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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.
Penn admitted 3,404 out of 42,205 applicants for the Class of 2024. At 8.07%, this year's acceptance rate is slightly higher than last year's, marking the first acceptance rate increase in five years.
On Monday, the Perelman School of Medicine announced Daniel Yoshor will serve as the new chair of the Department of Neurosurgery in the Perelman School of Medicine.
Erika James, who will become Wharton's first female and Black dean on July 1, hopes to continue to elevate the Wharton School's impact on the business world.
Erika James, dean of the Goizueta Business School at Emory University, will become the next dean of the Wharton School on July 1.
Nurses are best known for the time we spend at the patient’s bedside. We laugh with patients during some of the most joyful times and hold their hands through some of the most challenging moments of life.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro filed a lawsuit on Monday against the e-cigarette maker Juul Labs. Shapiro claimed that the company has been improperly marketing their products to young people and misleading customers about the health risks associated with vaping.
Students who planned to study abroad in China this semester will instead study at Penn due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé wrote in an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian.
Food. Everyone needs it, much of our social life depends on it, and most cultures pride themselves on their take on it. Eating at Penn takes place in many areas, from a snack on Locust to a multi-course experience on South Street. But one of the most common places to find food is in one of Penn’s five dining halls. For the past ten years, Penn’s dining halls (and nearly all food outlets on campus) have been managed by Bon Appétit, a California company which manages over 1,000 “cafés” across the United States.
A Chinese exchange student suspected of having the coronavirus at William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia tested negative, 6ABC Action News reported earlier today.
As cases of a deadly new strain of coronavirus increase in the United States and worldwide, the University has reported no cases of the virus at Penn or in Philadelphia but is currently monitoring the situation.
Penn admitted 19.7% of early decision applicants to the Class of 2024 — breaking nearly a decade of declining ED acceptance rates.
Penn received 6,088 early decision applications for the Class of 2024 — a more than 14% decline from last year's number of applications.
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