Admissions consulting firms have been around for a while now, and with a constant flow of demand from both undergraduate and graduate students seeking advice on how to perfect their applications to various programs, the industry is flourishing.

Engineering senior Ayaka Nonaka has built two iPhone apps — one for the weather and one to-do list — for fun in the past month. As a computer science major, a teacher for the half-credit course Computer Science 195 and one of the organizers of PennApps, Nonaka has had extensive experience in programming but wanted to use these projects as “an exercise in programming, design and product development.”

You have two choices — either eat one marshmallow now, or wait and get two sometime later. Do you wait, or do you give in and eat the marshmallow?

In the course of keeping patients alive, medical ventilators can overstretch and injure the lungs, sometimes killing the patient. Engineering senior Jessie Huang has created a new scientific method that will help scientists who are researching this phenomenon.

This idea is for a dynamic and adaptable classroom that can be used for any class type, subject or situation. It will be equipped with different types of projectors, walls built as white boards and other forms of technology.

Wharton’s D.C. program has gained new leadership.

Penn has received a $10 million donation to fund the creation of a new “world house” on campus, the University announced Tuesday.

Despite the hype surrounding massive open online courses, some challenges remain for both students and educators.

The Undergraduate Assembly is throwing their weight behind the proposal to start a Native American studies program.

Education Week, which will last from March 18 to March 22, is hosting six different professors and administrators who will talk about one of six key aspects of the reaccreditation process that Penn is currently undergoing.

In February 2015, the infamous bar exam will change, but the Law School sees little reason to worry. The examiners of the Multistate Bar Examination are making fundamental alterations to the exam. They plan to add a new subject to the exam, Civil Procedures, and reduce the number of questions in other subjects to keep the total number at 200.

The “virtual” world might conjure up images of avatars, fantasy worlds or “The Matrix.” For Wharton students, it means something completely different. The Virtual Lab, launched this semester, gives anyone with a Wharton account access to the Wharton lab — similar to accessing one of the computers in Huntsman Hall — from any network connection.

The SAT, a rite of passage for many college-bound students throughout the country, will be undergoing a redesign.

At their biannual meeting last month, the trustees voted to create an Africana Studies department, a Masters in Bioethics Training program and a Masters in Integrated Product Design program.

The Religious Studies department will offer a class requiring students to abstain from using electronic and verbal communication, the internet and alcohol.

As its title implies, the ISP program — which was launched in the fall and is now entering its second full semester — is primarily focused on academics.

Over six classes in Wharton, the College and Engineering have undergraduate teaching assistants in introductory courses