Koller, one of the two co-founders of Coursera, took some time at this weekend’s inaugural Coursera Partners’ Conference to sit down and speak with The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Graduate School of Education Dean Andy Porter will retire at the end of his current contract in June 2014, the University announced Thursday.

A full-time poet and part-time lecturer at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, Kenneth Goldsmith is also a self-professed “institutional critic.” So when he was named the first “poet laureate” of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in January, Goldsmith was naturally “suspicious.”

Living Independently for Elders, a one-of-a-kind program of the School of Nursing, has recently added new zip codes in Delaware County in addition to those it already serves in West and Southwest Philadelphia.

Only three percent of business school professors in the United States are minorities.

Some classes never get old. While many students spend hours thinking through their individualized schedules every semester during advanced registration, certain classes have been identified within particular schools and departments as more sought after than others.

There’s more than just oinks and moos at Penn School of Veterinary Medicine’s New Bolton Center.

The “Lod Mosaic” at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has garnered a lot of praise, but has also drawn criticism from Penn faculty.

This Saturday, students, academics and professionals met in Huntsman Hall to discuss the ethical repercussions of the microfinancial industry.

The Wharton School was ranked number five in Bloomberg Businessweek’s annual ranking of undergraduate business schools this year, which was released March 20. This is a drop from last year, when it was ranked fourth.

This year, 12.1 percent of total applicants were admitted to the Class of 2017, a slight decrease from last year’s 12.6 percent and marks a record low for Penn, according to the Office of Admissions.

Early Novels Database is a bibliographic database that consists of American and British fiction novels from the years 1660-1830, and it is revolutionizing humanities research.

At the fourth annual Wharton Biztalks, faculty members gave presentations on their current research interests.

You can’t burst this professor’s bubble. Assistant professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Daeyeon Lee recently won the 3M Nontenured Faculty Award for creating particles that are hollow and lightweight, like bubbles, but are also surprisingly sturdy.

Research a Penn professor has been doing on the brain for the past 35 years is now being considered for a television show.

Admissions consulting firms have been around for a while now, and with a constant flow of demand from both undergraduate and graduate students seeking advice on how to perfect their applications to various programs, the industry is flourishing.

Engineering senior Ayaka Nonaka has built two iPhone apps — one for the weather and one to-do list — for fun in the past month. As a computer science major, a teacher for the half-credit course Computer Science 195 and one of the organizers of PennApps, Nonaka has had extensive experience in programming but wanted to use these projects as “an exercise in programming, design and product development.”