From the Archives: Black History at Penn
In February, the United States observes Black History Month in celebration of the world's African diaspora. These are several selected moments in the history of the black community at Penn.
In February, the United States observes Black History Month in celebration of the world's African diaspora. These are several selected moments in the history of the black community at Penn.
And while Penn still took care of the Big Green on Saturday, Friday night was a clear display of a new hierarchy in the Ivy League: Harvard ... and everyone else.
Every Monday, the multipurpose room of W.E.B Du Bois College House takes on a purpose all its own.
After a deflating loss to the last-place team in the conference the night after claiming the top spot, most teams would struggle to rebound. But this Penn team is not most teams.
And while Penn still took care of the Big Green on Saturday, Friday night was a clear display of a new hierarchy in the Ivy League: Harvard ... and everyone else.
Every Monday, the multipurpose room of W.E.B Du Bois College House takes on a purpose all its own.
Hospitals and doctors offices alike are made more accountable for improving patient outcomes given the new healthcare laws, and the Individualized Management for Patient Center Targets aims to fulfill this duty.
The idea of leaving the “ivory tower” of Penn often echoes throughout campus. It seems, however, not to have resonated with far too many students, who, like me as a freshman, rarely venture past 41st Street.
A three-time All-American with a Wikipedia page full of athletic achievements, Reynolds is the premiere upperclassman on a youth-heavy Penn program.
With Yale faltering at Columbia, the Crimson gained sole possession of first place in the Ivy League with a weekend sweep of Penn and Princeton.
A new research fellowship offered by the Center for the Advanced Study of India will provide an alternative to the Fulbright Grant to pursue a post-baccalaureate project abroad.
The things that fascinate me about the human condition, its most essential aspects, are so obvious and universal that you don’t need a class to discover them; you observe them just by living and seeing how others live.
With a score of 190.15, the Quakers finished behind host Brown and Yale, but managed to edge out Cornell. After struggling to do so all season, the Red and Blue managed to top 190 for the third straight meet.
Penn graduate students are going to Pottruck for more than the smoothies this semester.
In the program’s first ever match against the Redbirds (4-3), the injury-riddled Quakers (1-5) fought hard across the board, but ultimately the team was not able to win the close matchups it needed, falling 5-2 on Sunday.
We need to acknowledge that not only are these failures OK, but that they are inescapable for anyone trying to achieve on the daily basis what most students at Penn are.
The average person will never hear John Legend speak at graduation. Seventeen Penn students will have heard him twice.
Former Chief Executive Officer Joe Meyer of New York-based company HopStop visited campus on Friday to speak with current students about entrepreneurship.
Speakers at the Penn Law Sports and Entertainment Law Society’s inaugural symposium on Friday, entitled "A Blurred Line," will discuss the gray area surrounding athletes’ transitions from amateur to professional sports.
A lot of the humanities have to do with how important it is to understand and love other people, and while that’s something so obvious that Barney the Dinosaur knows it, that doesn’t make it easy.