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Penn is centralizing all course information on a new digital platform
The catalog is the first in a series of updates to Penn's information systems through the “Next Generation Student Systems” project.Webinars, tours and a gnome scavenger hunt: welcome to graduate NSO
The program has various interesting events but struggles to get more graduate students involved.
Need to hit the books when NSO ends? Here's where to do it on campus.
How to perform the first part of Penn's "work hard, play hard" mantra.
Some professors assign homework over summer. Not everyone is against it.
Some students don't mind homework over the summer if it lightens the workload during the semester.
Five tips on being international at Penn
“At times you’ll feel homesick or slightly uncomfortable, but they’re always people and resources at campus,” College and Engineering sophomore Raj Bhuva said.
Trolley tours, class picnics and a Wharton 'aptitude test': NSO's half-century history
A look into how NSO became the six-day, jam-packed affair it is now.
The Daily Pennsylvanian Guide to NSO
To mark the beginning of this fall semester, The Daily Pennsylvanian put together a series of the most interesting stories surrounding New Student Orientation.
This new tutoring program wants to give children of African descent a sense of pride in their heritage
The African Community Learning Program will allow children to explore their heritage through projects where they’ll investigate the culture of their homelands.
Photo Essay | Screen printing, honey tasting, and more at this year’s Greenfest
The semesterly event features various activities hosted by Penn's different environmental groups.
Too lazy to work out? These Penn professors are looking for a way to change that.
In a wide-scale new experiment, Psychology professor Angela Duckworth and Wharton professor Katherine Milkman are looking into how Penn students can be left wondering just how they can motivate themselves to stay in shape.
Wal-Mart is making a big push to recruit Ivy League graduates
"Walmart is not the sexiest brand to work for," College senior Aaron Lai told Bloomberg, but as a computational biology major, he found the analytics side of the retail industry interesting.
Penn wants to 'identify' off-campus groups, but no clear plan exists for making them comply
This task force was formed in response to an offensive email sent by off-campus organization OZ two semesters ago.
Graduate students wanted to vote on their labor union months ago. Here’s why they haven’t.
Penn contested the terms of a crucial vote at the National Labor Relations Board for three months, delaying the efforts of pro-union graduate students.
'Dartys' and 'Downtowns': a guide to NSO parties from rising sophomores
“I felt a bit of pressure [to attend parties during NSO] but it was more because I wanted to make as many friends as I could and going out was a good way to do that."
Penn tops the Ivy League for employability, according to new report
Princeton University had the lowest score — 48.3 percent lower than the Ivy League average — according to the report from Indeed.com
Meet the biology professor who just became the new College dean
Paul Sniegowski is an avid biker known among colleagues and students for his friendliness and sense of humor.
One Penn researcher is working to allow robots to 'feel with their eyes'
You might have seen fifth-year Ph.D student Alex Burka walking around campus with his “Proton Pack” — a large orange backpack equipped with sensors that collect information from various surfaces. This is why.
A vintage store is replacing the American Apparel on Walnut Street
Raxx Vintage offers men’s and women’s clothing from the 1960s through the 1990s. Store manager Lauren Saslow said merchandise would be made a little more preppy to appeal to Penn students.
'SABS-ing,' MERTed and more impossible acronyms — here is your guide to Penn lingo
On Campus Recruiting, also known as OCR, refers to the period where companies send representatives to Penn's campus to interview students for post-graduate jobs and summer internships.