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Before Penn's Board of Trustees announced that tuition will increase another 3.9 percent for the upcoming year, members of student government met with members of the administration and a trustee to advocate against the hike.
During the 2016 presidential election, Twitter gained a reputation as a platform for political discourse. To examine the effects of the website’s new role in politics, two Wharton professors studied the kinds of tweets that go viral.
It’s all in the recovery.
You can’t go very far as a sports fan without seeing something about advanced statistics. In football, it’s DVOA [Defense-Adjusted Value over Average]; in basketball, it's ELO ratings and usage rate; in baseball, it’s every other acronym.
Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine is partnering with the medical schools at Temple University, Drexel University, Thomas Jefferson University and Rowan University, as well as two pediatric hospitals, to form the Philadelphia Coalition for a Cure, a collaboration that will streamline brain tumor research and individualized treatment.
Two University of Pennsylvania Health System heart-surgery patients, Robert Gerngross and Marisa Karamanoogian, have accused Penn Medicine of failing to prevent them from contracting nontuberculous mycobacteria, an infection believed to be linked to the heater-cooler device used during open-heart surgeries.
In 1946, researchers at Penn’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering developed ENIAC, the world’s first general-purpose digital computer. The milestone is hailed as the beginning of the global computer revolution.
Philadelphia’s new tax on sweetened beverages officially went into effect last Sunday, and the new 1.5-cent per ounce fee has already led local stores to raise their prices.
Penn men’s basketball will take a vacation over the next few weeks, with its next game coming December 28 against Drexel at the Palestra. Christmas came early for the Quakers, though, after they stunned UCF with a 58-49 upset in Orlando on Monday night.
The world’s most successful notion of free government arose from what was called “the principle of the sovereignty of the people.” This principle viewed government as a regrettable necessity. Individuals assented to follow rules not because collective political wisdom was the best means of directing life, but because selfish human beings cannot reasonably be expected to interact equitably without some “regulating force” maintaining uniform rules of interaction. On this theory, the purview of the local government extended only over the interactions between one citizen and another.
When the Supreme Court ruled affirmative action constitutional earlier this year, it did so based partly on the long-held belief that there exist “education benefits that flow from diversity.” Even people who oppose affirmative action as a policy generally agree with this premise. The argument goes that a university ought to be a dynamic marketplace of ideas in which different people encounter different opinions, which is only possible if people have different backgrounds.
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Penn basketball found its Miami vice: turnovers.
In their season opener against Robert Morris last Friday, Penn basketball took an early lead and never looked back, running away with a 67-50 win.
According to the Cornell Chronicle, on Monday, November 14, Martha Pollack, provost and executive vice president of academic affairs at University of Michigan, was named Cornell University’s 14th president.
It was a big week for Penn sports, with three athletes receiving individual awards following a pair of weekend wins for football and basketball.
Behind 15 points and 10 rebounds from senior forward Matt Howard, Penn basketball cruised past Robert Morris in its season opener on Friday.
A man listed at 6-foot-11 and 265 pounds is inevitably going to leave some big shoes to fill.
Penn guard Darnell Foreman will look to win big league at Robert Morris this Friday.
Campaign season is just wrapped up, but another season is just getting started.
For the second time in just five days, Penn men’s soccer was taking on an Ivy League foe at Roberts Stadium in Princeton. But Wednesday night, their opponent was not the Tigers. Rather, the Red and Blue took on Columbia for the second time this season in a game with major Ivy League implications, scheduled just a few days ago as a result of Harvard canceling its season.
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