Bushnell settles in as College dean
Newly minted College Dean Rebecca Bushnell has already stamped her character on the office vacated by Richard Beeman at the end of last year.
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Newly minted College Dean Rebecca Bushnell has already stamped her character on the office vacated by Richard Beeman at the end of last year.
Reporting that social norms campaigns fail to reduce alcohol abuse on college campuses, Henry Wechsler and a team of researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health released the results of their controversial study earlier this month.
Starting with the Class of 2005, medical students across the country will have to pass a new Clinical Skills Examination -- testing observation, diagnosis and bedside manner -- if they wish to continue their careers as licensed interns.
Even in times of a less-than-stellar economy, a business degree is seen as a valuable pursuit, according to the results of a recent study.
U.S. News & World Report's recently announced decision to no longer consider schools' "yield rates" when ranking colleges and universities has left industry professionals unexcited.
Rev. C. Stephen White, known on Penn's campus and at colleges around the country as "Brother Stephen," is in police custody following his arrested on July 2 for allegedly approaching a fourteen year old male and offering to pay to perform oral sex on him.
Scott Liell gave a well-received presentation on Thomas Paine at the Penn Bookstore last Monday, praising the fiery patriot's contributions to the American Revolution and promoting his own new book, 46 Pages: Thomas Paine, Common Sense, and the Turning Point to Independence.
The University launched the Ivy League's first undergraduate program in criminology last Thursday, creating a new major in the College of Arts and Sciences to complement the masters and doctoral programs already available at Penn through the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology.
Judith Rodin is about to complete a successful decade as president of a leading research university, the apex of a long series of prestigious academic and lucrative business appointments.
The next strategic plan, appointments of several top administrators and approval of the next fiscal year's budget topped the agenda for the University Board of Trustees, who convened last Thursday and Friday for their annual meeting.
By spencer willig
The public land on the east bank of the Schuylkill belongs to the citizens of Philadelphia. And this coming fall, some of them might even want to spend some time there.
New Jersey children in their state's care are being neglected and abused by the agencies trusted to care for and protect them, according to a report released Monday by School of Social Work Dean Richard Gelles.
After a chunk of concrete fell from the South Street Bridge late last week, the city has initiated random inspections of about ten bridges "of the same general type... and of the same general age" as the 80 year-old bridge according to Philadelphia's Chief Engineer and Surveyor Joe Syrnick.
The South Street Bridge, was closed to vehicles and pedestrians late this afternoon due to structural problems. Both westbound lanes of the Schuylkill Expressway were also blocked off as of Thursday evening.
International students planning to exit and re-enter the United States during the course of their educations would do well to read up on the Department of Homeland Security's current procedures and protocols -- and pack plenty of extra socks, just in case. There might be a wait.
Music. Merriment. Meatballs.
Future executives might be feeling stabs of conscience, according to a survey recently released by the Aspen Institute.
Nicknames, inside jokes and potshots at poorly done reality television shows abounded at the graduate program of the Annenberg School for Communications' commencement Monday.
The wrongful death suit brought by the estate of Michael Tobin against the University landed in Philadelphia's Court of Common Pleas on Monday, two years after it was first filed and over four years after the accident that claimed Tobin's life.