Skip to Content, Navigation, or Footer.
Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026
The Daily Pennsylvanian
The Daily Pennsylvanian

Cardiac arrest has a 70 to 80 percent mortality rate and affects almost half a million people per year. From CPR to faster emergency services, various methods have been used to lower those numbers. But according to a new Penn Medical School study, other factors need to be taken into account - research found that the survival rate of cardiac arrest patients also depends on where the patient is taken for care.


Happy birthday, Ben Franklin. The Founder's Day Symposium commemorated Ben Franklin's 303rd birthday on Friday, capturing Franklin's values of "distinguished scholarship and global citizenship," said University President Amy Gutmann. The event consisted of a panel - moderated by Gutmann - of five academic specialists who spoke about environmental sustainability.

Best note-takers, worst note-takers, no-note-takers: take note. You could be making money - or making the grade - on GradeGuru.com, the file-sharing Web site that pays you to upload your notes and allows you to download the notes of your peers for free. If it sounds like an impossible business model, it's because the year-old site isn't bringing in any revenue just yet.

The Latest

The Undergraduate Assembly held its first official meeting of the semester Sunday night, during which it reassessed last semester's projects and work done by UA members over winter break before launching into new issues. The main legislative proposals addressed included potentially low class attendance for today's presidential inauguration ceremonies and separate budget requests for UA funding by the pre-orientation programs PennArts and PennGreen.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy continues to live on in members of the Penn and greater Philadelphia communities. Last night, Alpha Kappa Alpha fraternity, the Multicultural Greek Council and Onyx Senior Honor Society hosted the annual candlelight vigil honoring MLK Jr.

At Chipotle, the line never ends. Yesterday the queue at the new restaurant stretched all the way out into the snow - an improvement over Thursday, when it extended outside to the Radian's front steps. Chipotle Mexican Grill held its grand opening on Friday, becoming the newest restaurant in the Radian apartment building at 3925 Walnut St.


The Daily Pennsylvanian

At Chipotle, the line never ends. Yesterday the queue at the new restaurant stretched all the way out into the snow - an improvement over Thursday, when it extended outside to the Radian's front steps. Chipotle Mexican Grill held its grand opening on Friday, becoming the newest restaurant in the Radian apartment building at 3925 Walnut St.


The Daily Pennsylvanian

Happy birthday, Ben Franklin. The Founder's Day Symposium commemorated Ben Franklin's 303rd birthday on Friday, capturing Franklin's values of "distinguished scholarship and global citizenship," said University President Amy Gutmann. The event consisted of a panel - moderated by Gutmann - of five academic specialists who spoke about environmental sustainability.


The Daily Pennsylvanian

Best note-takers, worst note-takers, no-note-takers: take note. You could be making money - or making the grade - on GradeGuru.com, the file-sharing Web site that pays you to upload your notes and allows you to download the notes of your peers for free. If it sounds like an impossible business model, it's because the year-old site isn't bringing in any revenue just yet.


The Daily Pennsylvanian

As prepared for delivery, provided by the Presidential Inaugural Committee. We are here to mark the beginning of our journey to Washington. This is fitting because it was here, in this city, that our American journey began. It was here that a group of farmers and lawyers, merchants and soldiers, gathered to declare their independence and lay claim to a destiny that they were being denied.


The Daily Pennsylvanian

On a day when the world's attention was focused on Washington, D.C., members of the Penn community who were unable to make the 124-mile trip could still catch the inauguration action on Penn's campus. The University's official Presidential Inauguration Celebration Program began at 10 a.


The Daily Pennsylvanian

Comedians may be more effective than politicians in addressing the tensions surrounding the current conflict in the Middle East. Noel Elgrably, Elham Jazab and Mike Batayeh, a group of Middle Eastern comedians who call themselves the Sultans of Satire, held a panel discussion Friday on the role of comedy in alleviating Islamophobia. The events were cosponsored by the Penn Middle East Center and the Levantine Cultural Center.


The Daily Pennsylvanian

President-elect Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and their two daughters, Malia and Sasha, began their inaugural journey at 30th Street Station on Saturday morning. But unlike his other stops along the way, Obama did not hold a public event in the city. In his prepared remarks, Obama addressed the small gathering of ticketed supporters in a private room within the station, telling them it was fitting to begin his journey in Philadelphia because "it was here, in this city, that the American journey began.


The Daily Pennsylvanian

Two separate leaks in a water line of the Quadrangle left residents without water for large parts of Tuesday and Wednesday - and plenty to say about it. The first water main break was identified last Friday, according to Jennifer Rizzi, a spokeswoman for Facilities and Real Estate Services.


The Daily Pennsylvanian

By SARAH RYU Staff Writer ryu@dailypennsylvanian.com Faculty and staff are almost unanimous: the hiring freeze implemented by the School of Arts and Sciences is disheartening but necessary. Last December, in response to the current national economic crisis, SAS Dean Rebecca Bushnell sent an e-mail to SAS faculty and staff that entailed cost-cutting adjustments, such as departmental budget reductions and salary freezes.




The Daily Pennsylvanian

"Just how valuable is Facebook "friendship?" Such is the question Burger King posed to Facebook users in its latest - but short-lived - advertising stunt. Calling it the "Whopper Sacrifice," the fast-food chain asked Facebook users to "de-friend" 10 people in exchange for a free Whopper.


Students take sides in Gaza crisis | With interactive feature

As Gaza burned and violence by Hamas and the Israeli Defense Force added to the mounting death toll of the current conflict in the Middle East, Penn students gathered on Locust Walk and College Green yesterday in protest, solidarity or both. They carried signs: "End the Genocide in Gaza"; "Israel We Stand with You"; "Zionism=Racism"; "Free the Palestinians from Hamas.


Bike Share Philadelphia hosts demonstration at Penn

As students straggled into the Penn Bookstore in the frigid cold yesterday, they were greeted by an unusual sight - a high-tech station full of sleek bicycles. Bike Share Philadelphia - an organization advocating for public transit via bicycle - held a demonstration station yesterday on the corner of 36th and Walnut streets to spread information about the cause and to let people try out their bicycles for free.



The Daily Pennsylvanian

Wharton is turning a disaster into a learning experience. Following the eruption of the current economic crisis, the University approved a new course: "The Economic and Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences and Policy Options." The course, which is pass/fail and earns students half a course credit unit, focuses on the intricacies of the economic situation.


The Daily Pennsylvanian

These days, finding a balance between academics and economics is crucial. That balance motivated the museum's administrators to discontinue 18 research specialist positions at the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology last November, effective May 31.



Most Read in News

Penn Connects