Academics
DAB takes undergraduate pulse with new survey
The College’s Dean’s Advisory Board issued a survey last week to gauge students’ satisfaction with their majors. Results of the survey will be issued to individual departments.Helping philanthropists get the biggest bang for their bucks
The School of Social Policy and Practice’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy is helping philanthropists get the biggest bang for their buck.
Fewer jobs for Wharton undergrads
According to a career plans survey report, 80.5 percent of the class of 2009 reported having jobs by the fall after graduation, compared to 86.5 percent the previous year.OCR can cause academics to fall to the wayside
The process of On-Campus Recruiting is extensive, from attending recruitment presentations and networking events to preparing for and going to interviews. As a result, OCR can cause many students to let academics fall by the wayside, even skipping classes for interviews.Water selected as next year's academic theme
What do evolution, the arts and water have in common? Nothing — and that’s precisely the point.
Profs evaluate Obama's first year
Wednesday afternoon, political scientists voiced their thoughts on the President’s leadership over the past 372 days — his strengths, his weaknesses and the issues he has yet to address.Nursing School educates young mothers
They traveled there earlier this year as part of the U.S. Office of Minority Health’s “A Healthy Baby Begins With You” campaign.SEAS tries to sell computer science to high school girls
With females comprising 23 percent of Penn Computer Science students, the University has one of the highest percentages of women enrolled in Computer Science Engineering programs.Africana Studies research journal fills 'shocking' gap in field
When College seniors Eric Augenbraun, Cami King, Joshua Bennett, Jon Howard and Chloe Wayne planned to launch the first Africana Studies undergraduate journal in the United States, their goal was to fill what they found to be a surprising gap in the academic community at large.Fewer MBAs graduate with jobs
Only 83 percent of the MBA students who graduated in the spring reported having been offered a full-time position, a drop from previous years.Painting Penn | Penn mixes Ivy rigor with arts presence
Penn mixes an Ivy League education with a strong arts program, an attraction to many arts-minded students.Fellowship helps train new teachers
For the second year, College sophomores, juniors and seniors are being offered an opportunity to gain hands-on teaching experience in one of three West Philadelphia high schools.UA, SCUE push to get more syllabi online
The Student Committee on Undergraduate Education, the Undergraduate Assembly and the Office of the Provost are working to encourage faculty to post course syllabi online.'Scroogenomics' urges you to think twice before giving gifts
Considering buying those socks for your dad this Christmas? Before making the purchase, Wharton Professor Joel Waldfogel says you should think twice.Students run clinic offering rural care
The Webster County Cancer Education Project, a collaborative program between the Nursing School and various health and service providers, benefits a rural Appalachian community in West Virginia.Class seeks to define 'queer voice' in art
Students in Kenny Goldsmith’s class are working to define “queer voice” in art — which Goldsmith said nobody has been able to do easily.Professor makes clothes light up
The idea of stitching circuitry into clothing may seem like a concept gleaned from the pages of a science-fiction novel set centuries into the future.
Jansen emphasizes benefits of global health careers
During a Career Services program Tuesday night, the international health expert described how his experience learning the Inuktitut dialect while doing research in the Arctic as a student of anthropology ultimately jump-started his career in global health.