Academics
Wharton will defund Public Policy Initiative and let go of at least two staff members
At a Dec. 5 meeting of PPI research scholars, Katzenbach said this money will be available until current funds run out, attendees said.
In new ABCS course, Penn students will teach moral philosophy to high schoolers
Students will spend a part of each class figuring out how to distill complex philosophical ideas, and they will then go to teach philosophy in a Philadelphia high school once a week.
Tutoring center merges with Weingarten to help centralize learning resource information
The Tutoring Center, which was previously an independent entity, became part of Weingarten last summer, joining the Office of Learning Resources and Student Disabilities Services.
Two Penn students and one graduate awarded Schwarzman Scholarship
This year’s recipients are Wharton senior Andrew Howard, master’s student Zinan Chen in the Graduate School of Education, and 2017 Wharton graduate Malik Abdul Majeed.
Penn students earned honorable mention for policy proposal at national Fed competition
The College Fed Challenge is a team competition hosted by the Federal Reserve for undergraduates where teams create monetary policy suggestions for the Fed.
Paideia program to launch new spring courses on grit, civil discourse, and Chinatown
The four new classes aim to equip students with the tools to have meaningful and respectful discussions on complex political issues, the program’s faculty director Michael Carpini said.
New Engineering ABCS course will promote energy education in Philadelphia high schools
As part of the course, students will teach a group of AP Environmental Science students at West Philadelphia High School about energy use and energy efficiency.
Students criticize inflexibility of course applications but praise diversity of classes
Students said they appreciated having different perspectives in their courses but would prefer more transparent and flexible application processes.
Penn Medicine alum donates $6 million to health care management program
PennHealthX is a student-led organization that integrates business and medicine for students who are interested in healthcare management and entrepreneurship.
Faculty diversity report reveals an increase in minority and female professors since 2011
According to the 2019 Action Plan for Faculty Excellence and Diversity, 35% of University standing faculty are female and over 8% are underrepresented minorities.
Penn mandates students return from study abroad in Hong Kong amid escalating protests
All of Penn’s partner universities in Hong Kong suspended in-person coursework and shifted to an online setting for the rest of the term.
Penn senior and 2019 graduate win prestigious Rhodes Scholarship
Binti Hasbullah and Damianos bring Penn's total number of Rhodes Scholars to 30. This is the third year in a row that Penn students have won the scholarship.
How a seven-week Wharton course brings the study of cryptocurrency to the classroom
The course was spearheaded by the Wharton Dean’s Undergraduate Advisory Board following student demand.
New environmental humanities minor expands how students can learn about the environment
Since 2017 the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities has been planning on creating a minor in environmental humanities, which was recently approved.
Penn's new payroll site is visually pleasing but lacks key timesheet features, students say
Penn students who work on-campus jobs say they can no longer automatically set their hours in Workday and they do not receive notifications for deadlines to submit their hours, features that were previously provided through "eTimeSheets."
New digital humanities class aims to bring more humanities students to computation
English professor Whitney Trettien said the new course will serve as a softer entry point for humanities students to learn how to apply tools and technologies to 'big picture' questions.
NEC amends UA resolution to demand Penn bar Amy Wax from teaching instead of firing her
Some student government leaders said the change made their demands more tangible, acknowledging that Wax's tenured status made her firing unrealistic.
Penn to rename BBB major 'neuroscience' starting this summer
Current BBB students said the name change is a welcome shift that will make their major more easily explainable to the wider public.
Admin considers changing 'Carey Law' back to 'Penn Law' after student backlash
Carey Law Dean of Students Felicia Lin, along with three other administrators, held an hour-and-a-half lunch Q&A session on Monday for any law students concerned about the school's renaming.