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These Penn students joined 700 entrepreneurs from around the world for the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Boston
Some Penn students are going as part of their work for Rough Draft Ventures, a venture capital company that supports entrepreneurship at the university level.
Penn students designed BuzzFeed quizzes in this Wharton class — and some went viral
The top quiz, titled “Choose Some Fall Things And We'll Tell You Which Taylor Swift You're Most Like,” gained almost 300,000 views.
Visas are an additional — and complicated — step for international students seeking summer internships
Students have to take additional classes and make changes to their academic load for a visa. Even then, various companies might reject them for being international.
Event observers and what they do, explained by Penn administrators
Of the 24 Event Observers, about one-third are Penn graduate and professional students; another third are staff members, and the final third are individuals affiliated with Penn.
Why Penn Public Safety officials were burning two mock dorm rooms on Hamilton Field
As the rooms were set ablaze, Upper Merion Chief Fire Marshal John Waters said, “Keep in mind, this could be your living room, your bedroom."
These Penn students smashed a car to raise funds for women's heart heath and hurricane relief
“I think it’s great timing. It’s the start of midterm season, we’re in the height of OCR, we have a lot of stuff we can get out right here."
To promote CIS, the UA wants to give students a certificate for skills in computer science
Members of the Undergraduate Assembly initially proposed having CIS count towards students' language requirements.
At this networking conference, black students sat down one-on-one with recruiters and alumni
The annual conference was geared toward underclassmen who are less likely to be going through on-campus recruiting, organizers said.
Under Trump's latest travel ban, some Penn faculty worry they may never see their families again
Persian literature professor Fatemeh Shams has been separated seemingly indefinitely from her Iranian parents, both of whom are poor in health.
Capogiro is set to close by next week
Capogiro co-owner Stephanie Reitano attributed the shop's closing to high rents and local competition.
A controversial critic of the Black Lives Matter movement spoke at Penn amid student protests
Under the midday sun, students held up signs to protest Heather Mac Donald who has argued repeatedly that the Black Lives Matter movement perpetuates a "war on cops."
An art exhibit on Penn's student suicides raises complex questions on how to balance sensitivity with dialogue
College senior Kate Jeon's installation chronicles the names of the 14 Penn students who have died by suicide since 2013.
Penn students, faculty and alumni work together at this after-school program for Latino students
“It’s particularly great to meet fellow Latinos in Philadelphia as I feel the Latino culture very strongly in my life," a student said.
Two students were elected to represent the College. Then they transferred to Wharton.
Less than three months after College sophomores Shane Goldstein and Vanessa Wanyandeh were elected to be the College Chairs for their Class Board, they transferred schools.
Exchange and transfer students compare Penn's mental health resources to their other universities
At ETH Zurich, eight counselors serve 20,000 students. At Penn, 45 clinical staff serve nearly 25,000 students.
These Penn students want to make menstrual products available for those who can't afford them
"When [people] don’t have access to menstrual products, then they can’t go to school, they can’t function properly at jobs, they feel overall embarrassed."
Why students are suddenly posting so many memes of food trucks hiking up their prices
A vendor said that between higher costs and new taxes, the food trucks “had to make a change.”
This new Penn student group combines philanthropy and networking
"The Locus Initiative" offers students networking opportunities to encourage them to pledge a percentage of their time and salary to charities.
Penn students love caffeine and eating healthy, according to this set of rankings
A study by the food delivery service Grubhub ranked Penn the No. 1 healthiest school among all the campuses that Grubhub delivered to.