Penn has many ties with the Chinese university. In March 2010, Penn entered a memorandum of understanding with Peking University, and many of Penn’s schools work closely with the Chinese university.

On Saturday, Penn’s National Society of Black Engineers chapter “walked for education” in an effort to increase the number of black engineers who graduate from four-year institutions.

Some professors say that Penn’s four upcoming dean appointments could be a defining part of President Gutmann’s legacy.

Klein taught at Penn from 1958 to 1991 and was awarded a Nobel Prize in economics in 1980 for his work on econometric models.

Some attribute this change in job shifts to cuts in research funding and monetary benefits of the private sector.

On Friday evening, Columbia University professor Farah Jasmine Griffin celebrated the one-year anniversary of Penn’s Department of Africana Studies as the keynote speaker at the conference “Future of the Field.”

Y-Prize, a Wharton-Engineering competition, is now accepting applications from around the world due to its partnership with Marblar, an online crowdsourcing platform.

The research can be applied to create emergency shelters that fold flat.

Harper and his team interviewed black and Latino male students and connected with the students on a personal level.

Novack, a 1986 Engineering graduate, is currently teaching “Film Sound: History, Aesthetics and Subversion,” one of the classes offered for this year’s theme, the Year of Sound.

Singh Center will provide community resources for both the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the School of Arts and Sciences and foster interdisciplinary research.

Ankur Kumar’s sudden resignation follows a Sept. 27 article in The Wall Street Journal, titled “What’s Wrong With Wharton?”

Applications to the MBA program have fallen 6 percent just in the past year.

New building for Engineering and College researchers combines state-of-the-art technology, environmentally conscious architecture and fine art.

Penn Engineering students who won second place at the senior design competition last semester recently received a runner-up commendation in an NIH competition.

“Flipped” lectures are designed to be more engaging and interactive.

The fifteen foot long, 6 foot tall tunnel in the basement of the Towne building can reach speeds of up to 120 miles per hour.