The myth of Spring Break
For many Penn students, Spring Break is no break at all.
For many Penn students, Spring Break is no break at all.
The convention to elect the next Democratic nominee for president will be held at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center on July 25, 2016.
For Wharton Women members, perks aren’t limited to just another networking event invitation.
According to Faculty Senate Chair Claire Finkelstein, though half of all Ivy League presidents are women, Amy Gutmann among them, Penn still ranks 11th in their proportion of male to female faculty out of 18 other comparable institutions.
The convention to elect the next Democratic nominee for president will be held at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center on July 25, 2016.
For Wharton Women members, perks aren’t limited to just another networking event invitation.
Recitations don't lead themselves — at the front of the classroom, teaching assistants must balance their responsibilities with their student obligations.
SHAWN KELLEY is a College junior from San Diego, Calif. His email address is skelley@sas.upenn.edu.
As youth, we also often forget that we are mortal. This is good, because it affords us the confidence to aspire for whatever we dream of without the stuttering stultification of self-doubt.
On Feb. 26, the University announced another tuition increase for undergraduate programs. This marks the sixth consecutive year that the tuition has been raised by 3.9 percent.
On Hey Day's 100th anniversary, it will cost students only $20 to participate.
33.2 seconds. Tie game. An NCAA Tournament bid on the line. In the end, experience trumped all as senior forward Steve Moundou-Missi drained a midrange jumper in the final 10 seconds to help Harvard claim its fourth straight automatic NCAA Tournament bid.
With Harvard and Yale playing a one-game playoff for the Ivy League's NCAA Tournament bid, here's a look at each team's two games against Penn.
Tennis balls, hockey and the Ivy League: All of that is a match made in heaven, right? Dartmouth Athletic Director Harry Sheehy asked the student body not to throw tennis balls onto the ice during the Big Green's playoff series against Princeton this past week. Since 1998, there has been a tradition of throwing tennis balls onto the ice at Dartmouth when the Big Green faces Princeton after the Tigers give up their first goal.
With news organizations like the New York TImes downsizing and making budget cuts, it was only a matter of a time before journalism schools followed suit. Columbia is set to shrink its journalism school, which is the only Ivy League graduate journalism school.
U.S News and World did more than just name the top law schools in the country: It named the top graduate schools in the country. While Penn Law ranked seventh in the country, Penn Nursing was named the top graduate nursing school in the country while Wharton ranked third among business schools.
UMass Amherst caused an uproar last month after it banned Iranian students from its graduate science and engineering programs, but after the University changed its policy, a United States senator is asking why. The State Department spoke to UMass Amherst, saying it doesn't necessarily ban all Iranian students and allows some to study sciences, engineering in graduate programs.
The Institute of International Education released its annual Open Doors Report on study aboard, providing data on the last 13 years of United States college students furthering their education abroad. In 2012-13, the most recent year with data, 76.3 percent of students studying abroad were white, the lowest during the 13 years.
For a few Penn professors, politics is not only something to teach — it’s something that runs in the family.
For basketball fans everywhere, there are a few moments involving typical pregame clothing -- or lack thereof -- that have become poignant over the years. In the early 1990s, Michigan's celebrated Fab Five donned plain blue t-shirts instead of their customary warmup jackets to make a statement about the money the university made off their likeness.