Academics
Persistent discrepancies in academic advising prompt renewed interest in improving the system
In 2014, nearly half of Penn students indicated that they were dissatisfied with pre-major advising and close to a third indicated that they were dissatisfied with their major advisors.
An 'academic freedom syllabus' aims to prepare scholars to face online harassment
The impetus for Rebecca Martinez's move was an Oct. 16 tweet by a Penn teaching assistant, which has singe gone viral.
Three Dartmouth professors are being investigated for charges of sexual misconduct
“We take these allegations very seriously and are pursuing our own independent investigations in coordination with law enforcement officials,” Dartmouth President Philip Hanlon said in an email.
Halfway into the semester, students in the 'Existential Despair' class are rediscovering a love for reading
“I’m seeing books as friends again and I’m making time for those friends,” Wharton junior Michelle Lyu said.
A Penn TA is under national scrutiny for using progressive stacking. But what is it?
Higher education experts, Penn student groups and former students of teaching assistant Stephanie Mckellop weigh in on the controversy surrounding some of her tweets.
This Engineering student is studying how open-source software projects can increase diversity within computer science
Judy Weng realized during her research that open source coding could hold the key to achieving greater diversity in computer science.
These Penn professors want to lower the rankings of schools that underpay adjunct faculty
"Administrators do care about these rankings," said English professor Nancy Bentley, who signed the petition calling on the USNWR to alter its ranking criteria.
In this PennDesign class, students develop models to prevent flooding and other natural disasters
With access to open data, three Penn master's students were able to accurately predict 72.9 percent of the flooding in the Calgary area.
More students and not enough space: CIS 120 teaching assistants say Penn isn't listening to them
Students and teaching assistants in CIS 120 have been pushed into overcrowded rooms with no electrical outlets for their office hours.
Penn's new Digital Humanities minor wants to bridge the 'chasm' between STEM and the humanities
“We've designed the minor in a way that reflects the fact that DH is not just one thing," Stewart Varner, managing director of Price Lab, said.
Penn researchers use genetic variations to disprove common views of race
These discoveries debunk the commonly held theory that skin pigmentation is a consequence of exposure to sunlight, proving instead that darker skin is the direct result of a specific genetic variant.
Penn researchers helped to develop a new vaccine for Zika that is both effective and safe
Participants in a clinical trial who received three doses of the GLS-5700 vaccine developed Zika-specific antibodies with minimal negative effects.
Penn just got $27 million to create autonomous teams of robots for the U.S. military
The project aims to create teams of specialized robots, rather than individual ones, that learn from one another in unknown environments.
The CIS department has the most cases of academic dishonesty — but not for the reason you think
One of the main reasons for the high number of cases of academic dishonesty is the CIS department's plagiarism-checking software, professors said.
Here are the courses that double-count for the spring of 2018
Fulfilling your College requirements can be tough. Consider taking a class that double counts to take some strain off.
Students across the country sat down at Penn this week to talk politics without having a 'screaming debate'
Penn's newly-established chapter of the Common Party, Cairn University and the Graduate School of Education co-sponsored the event.
Penn's Materials Science Department just received a $22.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation
This six-year grant will support the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter’s materials science research.
Why it matters that Penn physicists helped to locate and observe the collision of two dead stars
The detection of this collision is giving researchers an opportunity to analyze the expansion of the universe and the origin of heavy metals.
Five weeks and no grades: what happens when professors don't return scores before the drop deadline
“In my geology class, we haven't even turned in a single assignment. I didn’t know if I was doing anything right. It was pretty impossible to gauge where I was at,” College sophomore Eliza Halpin said.