First-year analytics group boosts Penn basketball behind the scenes
Led by former Penn graduate student and current Penn math professor Nakia Rimmer, the Penn Basketball Analytics Group is in its first year of operation.
Led by former Penn graduate student and current Penn math professor Nakia Rimmer, the Penn Basketball Analytics Group is in its first year of operation.
Actor and filmmaker James Franco will be Cornell University’s keynote speaker at the 148th Commencement Weekend for Senior Convocation on May 28.
In an effort to clarify the series of events that informed our reporting, The Daily Pennsylvanian has created a timeline of our account.
Harvard College’s Undergraduate Council has officially started accepting applications for the "Open Harvard College" grant.
Actor and filmmaker James Franco will be Cornell University’s keynote speaker at the 148th Commencement Weekend for Senior Convocation on May 28.
In an effort to clarify the series of events that informed our reporting, The Daily Pennsylvanian has created a timeline of our account.
History was made by the Penn women’s swimming team at the Ivy Championships this weekend. The Quakers finished fourth overall at the Championships, which came to conclusion Saturday afternoon at the DeNunzio Pool at Princeton. Penn finished with 1,025 points, only behind three historic powers of Ivy League swimming, with Harvard, Yale and host Princeton making up the top three spots by the end of the weekend. The fourth place-finish was overshadowed by several individual performances — including eight school records — and the Red and Blue reaching the 1,000-point mark for the first time in the program’s history. Coach Mike Schnur was elated with his team’s performance, crediting the success on hard work that started way before the season even got fully under way. “Almost everything went right, “ he said.
Penn basketball topped Brown by a score of 79-74 on Friday night at the Palestra before falling 79-58 to first-place Yale on Saturday.
Records are made to be broken — and for Penn men's track, another record fell on Saturday. At the Millrose Games, distance runner Tom Awad continued his torrid pace — literally — as he set a new Ivy League record for the mile time.
All winning streaks must come to an end, and Penn wrestling’s 13-year string of victories over city rival Drexel came to an end Saturday night.
On Friday, Penn women’s basketball struggled to find the basket. On Saturday, they seemed incapable of doing anything but. And yet both games they cruised to double-digit victories.
Somehow, Penn gymnastics just gets better every week. For the third week in a row, the Quakers set a new season-high as a unit, logging a team score of 192.400 en route to a second-place finish behind host Rutgers and ahead of Temple and Ursinus.
This year’s Ivy Policy Conference, themed “Inequalities Across College Campuses,” will take place at Penn.
Ivy League degrees, which Penn students view as tickets to success, do not carry the same value with Americans across the country.
Contrary to the rumor that has circulated around college campuses for decades, the “brothel law” is not the reason why sororities at other universities are forbidden from providing housing for their members.
The Center for Minority Serving Institutions received a $5.1 million grant to support a program to increase the number of Latino professors working in the humanities in U.S. colleges and universities.
Penn Integrates Knowledge Professors Dorothy Roberts and Sarah Tishkoff have recently published a paper in the journal Science calling for the end of using race as a biological category in genetic research.
In response to the lack of females in the industry, FemmeHacks was started at Drexel University by Engineering sophomore Andrea Baric, who transferred to Penn from Drexel last fall.
Penn students registering for preceptorials this semester may have been surprised to notice some new offerings.
Student reactions to Caitlyn Jenner’s Wednesday evening appearance are mixed, although those within the LGBT community tended to be more critical of Jenner’s comments.