Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey holds town hall at Penn Museum
(03/14/17 1:02am)
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) drew 700 spectators to Penn’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on Sunday night.
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Faculty sign letter of support for grad students' movement to unionize
(03/14/17 9:30pm)
Fifty-three Penn professors released a letter Sunday night in support of the graduate students’ movement to create a labor union.
This center in the law school is fighting addiction to opioids among veterans
(03/13/17 2:05am)
Penn Law professor Claire Finkelstein would tell you that our government does not always respect the rule of law.
Penn graduate students move closer to unionizing with GET-UP group
(03/04/17 2:20am)
A group of Penn graduate students made their unionization movement public on Thursday night, with an online statement.
Penn is one step closer to a centralized diversity office, thanks to the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly
(02/28/17 3:05am)
Wednesday’s Graduate and Professional Student Assembly meeting erupted into applause after the General Assembly unanimously passed a resolution for a centralized, University-wide diversity office.
Orange Coast College reverses decision amidst backlash, does not suspend student who recorded anti-Trump rant
(02/28/17 3:37am)
Orange Coast College issued a statement on Thursday revoking the suspension of a student who recorded his professor’s anti-Trump remarks without asking her permission first, the Washington Post reported.
These two new SEPTA buses will speed up transit in Philadelphia
(02/24/17 11:23pm)
SEPTA has announced plans for two new express bus services that will reduce travel time in Philadelphia, according to PhillyMag.
'Wall of Rejection' project encourages students to learn from their shortcomings
(02/20/17 9:02pm)
On a campus where success is celebrated constantly, visitors to the Annenberg School for Communication on Monday may have been bemused to find a tribute to failure.
A Calif. college student, who recorded his professor calling Trump's win 'an act of terrorism,' could now be suspended.
(02/17/17 11:52pm)
An Orange Coast College student is facing suspension after secretly filming his professor calling President Donald Trump's election "an act of terrorism," the Los Angeles Times reported. He is appealing the suspension.
These four tech startups received crucial capital from a student-run fund
(02/16/17 3:38am)
A student-run innovation fund has already provided capital to launch four Penn startups this year, and it’s only the beginning of second semester.
This Annenberg study finds that living in the moment may make people healthier
(02/14/17 2:32am)
A characteristic derived from meditation practices could make people more receptive to health campaigns, a recent study by the Annenberg School for Communication suggests.
Penn's graduate schools often lack cohesion. A new student leader wants to fix that.
(02/02/17 2:38am)
Penn’s graduate schools span a breadth of disciplines. With that comes challenges of social cohesion.
Harvard president pens letter in support of students threatened by executive actions
(01/30/17 10:04pm)
In a letter to the Harvard community on Monday, Harvard President Drew Faust outlined the university’s stance on Trump's executive order that imposed restrictions on travel to the United States.
This Wharton MBA grad made the Forbes 30 under 30 by 'democratizing' interior design
(01/31/17 2:08am)
2016 Wharton MBA graduate Emily Motayed made this year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 list for her $13.3 million online interior design company, Havenly.
Stressed? A College senior designed an app for that
(01/25/17 1:45am)
College senior Alex Pierson launched an app over the summer that is now spreading positivity all over the world.
Nine Penn professors sign letter criticizing Trump's selection of Ben Carson for HUD secretary
(01/24/17 2:06am)
Nine Penn professors were among several hundred academics to sign an open letter to federal officials opposing President Donald Trump’s appointment of Ben Carson as secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Philly Voice reported.
This new class will let graduate students redesign their own student government
(01/24/17 1:49am)
A new graduate class at Penn will give students the chance to redesign their student government — the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly.
Is 'power posing' actually effective? This graduate student says no
(01/18/17 1:37am)
"Power poses" — superhero-like stances that supposedly make us feel motivated — have been all over the news. However, fourth-year psychology Ph.D student Kristopher Smith, along with psychology professor in the School of Arts and Sciences Coren Apicella, conducted a study that refutes those recent findings.
With the help of cocoa and Amy Gutmann, this 2015 Penn graduate is promoting gender equality in Ghana
(01/12/17 7:40pm)
Penn students weren’t the only ones resuming classes this week — the Pre-K and kindergarten students in the inaugural class of Ghana's Tarkwa Breman Girls' School began their spring term as well.
Here's why Philadelphia schools are so closely connected to Penn's Graduate School of Education
(01/11/17 2:09am)
On Jan. 2, Graduate School of Education professor Kate Kinney Grossman’s class resumed, as did all of the classes in Philadelphia's public schools. This was not a coincidence: The Graduate School of Education's Teacher Education Program creates their calendar not to correspond with Penn’s, but to correspond with the local schools.