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(03/20/17 1:16am)
Forget elementary English grammar books, banal conversation topics and grades. William Kelly’s "Slanguage" class, held every Tuesday at the Christian Association at the University of Pennsylvania, takes an unconventional approach to teaching English to non-native speakers.
(03/16/17 3:05am)
When Hurricane Sandy hit the east coast in 2012, Bianca Reo Charbonneau— a biology doctoral candidate at Penn— was one of many looking for ways to help out the affected local communities.
(03/15/17 12:23am)
Daniel Kelly, an expert on cardiac metabolism, has been appointed director of the Penn Cardiovascular Institute, effective August 2017.
(03/13/17 2:23am)
Penn’s Political Science Department boasts three winners of one of the most prestigious awards in the field of international relations: Edward Mansfield, Beth Simmons and now, Political Science professor Michael Horowitz, who was recently selected as the 2017 recipient of the Karl Deutsch Award by the International Studies Association.
(02/28/17 8:19pm)
Canvas and some Penn web services, as well as a number of websites across the internet, experienced outages throughout the day on Tuesday.
(02/28/17 3:53am)
M. Louise Baker was a renowned feminist, Quaker, illustrator and archeological hero, which is why Senior Archivist Alessandro Pezzati at Penn’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology jumped at the opportunity to obtain Baker’s suitcase, left unopened for more than 50 years.
(02/22/17 4:35am)
Penn in the 1990s would be unrecognizable today. Where the Penn Bookstore and Fresh Grocer stands now, there were asphalt parking lots. Students would rush, rather than walk, from one place to another to avoid staying out on the streets for too long. Campus was dimly lit at night and crime was much more common. Penn did not feel safe, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush told The Daily Pennsylvanian in 2014.
(02/22/17 3:12am)
Fox News has added Ezekiel Emanuel as one of its contributors.
(02/16/17 3:24am)
For students interested in learning homebrew chemistry, bartending, ballroom dancing and other skills not ordinarily taught in school, Penn's Preceptorial Committee has got them covered.
(02/15/17 1:18am)
The Zika virus may be mostly out of the news after its summertime peak, but Penn Medicine is still actively working to combat the spread of the disease.
(02/08/17 8:19pm)
The School of Veterinary Medice is at risk for losing approximately $30 million in state funding for the next fiscal year.
(02/07/17 4:57pm)
“Know your history, know yourself! We are not your model minority,” students declared at a protest held in front of College Green on Monday afternoon.
(02/06/17 11:18pm)
The Penn administration has not remained silent in light of President Donald Trump’s recent immigration ban.
(02/01/17 8:59pm)
At the LOVE statue near College Green at noon today, Penn students, faculty and staff came together in solidarity with those who have been affected by President and 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump’s recent executive orders targeting immigrants and undocumented students.
(02/02/17 2:30am)
As a young girl growing up next to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Lauren Sallan was fascinated by fish and hoped to one day become a marine biologist. Several decades later, her passion eventually landed her a talk on the TED stage.
(01/31/17 2:19am)
The online education company Coursera has once again partnered up with Penn to launch a program specifically designed for governments and nonprofits in an effort to close an increasing skills gap in the workforce.
(01/26/17 11:04pm)
Starting next school year, the Penn Reading Project will no longer be a solitary activity.
(01/25/17 1:27am)
Two Harvard University administrators were targeted last week in a blog post on "VDARE," a white nationalist website promoting strict anti-immigration laws. The post, titled: “Break Harvard And Arrest Rakesh Khurana and Loc Truong,” bashed Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana and Director of the Office of Student Life Loc Truong for their stated support of undocumented students.
(01/23/17 11:38pm)
Peter C. Nowell, a former Penn professor and 1952 graduate of the School of Medicine who revolutionized cancer research, died at the age of 88 on Dec. 26 in Newtown Square, PA.
(01/20/17 2:11am)
The National Institute of Health recently awarded Penn Medicine a $12 million grant to fund a new program to study the human pancreas and type 1 diabetes in unprecedented detail.