Penn establishes office to respond to antisemitism, Islamophobia complaints
Interim Penn President Larry Jameson announced the creation of a new Office of Religious and Ethnic Inclusion in an email to the community Thursday morning.
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Interim Penn President Larry Jameson announced the creation of a new Office of Religious and Ethnic Inclusion in an email to the community Thursday morning.
Penn announced two new positions — the Vice Provost for the Arts and the Vice Provost for Climate Science, Policy, and Action — to promote the University’s strategic framework.
TEDxPenn will host its annual conference with the theme “Limits to Infinity" on April 6, featuring ten speakers from across artistic, scientific, business, and political disciplines.
A group of Penn professors filed a lawsuit against the University, alleging a pattern of "McCarthyism" for preventing speech in opposition to Israel and seeking to stop the University from submitting documents to Congress.
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Classes are back in session as the spring semester kicks off for the 2023-2024 academic year. Students are gearing up to join new clubs, audition for arts groups, and rush Greek life. Meanwhile, club leaders are suiting up for recruitment.
Recently appointed Board of Trustees chair Ramanan Raghavendran outlined his goals for the University, discussed how his background at Penn will inform his new role, and welcomed students back to campus in a written Q&A with The Daily Pennsylvanian.
Approximately 800 students were placed on the Penn Residential Services waitlist for on-campus housing for the 2024-2025 academic year — an increase from last year.
Penn faculty members expressed concern for the future of academic freedom on campus following a Dec. 12 email to the University Board of Trustees from Wharton Board of Advisors Chair Marc Rowan.
Ramanan Raghavendran — who currently chairs the board of advisors of Penn's School of Arts and Sciences — will take the helm of the University's Board of Trustees following Scott Bok's resignation.
Penn President Liz Magill and Board of Trustees Chair Scott Bok announced their resignations on Saturday following months of mounting scrutiny over antisemitism on campus.
Penn President Liz Magill announced her plans to resign in an email to the Penn community on Dec. 9. Minutes later, Scott Bok wrote he is stepping down from his position as the chair of the University Board of Trustees, according to a statement from Bok obtained by The Daily Pennsylvanian.
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Penn community members expressed concerns about antisemitism and Islamophobia on campus at University Council's open forum.
A group of Penn students founded The FGLI Podcast this semester, aiming to streamline and promote resources and information for first-generation low-income students at Penn.
Prior to Penn, I had never studied computers. I came into my first computer and information science (CIS) lecture feeling intimidated. However, I enjoyed it and every lecture thereafter. My entry into the world of computer science, albeit late, made learning a seemingly scary subject that much more exciting and mentally enriching. Having used computers at the very basic levels thus far, CIS opened new vistas because now I started thinking about and understanding how things work at the hardware, software, and logical levels – things I was previously impervious to until I initiated my CIS journey at Penn.
Sarah Banet-Weiser has been named the next dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, according to an announcement from Penn President Liz Magill on July 18.
Two new GPT-powered websites, CramGPT and Penn Course Search, were recently introduced to the Penn community.
Researchers from Penn and OpenAI found that 80% of the U.S. workforce will have at least 10% of their tasks impacted by GPTs.
Before coming to Penn, I made the goal for myself that by the time I graduated college, I would be, at the very least, trilingual. I am a native English speaker, studied Mandarin for 15 years from preschool to high school, and am now learning Spanish at Penn. However, by the end of my fourth semester of Spanish, I doubt that I will be able to call myself trilingual.