Remembering Ryles’ charm
Amid the mourning at Friday evening’s memorial for College sophomore and urban studies major Alex Ryles, there was a “sweetness in the air,” University Chaplain Chaz Howard said.
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Amid the mourning at Friday evening’s memorial for College sophomore and urban studies major Alex Ryles, there was a “sweetness in the air,” University Chaplain Chaz Howard said.
Last spring, Annenberg School of Communications Dean Michael Delli Carpini was approached by black Ph.D. students concerned about the lack of race-focused communication classes. Instead of delaying the process by searching for another faculty member, Delli Carpini prepared and taught the course himself.
Penn’s cost-containment strategy has saved $59 million in the past year — already surpassing the orginal $58 million goal that was set for June 30, 2010, according to Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli.
The Penn Fund, which receives annual donations from seniors and alumni, is 13.4 percent ahead of where it was at this point last year, according to Penn Fund Executive Director Damon Cates.
By the Jan. 4 deadline, College freshman Molly Sprayregen still couldn’t access one of her grades on Penn InTouch.
Last month, final approval of Pa. State Senate Bill 1039 reduced appropriations for the School of Veterinary Medicine by nearly 13 percent from the originally approved budget.
While most undergraduate students only have to worry about classes, some graduate and professional students have the added responsibility of caring for their child. With the opening of the new Family Resource Center in Houston Hall, these students will have new parenting tools at their disposal.
When a group of students traveled to the Middle East as Ibrahim Middle East Leadership fellows to study inter-religious conflict last summer, they were required to develop a way to impact others based on their experience from the trip.
Wednesday night, Wharton and Engineering sophomore Tyler Ernst was elected Chairman of Lambda Alliance, the umbrella organization for groups catering to lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer/questioning students on campus.
As research grant applications rise amid economic uncertainty, some groups at Penn are facing disparities in the funding necessary to support demonstrated interest.
Set against the backdrop of a large banner displaying the signatures of students pledging not to condone violence, members of the University community spoke out against sexual assault for the second time this semester last night in the Penn Women’s Center.
When Lt. Dan Choi was stationed in South Baghdad a few years ago, he noticed that the Shi’a minority in Iraq were compelled to be “silent about who they were” for the sake of “political benefits, rank, privilege or money.”
The College’s Dean’s Advisory Board issued a survey last week to gauge students’ satisfaction with their majors. Results of the survey will be issued to individual departments.
When DuBois College House Dean Trish Williams asked residents not to bring “drunken [non-resident] friends” to the house to take care of them, Sanchit Kumar, a Wharton and Engineering sophomore who lives in DuBois, was surprised.
When College seniors Eric Augenbraun, Cami King, Joshua Bennett, Jon Howard and Chloe Wayne planned to launch the first Africana Studies undergraduate journal in the United States, their goal was to fill what they found to be a surprising gap in the academic community at large.
Students in Kenny Goldsmith’s class are working to define “queer voice” in art — which Goldsmith said nobody has been able to do easily.
When College junior Josh Tweedy arrived at Penn, he was male. He didn’t plan to disclose to anyone at Penn that he had been born female, and that 10 years before he had undergone sex reassignment surgery.
The recent incidents of sexual assault on campus have been spurred to further sexual assault prevention efforts in the form of a new group.
While student government members say the newly elected freshmen have increased their groups’ diversity, many also say that race shouldn’t be a factor.
Those traveling down Locust Walk last night stopped to join the crowd gathered around the Compass, where students and community members were speaking out against sexual violence.