How it's done Today a parking lot; tomorrow a nanotechnology research building that could cost upwards of $80 million. That, in a nutshell, is the present and future of a space near 33rd and Walnut streets. The lot, which sits next to the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, is slated to hold the new facility as part of Penn's eastward expansion.
Shunning today's technology will cost you.
Before Cornell clinched its third straight Ivy League championship, it battled through a tough challenge from Penn. Following the 3-1 loss to the Big Red, the Quakers won their second match of the New York road trip on Saturday by defeating last-place Columbia, 3-0.
When Wharton junior Samir Sheth isn't in Finance meetings, he's performing before thousands of passionate fans in India.
Big Ten basketball fans beware - Randy Wittman is back. No, not the Randy Wittman who won a national championship with Indiana in 1981 and was the Big Ten Player of the Year two years later - his son, Randy Scott Wittman, a freshman guard at Cornell.
The stucco wall on the west side of the Kappa Sigma fraternity house is, to be blunt, ugly.
The stucco wall on the west side of the Kappa Sigma fraternity house is, to be blunt, ugly.
Shunning today's technology will cost you.
Before Cornell clinched its third straight Ivy League championship, it battled through a tough challenge from Penn. Following the 3-1 loss to the Big Red, the Quakers won their second match of the New York road trip on Saturday by defeating last-place Columbia, 3-0.
Many departmental Web sites can't follow simple rules of consistency or haven't been updated in years.
Students turned out to vote in very large numbers this past election.
HUP first in Phila. to adopt imaging system The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania has become the city's first hospital to use a new type of imaging technology that can provide detailed, 3-D images of patients' hearts. Because the computing tomography technology is faster, it can take a more accurate picture of the heart - which is constantly in motion.
After alleging that he was beaten and branded during fraternity hazing activities last fall, College senior E. Martyn Griffen will face the people he is accusing in court a week from today. Griffen said two brothers of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, College senior Kelechi Okereke and Education graduate student Lionel Anderson-Perez, lacerated him with a rubber band and severely beat his legs during pledging.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The Quakers opened their season in a three-game tournament at Syracuse, N.Y. this weekend, and while a win over Big East powerhouse Syracuse might have been a bit much to ask for, the Quakers were undoubtably hoping for a bit better than 1-2.
The vast majority of American adults want kids to learn about safe-sex practices - and abstinence, according to a recent report from Penn's Annenberg National Health Communication Survey. In an article in the November issue of the journal Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, researchers outlined survey results from over 1,000 people.
A slice of the Ivy League's Latino community came together in Houston Hall over the weekend. Their purpose: to connect with other successful Latinos, both students and professionals. Friday though Sunday, Penn hosted the second annual Latino Ivy League Conference.
Engineering freshman Matt Berger won a treasure hunt last week, but rather than receiving a T-shirt or candy, he landed a $1,000 check. Berger, along with about 120 other students, participated in the Weiss Tech House's newest cash-giveaway competition - its week-long $1,000 Innovative Treasure Hunt.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. As Penn closed out the weekend's tournament against St. Francis, the meager smattering of fans in attendance attested to the fact that this was certainly not the day's feature game. Going on results alone, this was a matchup between the two worst teams in the tournament, the two that had lost a pair of opening games and were playing for third.
As another Ivy League scandal comes to a close, Penn President Amy Gutmann is going to be just fine, experts say.
The men and women's swimming teams both crushed Rider and Lehigh in Lawrenceville, N.J., on Saturday, breaking four pool records in the process. "You are not expecting to get pool records, especially at Rider, which doesn't have a very good pool," coach Mike Schnur said.
All eyes were on Harvard's Clifton Dawson on Saturday, but it was the Penn senior class that ultimately stole the show on Senior Day. Running back Joe Sandberg notched yet another impressive performance, scoring Penn's two touchdowns with a pair of nearly identical plays in the first quarter.
Volunteerism is reaching record highs in many parts of the country; students should think about giving their time.
Reports of aggravated assault on and around campus are way up from last year, and safety officials blame student-to-student violence.
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