US Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, has been named the 2015 Commencement Speaker.
Penn researchers were accused of giving five pigs unapproved head injuries and burning a monkey over the course of last year.
Credit requirements for dual degree programs and compensation for nontransferable credits taken abroad drive students to stay on campus past the traditional four years.
The Penn Engineering school faculty are internationally known for their innovative research that is revolutionizing fields ranging from computer science to biology to animation.
Although males outnumber females in the Vagelos Molecular Life Sciences program by 18 percent, few see need for change.
As an undergraduate, Chair of the Religious Studies department Justin McDaniel, a preeminent scholar of Buddhism, had never studied the subject before.
As an undergraduate, Chair of the Religious Studies department Justin McDaniel, a preeminent scholar of Buddhism, had never studied the subject before.
Penn researchers were accused of giving five pigs unapproved head injuries and burning a monkey over the course of last year.
Credit requirements for dual degree programs and compensation for nontransferable credits taken abroad drive students to stay on campus past the traditional four years.
If you’re looking to go straight from college to the corner office, look no further than Penn’s co-ed business fraternities.
NICK MONCY is a College junior from North Miami, Fla. His email address is nickmon@sas.upenn.edu.
Is emphasizing everything the same as emphasizing nothing? Penn’s choice of a STEAM approach to education — instead of a STEM approach — has raised this question.
John Lapinski is a Penn professor of political science, but when he’s not doing that, he’s also the Director of the Elections Unit at NBC. His connections at NBC News makes PORES, hard-launching this spring, unique.
A class at Penn led a 1997 Wharton grad to develop an alternative to the traditional leading universities.
Two Lincoln-autographed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation, along with other rare artifacts concerning its history, are being displayed in the new exhibit “The Great Emancipator and the Great Central Fair” at Van Pelt Library.
In the same conversation, Classical Studies Professor Ralph Rosen can span topics from Jesus to Eminem, all the while exploring one of his favorite concepts: satire.
In the past 30 years text book prices have increased by over 813 percent as of 2012.
The UA and Penn’s Committee on Open Expression seeks to post student feedback on Penn Course Review.
A Penn Medicine study found that cancer rates are lower in places with higher elevation.
The School of Arts and Sciences Strategic Plan's proposes to include community service, internships or research as part of graduation requirements.
The percentage of graduates accepting jobs in the finance sector has been decreasing over the past five years.
As students, we are not only expected to succeed, but we are in a sense not even allowed to not succeed. Academically, professionally and socially we are surrounded by an overabundance of paths to reach “success.”
With dozens of courses fulfilling each requirement, the College of Arts and Sciences' sectors are not particularly constraining — but administrators still want to ensure that each one does its job.
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