The new home of Penn's political science and economics departments is on track to be completed by January 2018, and as of now is almost halfway done being designed.

While the concept of innovation might evoke images of computers, start-ups and engineers, it increasingly impacts faculty in all disciplines at Penn.

For me, that’s the most troubling part of flipped classrooms — the idea that, with all the great faculty Penn has, they don’t spend time teaching. A freshman in an active learning Math 103 course told me that she is required to watch online lectures. Once she is actually in class, her professor puts her into groups and gives them worksheets.

Events this week include an open house, panels featuring Penn professors who teach online courses and discussions about the new education platform. The panels will be available online as webinars and one of them will take place in the Active Learning Classroom in the ARCH building.

While professor Kenneth Goldsmith's new course "Wasting Time on the Internet" will use digital distraction to inspire students’ creative writing.

“Writing Out Loud” – an Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) course – is prompting Penn students to write original theatre pieces based on relationships they form with West Philadelphia residents.

Pursuing big-name professors is a massive effort with an uncertain payoff.

At their Nov. 2 meeting, the Undergraduate Assembly passed a resolution that urges the administration not to change the credit value of a course after the first day of classes. They also discussed making syllabi for all classes available on Penn InTouch.

Among Geoffrey Garrett's top priorities for his deanship is his desire to communicate Wharton’s value in fields beyond finance. 

While more and more Penn students enroll in entry-level computer science classes, the CIS department is struggling to find the resources to keep up.Penn has seen a

The fall season means many devoted hours reviewing applications for the Office of Admissions at the Perelman School of Medicine, which last year received 5,742 applications and interviewed 898 candidates.

As Wharton is poised to soon begin a review of it’s undergraduate curriculum, student leaders have taken the time to share their thoughts on the strengths and of weaknesses of the existing curriculum.

On Friday the University will be hosting an event celebrating the ceremonial groundbreaking of the Pennovation Center, Penn’s innovation center on South Bank Campus.

The Teachers Institute of Philadelphia brings together Penn faculty and public school teachers from West and Southwest Philadelphia to learn from each other and from Penn professors. 

Greg Scarlatoiu, executive director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, spoke on Tuesday at “The North Korean Conundrum,” hosted via the Korean Current Affairs Program.

With the closure of the Towne library on May 20, Engineering students have been struggling to find study space within the Engineering quad.

An Annenberg Public Policy Center study released Monday morning, showed parents are becoming less sensitive to sex and violence in movies the more often they watch films of that nature.