The Student Committee on Undergraduate Education works to advocate for the student body in areas concerning academics.
Wharton and the NFL to tackle race and sports in Friday panel
The two-hour radio show will be divided into three panels, which will feature past and present NFL players, civil rights attorneys, a sports commentator and a professor.
New computer science class dreamed up by enthusiastic students
Most computer science courses are born from a professor's research or are part of a prescribed track within the major. But CIS 399: Foundations of Data Science — newly offered this semester — began with a few students and a good idea.
Penn Tutoring Center experiments with 'professor letters' to recruit well-performing students
This semester, Penn ramped up its efforts to recruit high-achieving students with a more personal form of outreach.
Wharton and the NFL to tackle race and sports in Friday panel
The two-hour radio show will be divided into three panels, which will feature past and present NFL players, civil rights attorneys, a sports commentator and a professor.
New computer science class dreamed up by enthusiastic students
Most computer science courses are born from a professor's research or are part of a prescribed track within the major. But CIS 399: Foundations of Data Science — newly offered this semester — began with a few students and a good idea.
Penn Professor Robert Ghrist hopes to make math fun
Professor Robert Ghrist, a member of the Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) program, wants to make higher-level mathematics more accessible to the masses by developing new methods to make math more enjoyable.
Lecture series targets religion from a psychological perspective
Tuesday's lecture on “Psychoanalytic Perspectives” was the second in a series of public lectures hosted until April.
From all corners of Penn: stress, its challenges and solutions
The Daily Pennsylvanian discussed the challenges of Penn's elite academic culture with four Penn students from various schools and departments.
The world's countries, ranked — by Wharton
Germany is the world's top country, followed by Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States, according to a new rankings project involving Wharton.
Profs disrupt trend of low-rated calculus classes
Google “Math 114 UPenn” and you’ll find yourself on a page that can be summed up in one word: outdated.
8x more classes in Arts and Letters sector than Living World this semester
This semester the College of Arts and Sciences offered only five courses that fulfilled the Living World sector, four of which were closed a week before the add deadline.
Monkey behavior gives clues to human friendship at Science Cafe
New Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Michael Platt kicked off this year’s 2016 Science/Lightbulb Cafe lecture series with a discussion on the biological roots of friendship.
Construction continues for Perry World House
Once opened, it will function as a home for everything international at Penn.
Members of the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project's student advisory board hope to connect students to the quality of life research done by the project to foster self-actualization in the student body.
Applying early to Penn Law: What should you know?
Penn Law releases its decisions on a rolling basis, but all early decision applicants will know by the end of January. What should current Penn students know about applying early?
Penn Bookstore advertises rental options as textbooks become increasingly expensive
More than 80 percent of titles are available for rent.
Academically isolated
When College seniors Sophia Hu and Connor McLaren first stepped onto Locust Walk four years ago, they were the first signing Deaf students to enter Penn in over 15 years.
Faculty, student panel talks insensitivity in the classroom
A panel of Penn faculty and students came together to discuss classroom culture on campus and how perceived insensitivities regarding race, religion and sexual orientation have the potential to create uncomfortable learning environments.
Penn hires 17th interdisciplinary prof. through recruitment program
Aviv Nevo specializes in using empirical data to analyze consumer behavior and currently teaches at the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University.


















