Academics

Penn InTouch debuts changes

Two years of an extreme makeover finally paid off.

Harvard to endow chair in LGBT studies

Harvard University announced it will create the first endowed professorship for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies in the United States.

SAS to offer a new course of graduate study

This fall, Penn’s Organizational Dynamics department in the School of Arts and Sciences plans to introduce a new Organizational Consulting and Executive Coaching concentration to its Master of Science degree in Organizational Dynamics.

Congress questions online learning

Debates over the status of online education are leading both congressmen and educators to reassess the legitimacy of learning behind-the-screens.

U. selects new PIK professor

The offices of the President and the Provost announced earlier this week that Karen Glanz has been appointed as the ninth Penn Integrates Knowledge professor, the first in the School of Nursing.

Cramped class requirements limit nurses and engineers from study abroad

Of the 450 students currently enrolled in study abroad programs, only 41 of those students are engineers, and just four are nurses.