Penn's seven Panhellenic sororities announced their recruits at the annual bid night on Thursday. Crowds gathered in front of Houston Hall to welcome new sisters.
Several groups are combining to revive an effort to educate new fraternity members about showing acceptance to brothers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.
Audience response systems and associated software are increasingly prevalent in the classroom, allowing teachers to pose questions that students answer on individual remote controls.
The University’s transit system, which runs Penn Bus East and West and the Penn Shuttle Service, offers their services to students free of charge. PennCard holders may also take Drexel transportation if they are in an area not covered by Penn transit.
Part of the Freud, Franklin and Beyond seminar series, the discussion dealt with the psychoanalysis of celebrity patients and the subsequent effects on the patients’ privacy.
On Sunday, the Academic Advising Office of the College launched a new instant-message advising service in hopes of making advisers more accessible to students.
On Sunday, the Academic Advising Office of the College launched a new instant-message advising service in hopes of making advisers more accessible to students.
Several groups are combining to revive an effort to educate new fraternity members about showing acceptance to brothers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.
Audience response systems and associated software are increasingly prevalent in the classroom, allowing teachers to pose questions that students answer on individual remote controls.
Letters of recommendation written for women tend to highlight personal characteristics, whereas letters written for men focus more on leadership qualities, according to a recent study.
When 2010 alum George Karandinos moved above a Kensington diner a few blocks from the city’s most dangerous drug trade, he was almost certain he’d be robbed.
The event — which was divided into multiple moderated discussion groups — grew out of a partnership between the Penn Project for Civic Engagement and NewCORE, or New Conversation on Race and Ethnicity, an organization committed to furthering the cause of racial dialogue and cooperation.
The five-term senator will teach a course next fall on the relationship between Congress and the Supreme Court, with a focus on separation of powers and the confirmation process.
Though students and faculty had the day off Monday, around 500 community members participated in service events as part of a larger symposium on social change.
Roughly 50 students attended the presentation, which examined the media's labeling of so-called "criminal madmen" in the wake of the shooting of an Arizona congresswoman.
With a $350,000 starting salary, a Wharton graduate — who now works at a private equity firm — became the highest paid first-year Master in Business Administration graduate in the country last year.
Skulls hopefuls may have to consider other options due to the fraternity’s exclusion from rush events, following the death of Matthew Crozier, who suffered fatal head injuries at the chapter house on New Year’s Eve.
SPEC Film's first event of 2011, in which the group gave away promotional materials for HBO's Funny or Die, was “just to get the mood going,” according to SPEC Film member Angela Feria.
Though the DREAM Act stalled in December, students and administrators are working to give undocumented students equal opportunities at Penn.
The PennApps Hackathon marathon — a 40-hour challenge to create phone programs — will run for the third time from 8:00 p.m. Jan. 14 until noon on Jan. 16.
It is unclear whether the change is in response to the death of a 20-year-old who suffered fatal head injuries after a fall at the fraternity house on Dec. 31.
A blizzard Tuesday night — which blanketed Philadelphia in about seven inches of snow — tampered with many students’ return to campus and caused some class cancellations.
PennSolar brings together a community of solar-energy enthusiasts at Penn and collaborates with outside corporations and other universities on research and projects.
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