Academics
There’s always something new going on at Penn’s four undergraduate schools and 12 graduate schools. Look here for information on upcoming academic initiatives, new classes and research conducted by professors and students.
Awards make waves in Penn Engineering
The School of Engineering and Applied Science is coming off an eventful summer, during which faculty from various fields and levels of seniority received over $60 million in grants.Students frustrated with availability of online syllabi
Since courses are only listed on Blackboard after students enroll in a class, students are finding it difficult to use syllabi to inform their registration.
Penn Museum aims for larger crowds
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has created numerous initiatives for the upcoming school year in hopes of appealing to the public beyond its educational role.New book questions Management 100 TA system
Wharton students defend the Management 100 TA system, which has recently come under attack in a new book about Higher Education.
GSE prof headed to D.C. to lecture on black colleges
Graduate School of Education professor Marybeth Gasman will speak Sept. 13 at the White House Initiative on HBCUs’ National Conference in Washington, D.C.Penn Law and Hong Kong University create exchange program
Penn’s Law School and the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong established a new dual-degree exchange student program — a move which administrators call a testament to Penn’s commitment to internationalism.Wharton professors predict box office potential
Hoping to improve the relationship between these two elements, Wharton professors Jehoshua Eliashberg and Z. John Zhang, along with current New York University professor Sam Hui, have devised a method in which they can, by analyzing a film’s script, predict its box office potential.Textbooks made more accessible
With an expanding array of outlets for purchasing textbooks, students will encounter more reasonably priced options when buying course materials this semester.
Fulbrights awarded to 13 Penn students
Though the application process is said to be grueling, the University “does pretty well with encouraging kids to apply for Fulbrights and making their applications good enough to be accepted,” Director of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships Harriet Joseph said.SEAS and SAS Double Majors allowed
A new measure that will allow College of Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences students to pursue second majors outside of their schools has been passed by undergraduate education committees and awaits a final faculty vote in the fall.Penn Med students selected for professional ethics fellowship
30 medical and law students nationwide will travel to Europe to study ethics through the lens of the Holocaust.Health communication will go abroad to China
A new program, led by Penn professors, will help a Beijing school understand why some fliers compel students to wash their hands, while others don’t quite persuade students to grab the nearest bottle of hand sanitizer.Summer Enrollment Up
Enrollment in 12-week summer classes is up drastically from last year.
Fineman to teach mini-course
Newsweek’s Senior Washington Correspondent, columnist, and NBC and MSNBC analyst Howard Fineman will teach a 3-session mini course at the Kelly Writers House this fall.Penn prof. receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Penn Psychology Professor Martin Seligman’s contributions to the field of psychology were recognized when he received the Philadelphia Behavior Therapy Association’s second Lifetime Achievement Award on May 26.de Rothschilds donate $1 million to Penn's World Scholars Program
Sir Evelyn and Lynn Forester de Rothschild gave Penn’s World Scholars Program a $1 million gift with the intention of supporting a Penn World Scholar from a British Commonwealth country.
Redefining roles, more men choose nursing
Despite pervasive stigmas casting nursing as a female field, Penn’s small number of male nurses has begun to grow.