For athletes, concussions impact class
For weeks after his last head injury, ex-Penn football player Colin Donnelly struggled to keep up in school — a challenging hurdle for a Wharton student.
For weeks after his last head injury, ex-Penn football player Colin Donnelly struggled to keep up in school — a challenging hurdle for a Wharton student.
Rapper Wiz Khalifa will take the stage at the Rotunda next month. Khalifa broke the Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 in 2008 with techno-influenced single “Say Yeah.” He has since put out a 2009 album Deal or No Deal and a heavily downloaded mixtape Kush and Orange Juice.
“My dad would have loved the movie,” Zvi Bielski said of his late father Zus Bielski, who is played by Liev Schreiber in the 2008 film Defiance. Bielski was invited to campus by Chabad leader Rabbi Levi Haskelevich, to address students Tuesday evening.
Huwaida Arraf and Adam Shapiro addressed a crowd of about a hundred people at Penn, discussing the International Solidarity Movement— a Palestinian rights organization they co-founded — and the flotilla mission to Gaza this May that generated international attention and outrage.
Rapper Wiz Khalifa will take the stage at the Rotunda next month. Khalifa broke the Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 in 2008 with techno-influenced single “Say Yeah.” He has since put out a 2009 album Deal or No Deal and a heavily downloaded mixtape Kush and Orange Juice.
“My dad would have loved the movie,” Zvi Bielski said of his late father Zus Bielski, who is played by Liev Schreiber in the 2008 film Defiance. Bielski was invited to campus by Chabad leader Rabbi Levi Haskelevich, to address students Tuesday evening.
Students and local politicians gathered on a wet College Green Wednesday for the Get Out the LGBTQA Vote Rally, encouraging people to vote for allies of the LGBT community.
Penn received a grade of A - on the newly released College Sustainability Report Card. More than 500 colleges throughout North America were surveyed for the report.
The response to the slew of bullying-linked suicides has been a touching nationwide movement to send messages to teenagers that “it gets better.” Pity, then, that it simply isn’t true.
Filmmaker Jean Marie Offenbacher visited Penn's campus today to showcase Tea on the Axis of Evil, her 2009 documentary on Syrian culture, as part of an ongoing college tour.
One reason why poverty persists and so many Americans have trouble improving their economic situations is because people are financially illiterate. We support a new Penn initiative that aims to tackle the issue of financial literacy.
Guitarist Nick Zinner, writer and musician Zachary Lipez and designer Stacy Wakefield came to the Penn Bookstore to promote their book entitled Please Take Me Off the Guest List. The book features Zinner's photography, Lipez's writing and Wakefield's design.
Even though there’s no real proof that paranormal phenomena exist, there’s a good scientific reason why we can’t shake these feelings. A leading theory is that irrational fears are scientific in nature — simply a product of evolution.
Just two months into her collegiate tennis career, Connie Hsu has already established herself as a championship contender.
With the realization that only two races remain before their collegiate cross-country careers conclude, Penn’s three seniors are determined to make their final miles their swiftest yet.
ZTA will recruit new members in February, one week after existing sororities complete formal recruitment. Both student leaders and ZTA officials are confident it will be a success.
Wharton alumnus Scott Davenport believes everyone should be free to marry. As COO of Freedom to Marry — a national campaign for marriage equality, his work reflects his passion.
Harvard University saw a 91-percent decrease in its burglary rate from 2008 to 2009 due to a change in crime disclosure law. According to a report by Penn's Division of Public Safety, however, Penn did not see a similar dramatic drop in 2009 rates.
Avis Hinkson, who earned a Doctor of Education Degree at Penn’s Graduate School of Education in 2004, was appointed dean of Barnard College on Tuesday.
In preparation for Stephen Colbert's “Keep Fear Alive” march, SEAS professor Daniel Lee filmed a segment today in which Colbert confronts his greatest fears — which include robots.