Harvard professor Sendhil Mullainathan is questioning whether students going into finance will make the best use of their talent.  In 2014, one in five Harvard students took a job in the financial sector and this number was bigger for economics majors--one in two students.  Mullainathan explains that "every profession produces both private return--the fruits of labor that a person enjoys--and social returns, those that society enjoys." While finance is usually an industry in which returns are private, he argues, people in the industry can use it for the solve social problems with financial roots, such as saving money for college to insure unemployment risk and going into debt from having to take out loans to support meager paychecks.  "So how should I feel about my students going into finance?

Effective July 1st, she will become the Presidential Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology at the Perelman School of Medicine.

As hundreds of prospective Penn students flood campus for Quaker Days, current students are gearing up for the wildest weekend of the year.

Is it better to get into Penn and exhaust every option to afford it, or is it better to simply get rejected because of your inability to pay? This is a serious question that many international students ask themselves when applying to Penn.

Every April, the country’s best club tennis teams flock to the USTA Tennis On Campus National Championship. Since the first National Championship in 2000, Penn has qualified for the big dance every year.

Each year, the start of spring heralds the most glorious time of the year—great weather, fun times as school winds down and, of course, baseball season. While the Philadelphia Phillies may have 154 games remaining in their regular season, Penn baseball is nearing the peak of Ivy League play with only two series remaining against Princeton and Columbia, respectively.

The stakes are rising for Penn women’s lacrosse. Winners of eight consecutive Ivy League regular season titles, the resilient Quakers will face Princeton on Wednesday in a battle of Ivy League unbeatens, one that will likely determine the host of next month's Ivy League Tournament.

As Penn men's lacrosse prepares for a do-or-die matchup with Dartmouth, its team captain has earned a place in a race for some prestigious individual recognition. The Senior CLASS (Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School) Award, given annually, recognizes those who best live up to both parts of student-athlete title. Matt McMahon, a key cog in the Red and Blue defense since 2012, was named as one of 10 finalists for the award last week.

AXO nationals compared off-campus organizations to knock-off Tory Burch handbags.

If you are tired of flipping back and forth between Penn Course Review and Penn InTouch, three Penn students might have a solution.

The club’s mission is to start and increase dialogue between students, particularly those who would never interact under ordinary circumstances

Along the way, the marchers chanted phrases like “Pay your share, it’s just fair, hey Gutmann, won’t you meet us there?”

Specific and accurate nutritional information on dining hall food is not readily available.

On Tuesday, the Social Policy and Practice School, Annenberg, College, Nursing, Graduate School of Education and Law School deans gathered to discuss social issues relevant on campus and in Philadelphia. 

Fifty-nine of the suspects who were shot by Philadelphia Police were unarmed, according to the report.

SAM SHERMAN is a College junior from Marblehead, Mass. His email is samsherman6@gmail.com.

What those who decry —(with religious zeal, I might add —) Indiana’s RFRA seem to ignore is that these issues involve a balancing of rights.