An online education startup from Stanford, Coursera offers free online classes taught by top university professors across the nation. A Coursera course grants students instant access to several hours of lecture videos and quizzes put together by the course professor.
Fall 2013 Undergraduate Assembly Elections
New alcohol registration to begin on Oct. 19
Beginning Oct. 19, the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives will begin accepting applications from student groups to register on-campus events under the pilot’s new guidelines.
Dartmouth slips by Penn field hockey, 2-0
Saturday afternoon, the Penn field hockey team fell at Dartmouth, 2-0, snapping its two-game winning streak.
A new home for ASL in the classroom
The six-course American Sign Language minor was approved by a unanimous vote by the School of Arts and Sciences faculty last April, becoming the first program of its kind in the Ivy League.
New alcohol registration to begin on Oct. 19
Beginning Oct. 19, the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives will begin accepting applications from student groups to register on-campus events under the pilot’s new guidelines.
Dartmouth slips by Penn field hockey, 2-0
Saturday afternoon, the Penn field hockey team fell at Dartmouth, 2-0, snapping its two-game winning streak.
Penn women's soccer extends Ivy win streak
Friday, the women’s soccer team beat Cornell, 2-1, in Ithaca, N.Y. Penn extended its Ivy winning streak to 7-0-1 with the win, the longest Ancient Eight streak in program history. The Quakers resumed action Sunday with a home-game tune-up against NJIT, winning, 4-0.
The term “digital humanities” refers to an array of activities, such as the use of social media platforms as research environments and data mining within literary works, according to English professor James English, who is the founding director of DHF.
Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams competed at Lehigh’s Paul Short Invitational on Friday. Out of 33 teams, the men finished in first, while the women finished 16th out of 40 schools.
Penn volleyball starts strong, splits Ivy road trip
The Quakers split their first Ivy weekend away from their home court, easily overcoming Dartmouth in three sets but falling to Harvard in a five-set battle.
BRIEF | Penn sprint football pulls out first win of year in final seconds
Pushed to victory by a 73-yard touchdown catch by senior Whit Shaw with only nine seconds left in the game, the Red and Blue defeated Franklin Pierce, 24-20.
Freshman Class Board, UA results announced after two-day delay
The results were originally delayed as a result of alleged violations. The result for Wharton class chair was not announced due to an unprecedented tie.
Penn men's soccer comes up short in Ithaca
For the second straight year, the Quakers began Ivy League play with a heartbreaking one-goal loss to Cornell, with this iteration coming by a final of 3-2 in Ithaca, N.Y.
Groups will face a budget cut of 5 percent for every $1,000 of debt they have accumulated, with the savings applied toward paying off the groups’ debt.
The 2012 Red and Blue is a power football team that operates best with a run-first mentality. The question still remains as to who will emerge as the go-to-guy in Bagnoli’s running back rotation.
Penn, UA endorse alcohol pilot program
Among other changes, the pilot will allow mixed drinks to be served at certain registered parties. The program also aims to create more spaces on campus for non-Greek student groups to host events with alcohol.
Bethenny Frankel teaches students how to build their brand
“You have to do everything to the best of your ability,” Frankel said. “If you are delivering coffee on a movie set, then you deliver the best coffee that you possibly can.”
Symposium on Violence Against Women brings research, stories to campus
Jimmie Briggs had been a combat journalist for over a decade, but all it took was one woman in a Congo hospital to end his career.
Poets speak out for change at the Kelly Writers House
The 100 Thousand Poets for Change organization seeks to bring together poets, songwriters, artists and musicians for one day to call for social and political change.
Penn holds Psychedemia conference
Psychedemia, a new Penn conference, brought together an interdisciplinary panel of university scholars to discuss the new state of scientific knowledge about psychedelic drugs and their place in modern culture.













