After large endowment drop, modest budget cuts ahead | Interactive graphic
Although the value of Penn's endowment fell 19.4 percent in the second half of 2008, the impact on individual students is harder to discern.
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Although the value of Penn's endowment fell 19.4 percent in the second half of 2008, the impact on individual students is harder to discern.
For Engineering and Wharton sophomore Prateek Bhide, a day doesn't go by without hearing his classmates talk about grades.
Bower Field - home to club sports such as rugby, lacrosse, ultimate Frisbee and soccer - will be closing at the beginning of May to make way for the construction of Penn Park, an expansion of the current recreational and athletic facilities east of campus.
Penn is leading the way for research in nanotechnology.
Happy President's Day! We're going to celebrate by telling you how we spent that other holiday two days ago.
It's the time of year when Penn students, decked out in their best professional wear, race across campus to catch OCR presentations. But this year is a little different because many of the fixtures of recruiting have scaled back their hiring or disappeared altogether. High-tech startups have not been as hard-hit as the traditional college internship and post-college careers paths, but I think it's a career not many know a lot about.
The search is officially on for Penn's next provost.
This semester, the Graduate and Professional Students Assembly is setting up a number of events and proposals to improve life for graduate students, GAPSA Chairman and fourth year Ph.D. student Andrew Rennekamp said.
When Theodore Burnes, an openly gay professor in the Graduate School of Education, married his partner in Vancouver last month, he wasn't worried about facing discrimination when he returned to campus.
Engineering senior Ryan Goldstein's avoidance of child pornography charges was not unusual, experts say, since many people can escape some criminal charges by cooperating with authorities.
This last week, I read about 30 e-mails about events occurring on campus, received a dozen or so Facebook messages and had countless awkward confrontations on Locust Walk.
We can't help but feel that campus activity has grinded to a halt in honor of Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, and there's sadly no new issue of 34th Street this week to distract us. And not like we check the numbers obsessively or anything, but we've also noticed a major dip in this blog's traffic since sundown yesterday. We also feel a little sheepish being the only person around that's not fasting today. So, as usual, we decided to type our problems into Google and see what the search engine offered up in return.
When it comes to media spotlight, Penn is near - but not quite at - the top.
A robot that reconstructs itself after exploding. It sounds like an unstoppable cyborg played by a certain state governor, but the ckBot has a long way to go before it can come close to exterminating the human race.
Navigating Penn InTouch and registering for classes might be smoother sailing next year.
This year, the Undergraduate Assembly (UA), Penn's University-wide, elected branch of student government, will be more present on campus than ever before.
Understandably, banks have lost some of their luster as the most prestigious and douchebag-esque thing to do after graduation. What's taken their place? Oh, just this search engine thing, Google. Oh, you've heard of it? You were one of the bazillions of people who submitted your resume?
Wanted: an on-campus job for a self-starting, motivated undergraduate with attention to detail and the ability to work independently. Minimum wage, 10-15 hours per week. Please?
Penn's pre-professional environment can be extremely competitive, but when students return to campus in September, summer internships become a memory.
Penn President Amy Gutmann announced at the University Board of Trustees' Stated Meeting on Thursday that the University has appointed Marilyn Jordan Taylor as the new dean of the School of Design.