During this week’s meeting, the UA delved on the prospect of a new research-oriented pre-orientation program: also discussed was the creation of a new mental health forum and the new “Got Consent?” campaign.

Recently opened Center for Minority Serving Institutions is the first of its kind.

Dean of the Office of Admissions attributes an increase of 25 percent in the potential art majors to Penn’s new “Arts and Culture Initiative” program.

Penn’s Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program released its annual think tank rankings on Wednesday.

Penn senior, Sarah Foster, plans to finish her triple major at Penn and continue her scholarly pursuits on the Churchill Scholarship.

Put down your smart phone. The next big thing in computer science is analog computing.

Georgette Phillips will become the dean of Lehigh University’s business school effective July 1.

Several professors and the petition’s leader said that the plan to create these types of classes needs to be made more concrete before they can be successfully implemented in the curriculum.

The gift of more than 1,300 books came from Shirley and Marilyn Luber, wife and daughter of the late 1940 Wharton graduate and renowned Philadelphia art collector Gilbert Luber.

A recent study published in the Journal of Consumer Research shows that while images of products appeal to online shoppers, customers are likely to decide against a purchase if they are overwhelmed by too many images.

Penn professor Michael Kahana’s research found a link between episodic memory, “what happened when,” with spatial memory, or “what happened where.”

The Fellows program brings three distinguished writers, or “fellows,” to Penn’s campus every spring. The program includes a class, known as the Fellows seminar, and a public reading.

The research focuses on two angles: the factors that affect a student’s decision to participate in recruitment, and its effects on the student’s perceived social support.

Paleobiology is a small concentration in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science allows students to pursue research in related to the Earth before the emergence of humans.

Penn is the only school in the Ivy League that does not offer dance courses.

John Tresch, professor of the history and sociology of science, was recently awarded the 2013 Pfizer Award for Best Scholarly Book from the History of Science Society.

Minority-serving institutions are schools that work to provide education for students of color, specifically low-income students or students of underrepresented minorities.