The Wistar Institute announced its partnership with Inovio Pharmaceuticals on Jan. 23 to accelerate vaccine development for the recent coronavirus outbreak.
Penn senior wins Churchill Scholarship to study at Cambridge University
The scholarship grants one year of graduate study at University of Cambridge in England and is awarded annually to only fifteen students in the U.S. for “outstanding academic achievement” in science, mathematics, and engineering.
Penn Women's Center strives for inclusivity one year into new director's role
Director of the Penn Women’s Center Sherisse Laud-Hammond said that the number of events, meetings, classes, and tours held at PWC has increased from 292 to 382 in the past year.
Penn Leads the Vote amps up efforts to increase student turnout for Pa. primaries
This semester, Penn Leads the Vote will put most of its efforts into hosting voter registration drives and educational events for the presidential primaries on April 28. The group is optimistic about this year's student voter turnout, because on-campus voting has increased 400% since 2014.
Penn senior wins Churchill Scholarship to study at Cambridge University
The scholarship grants one year of graduate study at University of Cambridge in England and is awarded annually to only fifteen students in the U.S. for “outstanding academic achievement” in science, mathematics, and engineering.
Penn Women's Center strives for inclusivity one year into new director's role
Director of the Penn Women’s Center Sherisse Laud-Hammond said that the number of events, meetings, classes, and tours held at PWC has increased from 292 to 382 in the past year.
Penn will not invest in coal and tar sands, but FFP says there is still work to do
The announcement comes over a year after the University Council steering committee rejected Fossil Free Penn’s proposal to divest from coal and tar sands.
New Penn Mobile feature will calculate the cost of each swipe for all meal plans
The update will also provide students with a predicted date of when they will run out of meal swipes and dining dollars, Engineering sophomore and Penn Mobile team member Justin Lieb said.
Penn Medicine study finds high satisfaction rate for ICU end-of-life care
The new study contradicts conventional wisdom that end-of-life care in the ICU is a poor experience for dying patients than care in other departments, according to Penn Medicine News.
PennApps replaces annual spring hackathon with smaller workshop
Director of PennApps and College junior Claudia Haddad said the group decided to try something new this semester to bring the PennApps experience to a younger, more entry-level audience.
Panhellenic recruitment registration fell approx. 8% this semester
This year, sororities saw an approximately 8.3% decrease in registered students, with only approximately 550 registered for rush, according to the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life.
Penn’s new Title IX officer will lead effort to centralize sexual misconduct reports
Before coming to Penn, Rovinsky-Mayer worked in the Office of Equality and Diversity at Drexel University as the Title IX Coordinator for eleven years.
Penn bars students from studying in China this semester following coronavirus outbreak
Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé also said other students studying in Southeast Asia have chosen to return to Penn.
Penn added over 50 lactation spaces across campus in the last decade
Penn Women's Center Director Sherisse Laud-Hammond said that the number of free breast pump attachment kits distributed by Penn Women’s Center through their Pump-Kit Giveaway Program has also nearly tripled in the past three years.
UA representative plans to lobby Du Bois to prioritize Black students in housing selection
The house was founded by Cathy Barlow as a residency program for Black students at Penn. Since its 1972 founding, Du Bois has never given housing priority to Black students.
New School of Design degree program focuses on using robotics in architecture
Penn's Stuart Weitzman School of Design will offer a new degree program this fall that combines robotics and architectural design. The new program is known as Master of Science in Design: Robotics and Autonomous Systems (MSD-RAS), and it is one of the few architectural programs in the nation to use robots and artificial intelligence in design.
In this week’s crime log: Indecent assault at Cira Center Parking Garage, thefts from Wawa
This week's crime log includes an indecent assault at Cira Center Parking Garage and thefts from two Wawa stores near campus.
Homan spoke for an hour to an audience of more than 40 attendees, while many protested in Houston Market and surrounding stairwells, blocked from the door by Penn security officials.
'Weapons of Math Destruction': NYT best-seller Cathy O'Neil talks data privacy breaches
O'Neil wrote The New York Times bestselling book, "Weapons of Math Destruction," which was assigned to all incoming members of the Class of 2023 last summer as part of the Penn Reading Project.
Penn Dining's Lunar New Year celebration features Penn alum and Chinese restaurant manager
The Lunar New Year celebration is part of The Penn Cooks program, an initiative started in September 2019 under Penn Dining to celebrate the diverse student body of Penn and feature cuisines and chefs from different cultural backgrounds.



















