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(09/21/16 5:59am)
Most college professors have a passing familiarity with the protests that so frequently adorn their campus, but Graduate School of Education professor Jonathan Zimmerman has been studying the demonstrations across history.
(09/21/16 5:55am)
Residents of Hamilton Court are about to see an upgrade in amenities, but it may come at the cost of the old building’s history.
(09/14/16 4:45am)
Most Penn students were in middle school when President Barack Obama was inaugurated. As he nears the end of his second term in office, a stop in Philadelphia to campaign for Hillary Clinton marked one of his final opportunities to argue for his legacy.
(09/09/16 7:13pm)
A majority of Penn College Republicans do not plan to support their party’s nominee: 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump.
(09/08/16 3:18am)
As hundreds of freshmen were taking pictures for their PennCard or pushing their move-in carts into their new dorm, numerous Hillary Clinton campaign volunteers were ready to greet them with the question, “Are you registered to vote in Pennsylvania?”
(09/06/16 6:12am)
Philadelphia schools will soon have their drinking water tested for lead, but one Penn professor does not think the test standards will be sufficient for student safety.
(09/01/16 4:10am)
Charter schools, a mainstay in Philadelphia and other big cities, have become one of the few national issues embraced by politicians on both side of the aisle, including President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Cory Booker and Donald Trump.
(08/30/16 3:40am)
If you are craving some coffee in Penn’s campus area, you need not look very far.
(08/24/16 4:24am)
For college Republican chapters at Penn and across the country, November’s presidential election poses an existential question: whether or not to support their party’s nominee.
(07/28/16 4:24am)
In one of the first events at the Perry World House, top national security officials described the importance of the 2016 election and voiced their opinions of how disastrous it would be for national security to have Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as president.
(07/25/16 8:20pm)
Two Penn students voted and caucused for Bernie Sanders at the Democratic National Convention, even as Hillary Clinton remained the presumptive nominee.
(07/21/16 3:35am)
When police-involved shootings of black men and shootings of police officers in Dallas, Texas, and Baton Rouge, La. are shown constantly in the news and on social media, parents can feel conflicted. They might want to protect their children from exposure to these graphic events while also wanting to teach them about moral issues.
(07/14/16 3:13am)
While politics aren’t always associated with plants, the Democratic National Convention provided volunteers in June to turn a parking lot in West Philadelphia into a flourishing community garden.
(07/09/16 2:22am)
At 8:24 p.m. Friday night, the Division of Public Safety issued a UPennAlert reporting an attempted robbery with a weapon at 40th and Walnut Street.
(07/07/16 2:47am)
Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of the Tony award-winning Broadway show “Hamilton” and Penn’s 2016 commencement speaker, teamed up with former Penn President Judith Rodin to announce the Rockefeller Foundation’s commitment to send 100,000 public school students to see “Hamilton.”
(06/30/16 3:43am)
In the United States and every other liberal democratic regime, one can expect a degree of unfairness, according to Jeffrey Green, an associate professor of political science at Penn.
(06/23/16 4:05am)
Imagine you and your friends are ordering McDonalds on GrubHub and before you confirm your order, there is a red stop light signifying high calorie content next to your double bacon burger in the online cart. Would you keep it in your cart or switch it for a grilled chicken sandwich instead?
(06/21/16 8:18pm)
Chaka Fattah, U.S. Representative of West Philadelphia and a 1986 Fels Institute of Government graduate, was convicted on Tuesday, June 21 in a federal racketeering case.
(06/19/16 12:57pm)
The final days of the trial of U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah of Philadelphia have come. The trial was expected to last the whole summer, but it has now concluded after four weeks.
(06/09/16 4:03am)
The national debate about lead contamination in water supplies has flooded into Philadelphia.