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There were plenty of great moments from Penn Athletics over winter break. A 36-year-old pool record was shattered, Penn men's basketball took down Princeton for the first time in four years, and Penn women's basketball's Eleah Parker won three straight Ivy Rookie of the Week awards.
College freshman William Steinberg, 18, was among 10 American tourists who died in a fatal plane crash on Dec. 31. Steinberg, who was traveling in Costa Rica with his family, died when his plane, which was traveling from the resort town of Punta Islita on the Pacific coast, crashed into a mountainous region.
Three games in just under four weeks. That’s a lot of downtime.
Former Vice President and Penn professor Joe Biden published an essay criticizing the Trump administration for its inaction against Russian interference in American politics, calling on Congress and American citizens to “protect Western democracy.”
The rapper Robert Rihmeek Williams, better known as Meek Mill, has been denied bail multiple times in the past week.
A Penn student has won $100 for spelling "prospicience" in the "Steiny-D Spelling Bee," the first of its kind, held on Nov. 28. The word "prospicience," that means "the act of looking forward," was the winning word given to Wharton and Engineering junior Vatsal Jayaswal.
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Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney declared that the city's controversial statue of former Mayor Frank Rizzo would be moved from its current position outside City Hall, according to a report last week in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Hundreds of students, faculty and Philadelphia residents gathered at Irvine Auditorium on Nov. 1 to attend the annual Higginbotham Memorial Lecture featuring writer Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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An international panel of academics joined Penn professors in Perry World House last week to discuss the looming issue of state violence toward minority populations.
As midterm season is in full swing, countless Penn students are undoubtedly complaining about their professors and their various incompetencies. Unfortunately for students taking math courses, these problems are only about to get worse.
Harvard University's Athletics Department has launched a series of mandatory training programs for student athletes, coaches and department staff in response to a series of scandals involving sexual harassment and sexism, according to a report in The Harvard Crimson, the university's student newspaper.
Over 300 students, alumni and faculty gathered on Saturday to celebrate the LGBT Center’s 35 years at Penn under founding director Bob Schoenberg.
In one Wharton class, groups of students were tasked with creating Buzzfeed quizzes that would resonate with some target audience. Students used strategies they learned in this “Advertising Management” class to design their quiz, and some of them went viral on Buzzfeed, which was cool. Some of the other ones really sucked.
Students who disrupt guest speakers with opposing views can now get suspended, or even expelled, at the University of Wisconsin.
Professor Robert McElroy is nothing short of a genius. This venerated giant of Penn's Math Department graduated from high school at the age of 14, earned his PhD by age 20, and has spent the last 50 or so years coming up with brand new ways to make his students' lives a living hell.
Marci Hamilton, a 1988 Penn Law School graduate and a leading advocate for survivors of childhood sexual abuse, has just been hired as Penn’s third "professor of practice" in the Robert A. Fox Leadership Program in the College, according to an announcement by the University.
A new series of Penn fellowships have provided a platform for three faculty members to research issues of race, gender and health in communities of color, especially in Philadelphia.
After a long, drawn out decisions process last Sunday morning, Penn Hacky Sack Initiative made a critical move. They decided to to reject college sophomore Abby from their operations board, and boy has their image changed for the better!
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