A weekly roundup of news from around the Ivy League and the higher-education community
Browning, coordinator of Clinical Pastoral Education at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, was working his monthly night shift as the only on-call chaplain in the hospital.
According to SEAS Communications Director Joan Gocke, the Engineering School received about $11 million — or 21 percent of the school’s total research budget — in Department of Defense funding for the 2011 fiscal year.
Members from Penn Police, PennComm, Department of Fire and Emergency Services and AlliedBarton Security were awarded commendations of merit.
Miller, who formerly served as the vice chair for nominations of the NEC, sat down with The Daily Pennsylvanian to discuss some of his goals for the year ahead.
According to undergraduate department chair and music composition professor James Primosch, the Music Department will be adding more performance-based courses in the fall as part of an effort to emphasize the value of performance among music majors.
According to undergraduate department chair and music composition professor James Primosch, the Music Department will be adding more performance-based courses in the fall as part of an effort to emphasize the value of performance among music majors.
Browning, coordinator of Clinical Pastoral Education at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, was working his monthly night shift as the only on-call chaplain in the hospital.
According to SEAS Communications Director Joan Gocke, the Engineering School received about $11 million — or 21 percent of the school’s total research budget — in Department of Defense funding for the 2011 fiscal year.
Penn’s most innovative entrepreneurs gathered yesterday to compete for the top prize at PennVention’s final Innovation Fair.
Under the lights for the first time at Penn Park, the Quakers came back from a deficit on two occasions and piled up a season-high 16 hits to beat the Dragons, 8-7.
The Penn Quaker marched off the football field and into Spruce Hill Christian School yesterday, pumping up the K-8 school’s Penn Fitness for Life mentor program.
Fordham’s story underscores the passions that a unique initiative like VIPER can ignite in prospective students. ADMIT SERIES: Part 1 ADMIT SERIES: Part 2 ADMIT SERIES: Part 3
In the city of Philadelphia, the mayor has effectively decided to ban the feeding of homeless in open parks.
Additional recommendation letters may boost or harm an application, according to admissions experts.
Last year, 43 percent of surveyed companies increased their staff sizes, a 26.5-percent increase from 2010, the report added.
No one can be defined. Asian Americans, through all their struggles, are not asking to be viewed as comic book victims or heroes.
The online platform allows users to ask questions to certified professionals and receive reliable answers.
The investigation following an armed robbery on a student which occurred on April 8 has come to a close.
An interactive game that educates soldiers about the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder is among 10 different games that will be presented at the School of Nursing’s Game Solutions for Health Care competition today.
Since tickets to the biggest track meet in the world are free, you have no reason to not go.
Though the Ivy League is considering instituting a four-team postseason basketball tournament, they should ultimately decide against it.
Golf has been in the Williams family since Jim Williams played at USC. Today, Scotty is the captain of the men’s team and Kelsey is a freshman on the women’s team. The oldest, Bryant was captain of the 2009-10 men’s squad.
Solutions by The State News
