Among freshmen traversing the Engineering Quad and hustling to introductory math classes, roughly four out of ten are women.
Before becoming residential faculty masters of Yale’s Silliman College, professor Nicholas Christakis and his wife Erika were educated at Penn.
A second Penn student will go to the U.K. on a Rhodes Scholarship next year.
he new course, Theater Arts 215, will focus on everything from dance theory to practice, and will involve a substantial amount of in-class experiential learning through movement and sensory experience.
Just as there are unique Californian, Jersey and Philadelphia accents, there are regional differences in the way people use sign language across regions of the United States.
Bianca’s Kids is a nonprofit organization dedicated to caring for children going through difficult times in their lives.
Bianca’s Kids is a nonprofit organization dedicated to caring for children going through difficult times in their lives.
Before becoming residential faculty masters of Yale’s Silliman College, professor Nicholas Christakis and his wife Erika were educated at Penn.
A second Penn student will go to the U.K. on a Rhodes Scholarship next year.
Wharton assistant professor Lynn Wu found that a person’s engagement in social communication, and not the financial value generated by their work, was the most indicative factor of job retention and promotion.
23 Penn scientists were presented the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their work on neutrinos.
In the episode, which was filmed in the David Rittenhouse Laboratory, Johnson and Rees used high-speed video to discuss the physics behind what makes a ball bounce.
For some, taking six classes a semester is a necessity. For others, it’s a satisfying choice.
The Department of Defense awarded Penn's GRASP Lab $5.5 million to develop autonomous flying robots.
During the middle of this semester, students in PHIL 247 welcomed a new instructor for the class centered on the theory of Karl Marx.
The Turner Social Impact Executive Speaker Series emphasizes using business acumen for good.
One professor’s legal victory means more content and less confusion for massive open online courses throughout the country.
Varying by department, teaching assistants at Penn see a decent pay rate for their work.
Penn students take advantage of the program less frequently than students at Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore and Haverford
Not only does Wharton offer higher salaries to its graduates - it provides a larger compensation package to its dean as well.
Next year’s freshmen are in for a treat: Their academic year has been announced to be the Year of Media, and unlike the many previous freshmen classes who were assigned to read novels, they will be instructed to watch and reflect on the classic film “Citizen Kane.”
Instead of working directly with the dangerous Ebola virus, the Penn scientists worked with non-infectious viral-like particles that have similar matrix proteins and bud in a similar form to Ebola
“What makes [Wharton] tough is the mentality ... not necessarily the course material,” Wharton and College sophomore Stephen Cho said.
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