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Editor's Note: This article has been updated to reflect Penn Admissions' decision to reach out to students directly rather than publicly make an announcement.
Penn’s Collegium Institute kicked off a conference on the philosophy of finance Tuesday night with a panel discussion on the future of economic and political systems.
Penn was ranked the 11th best university in the world by Times Higher Education, which publishes an annual report of the best global universities.
In just over a week from now, we will reach the one-year anniversary of the publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's landmark special report on "Global Warming of 1.5 ℃." Comprising the findings of 6,000 scientific studies, the report’s central exhortation is that humanity must do everything in its power to limit atmospheric warming to 1.5℃ — requiring, the report reads, global mobilization at a scale that has “no historic precedent.”
Penn Museum is hosting an interactive pop-up art installation this week to commemorate over 3,000 migrant lives lost at the border between Arizona and Mexico.
A range of speakers gathered at the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy this Friday to discuss why inequality is not an issue of skewed wealth distribution alone.
Philip Esformes, the parent who bribed a former basketball coach to help ensure his son's admission to Penn, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for a $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme.
For most international students at Penn, summer brings a long-awaited opportunity to travel home and reconnect with family and friends. For fewer, returning home means resuming a position on a senior national team.
With August comes move-in. With November comes Family Weekend. With May comes graduation. Each of these events brings me a familiar sense of sadness and longing. On Locust Walk, I see brothers, but not mine. I see grandparents, but not mine. I see families, but not mine.
With one player each from Canada, Croatia, Poland, and Russia, the 2019 Penn women’s tennis roster features 10 student-athletes who represent a greater number of countries than they do states. Ever since coach Sanela Kunovac took the reigns of the program, however, that kind of roster composition has been anything but abnormal.
Esports, or professional video game-playing, is set to gain a foothold in Philadelphia with the construction of a $50 million video gaming arena.
Less than a week after news broke on the nationwide admissions scandal, John Legend, a 1999 College graduate, criticized the college admissions system for being "rigged" while at the iHeartRadio Music Awards on Mar. 14.
When I heard a fellow student say to his friend, “He made a living by cheating and taking standardized testing for other people,” I immediately thought, “Oh! Another Suits fan.” One of the protagonists in the legal drama television series did exactly that. Minutes later, I opened a link my editor had sent me. The headline wrote, "Actresses, Business Leaders and Other Wealthy Parents Charged in U.S. College Entry Fraud,” and I knew the pair of friends were talking about something much more serious than Suits.
Philadelphia is ranked as the city with second most aggressive drivers.
On Thursday, Penn Athletics announced that the remaining four home men’s basketball games will be broadcast live in Mandarin. Calling the games will be four Penn graduate students who are Chinese natives and speak fluent Mandarin. The contests will be shown in both English and Mandarin on ESPN+ in the United States and on Stretch Internet internationally. In China, the multinational technology conglomerate Tencent will simulcast the Penn broadcast.
By 2080, Philadelphia's climate will feel like today’s Memphis, Tenn. if current trends persist, according to a recent study. The report projects that Philadelphia's typical winter temperatures will rise by about 9.1 degrees Fahrenheit.
Upon seeing Urooba Abid’s article in The Daily Pennsylvanian on Monday morning, I will admit I was a little taken aback by the headline.
1982 College graduate Daniel Greenstein, newly elected chancellor of Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education, said his interest in higher education started when he was a history major at Penn. He was officially sworn in last week and now oversees and develops policies for the state's public universities.
Developed in 2012 by scientists at the University of California at Berkeley, “CRISPR” is a procedure that could allow scientists to edit the human genome more cheaply and effectively than ever before. Since its introduction, much has been speculated about the double-edged nature of the technology: It could bring about an end to some of humanity’s worst diseases, but it could also bring about the dystopia of genetically modified humans and “superbabies.”
Expect big things from the wrestlers in the Class of 2022.
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