Academics

This Penn student created a registry that identifies veterans with similar health issues

The system will be especially helpful for veterans who were exposed to burn pits, a common occurrence in overseas bases.

Beloved Penn prof. Charles Bernstein, winner of highest award in poetry, set to retire

The influential poet recently won the Bollingen Prize, one of the highest awards for an American poet, for his book of "Near/Miss."

Penn video series compares medieval manuscripts to Star Wars

There are currently three videos in the series, all about five minutes long, which feature Hawk and Porter analyzing the Penn manuscripts in front of a green screen with Star Wars backgrounds.

New Penn Libraries browser extension provides 'seamless access' to articles off campus

The Lean Library Access browser extension allows students to access materials directly through an online search instead of through the Penn Libraries website.

With an eye toward the future, PennDesign trains students to design for a changing climate

The program aims to teach how to design structures that account for the instability presented by climate change, addressing issues such as major storms and sea level rise.  

Penn Medicine changes design for $1.5 billion Pavilion to optimize patient room layouts

Penn Medicine officials said the design plan will now allow for quicker room conversion, more greeting space for visitors, and patients will be able to change room conditions with new technology.

Perry World House offers $10,000 grants for faculty to make more courses 'policy relevant'

Students have been able to meet foreign leaders, attend conferences in other cities, and participate in realistic policy-making simulations. 

This class lets students vandalize, experiment, and learn unconventional writing styles

Every week, students receive an assignment such as "make the private, public" and complete it by creating a written installation anywhere except for on a page. 

Meet the Penn prof. who wrote 'Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism'

“When there are larger social safety nets in place … like health care, education childcare, and job protected maternity leaves, women do not have to marry for money,” Ghodsee said. “They can actually choose their partners based on who they like rather than who will pay their rent.”

In a Penn GSE class, students and professors swap roles for half the semester

Each week, students and professors discuss a different topic connected to cultural diversity, ranging from race, class, and privilege to disability, immigration, and globalization. 

As climate change chases animals from habitats, PennDesign plans to build World Park to help

Once constructed, one of the paths will run north-south from Alaska to Patagonia and another will run east-west from Indonesia to Morocco.

Penn Vet study finds increase in pet opioid prescriptions over past decade

Experts say the more opioids that are prescribed, whether for animals or humans, the greater the risk of abuse.

All Penn Dental students will be trained to administer Narcan by the end of the month

After several sessions, all Penn Dental students will officially be trained in administering the  medication that saves people from opiate-related overdoses.

With a $2 million grant, Penn faculty travel to Mosul to restore sites destroyed by ISIS

The initiative hopes to restore and conserve the city and its culture after the Islamic State destroyed important cultural sites of minority groups, such as Christians and Yazidis.

Penn grad students advise Philadelphia in housing Hurricane Maria refugees

5,357 evacuees arrived in Philadelphia County — more than any other metropolitan area outside of Florida, the Bronx, and Massachusetts. 

RealArts program offers grants for student internships in arts, publishing, television

This year, RealArts@Penn is offering 24 internships in industries such as publishing, television, and museum administration. 

Three Penn students awarded full scholarships to study in China for a year

Wharton senior Dotun Adejare, Wharton and Engineering senior Johnathan Chen, and Zhongyuan "Echo" Zeng, a candidate for a master's in city planning, received the scholarship last month.

Music Department ensembles give students practice, stress relief, and course credit

All members of the Penn community can audition to join one of the diverse musical groups, which range from the jazz group to the Symphony Orchestra and the Arab Music Ensemble.

Penn’s new medical humanities fellowship explores what it means to be a healer

The fellowship will consist of six seminars focusing on the human side of medicine rather than the technical side.

Some CIS courses are so overloaded that students wait more than an hour for homework help

"I could wait for 2 hours and still not have gotten help," Engineering sophomore Derya Yavuz said. "That's just a very frustrating situation, and it's like that every single time."