Academics
Penn responds to urgent maintenance issues in DRL, but long-term solutions remain unclear
On Feb. 27, four students sent a petition to Penn administrators calling for solutions to the frequent ceiling leakages and pest infestations in the building.
Penn doctors honored as 'Patient Care Heroes' for treating rare case of leprosy disease
Leprosy is an infectious disease that starts out as bacterial infection and affects the skin and the nerves. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 150 to 250 cases are reported in the United States each year.
Penn receives $6 million gift for a program focusing on civil discourse
The program’s courses will be interdisciplinary and aim to teach students to become engaged citizens.
Grad students petition Penn to fix DRL's recurring water leaks and poor working conditions
The letter, which was sent to Vice Dean for Finance and Administration Matthew Lane Wednesday, petitions Penn to resolve the persistent maintenance issues that students and faculty working in DRL have faced for years.
LinkedIn and Morgan Stanley leaders stress importance of data analytics at Wharton panel
Business and education leaders stressed the importance of expanding education so more people can learn to use data analytics and become involved in the future economy.
Penn will not reclassify economics as a STEM major, despite past considerations
Students are currently able to major in mathematical economics, which has a significantly heavier mathematics course load and is four course units more than the traditional major.
Financial services scraps plan to add work-study jobs and launch a consolidated database
While SRFS scrapped their efforts to improve accessibility to work-study jobs, students continue to criticize the process of finding these positions.
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.