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Amid ongoing efforts for greater inclusion, the Office of the Provost now requires all faculty members involved in faculty searches across schools to undergo unconscious bias training.
Nearly two dozen rooms in the Quad have experienced serious mold issues, forcing students to temporarily relocate and prompting some health concerns.
The blockchain wave is catching up fast with Penn. This semester, Wharton is offering its first full-credit blockchain course for both undergraduate and graduate students.
While faculty diversity has been improving at most of Penn's twelve schools, the School of Dental Medicine, School of Design, Wharton School, and School of Social Policy and Practice have experienced a trend in the opposite direction.
Modern breakthroughs in the science of artificial intelligence have made robots more and more human. But as this year’s internship recruitment season winds down, I wonder if my fellow Penn students have lost a bit of humanity in the process.
The Interfraternity Council announced last March it was looking to introduce a diversity chair position to its executive board. A year later, however, the IFC board is still without a diversity chair and is no longer searching for one. Instead, the group is looking to address diversity in other ways.
As part of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology's new series of integration initiatives, the inaugural M&T summit was held Saturday at the Singh Center for Nanotechnology with a focus on health.
Spring break is now in the rearview mirror, and graduation is just around the corner. The job market, somewhat surprisingly, has remained strong, which makes it all the more likely that many seniors have already found jobs. If you are a senior who does not have a firm plan for next year, it may seem like everyone you know has a job, a graduate school acceptance, or a fellowship all lined up. This is especially true at a school like Penn, where so many students wrapped up their job search during the fall semester, when popular industries like banking and consulting make their offers.
Many students will take part in the new Eco-House: Environment Residential program, which will launch in fall 2018 and looks to create a sustainability-focused form of housing.
While many students across the country are still making their plans for the coming summer, some students at Penn are thinking two steps ahead for jobs and internships in the summer 2019.
Penn engineers, under the leadership of the School of Engineering and Applied Science Dean Vijay Kumar, have developed a group of drones that can navigate on their own with unprecedented precision, according to an article from The Inquirer.
On Nov. 9, 2016 — the day after Donald Trump stunned the nation by winning the United States presidency — Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania was packed to the brim. That day’s University Council meeting, a routine administrative gathering of Penn’s student, faculty, and staff leaders, had become a hotly anticipated event.
The Penn Professional Staff Assembly sponsored a talk with Penn Provost Wendell Pritchett on Jan. 30. Roughly 50 staff members gathered in Claudia Cohen Hall to hear Pritchett discuss a variety of topics that he chose, from his personal background to University initiatives in the broader Philadelphia area.
Roughly 50 members of Penn's staff crowded into the Terrace Room of Claudia Cohen Hall at midday on Tuesday for a conversation with Provost Wendell Pritchett.
As the classic song goes, “anything you can do I can do better.”
Philadelphia has been selected as one of 20 finalists in the bid to host the second headquarters for tech-giant Amazon. Since the company first began searching for a host city in September 2017, more than 230 cities have vied for the winning spot.
Penn recently announced the creation of a committee to help select the new vice provost and director of libraries.
Finally: No more awkward laps and no more unplanned run-ins with your freshman roommate. Students can now book a table at Starbucks Under Commons — if they are in Wharton, that is. As of next Monday, Starbucks Under Commons will officially be renamed Jon M. Huntsman Hall Under Commons.
It’s no secret that most Penn students want to be the next Elon Musk. I know I do. But as venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel wrote in his book, “Zero to One,” every moment in business is singular: “The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network.”
Search committees to select new deans of the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Dental Medicine were formed this week, according to an announcement from Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett.
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