collection of crania, housed in the Penn Museum’s Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials labs, has made it abundantly clear that the Museum keeping the crania of the Morton collection is racist, oppressive, and a violation of basic human rights.
Eight minutes and 46 seconds. That’s all it took for George Floyd to be brutally killed by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. As the video became viral, so did the protests and cries for change. Yet, to fully understand the protests, we must look deeper into the underlying systemic racism that America is built upon. Historically, in almost all aspects of American life, racial practices continue to exist and thrive in all sectors of society. However, the most prevalent racialized system may be the criminal justice system.
Amid protests across the country, a global pandemic, and nearly a dozen primary elections, seven words on Twitter made national news. For the first time, the social media platform called out 1968 Wharton graduate and United States President Donald Trump for spreading misinformation to his 82 million Twitter followers.
As the nation reels from recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless Black individuals — prompting days of protests and law enforcement clashes — thousands of students and faculty are now demanding the University end its deep-rooted ties with militarized police forces.
Across the nation, colleges are grappling with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and rapidly working to announce finalized plans for the fall 2020 semester. The Daily Pennsylvanian is tracking the policy decisions of over 320 colleges across each of the 50 states.
College junior Misha McDaniel won a Beinecke Scholarship to fund her graduate studies in English literature.
Solutions by The State News
