Here's how to navigate Philadelphia this weekend
SEPTA released their proposed plans for service coverage in anticipation of two major events occurring in the city this week: the NFL Draft and the Penn Relays.
SEPTA released their proposed plans for service coverage in anticipation of two major events occurring in the city this week: the NFL Draft and the Penn Relays.
Sandberg, who is the chief operating officer of Facebook spoke with Grant on Wednesday evening about their new book, "Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy" at a talk hosted by the Authors@Wharton speaker series.
New Life Evangelistic Center, a shelter that housed around 300 people, was closed down two weeks ago. According to a Fox News report, the shelter was extremely overcrowded. Its original permit stated that the shelter had a maximum occupancy of 35 people.
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Sandberg, who is the chief operating officer of Facebook spoke with Grant on Wednesday evening about their new book, "Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy" at a talk hosted by the Authors@Wharton speaker series.
New Life Evangelistic Center, a shelter that housed around 300 people, was closed down two weeks ago. According to a Fox News report, the shelter was extremely overcrowded. Its original permit stated that the shelter had a maximum occupancy of 35 people.
According to a report from Open The Books, a database of government spending, 29.6 percent of the $17.8 million the Ivies spent on lobbying from 2010-2014 could be traced back to Penn.
One protester, who did not want to be named for fear of retaliation from the white supremacy groups, said she and others who participated were angered by what they saw as Penn's nonchalant attitude towards the neo-Nazi flyers put up around campus earlier this week.
Pritchett, a scholar of urban policy, education and race relations, is currently the Presidential Professor of Law and Education at Penn Law.
Administrators have not made it clear how the University hopes to incentivize registration for off-campus groups, while students remain skeptical that some of the task force recommendations can truly change campus culture.
2016 Wharton graduate Anastasia Lee works in the technology division at Morgan Stanley — but to her surprise, despite her position as an investment banker, much of her time isn’t spent working on finance at all.
A sizable group of students — approximately 11 percent of 2016 graduates who did not graduate Penn with a full-time offer or a spot at a graduate school — choose to break the mold and do something different with their first year after graduation.
Career Services data over the past six years consistently lists Penn as one of the top employers for recent Penn graduates: for every year since 2010, 16 to 43 students have been employed full-time by the University. This is not counting the many other students who juggle part-time work at Penn with other jobs.
“There is a whole life experience that predisposes children to be more successful, and get into these more successful schools, and get drawn into careers that feel like their childhood and feel like the elite trajectory that they have been on throughout their childhood," said Alexandra Michel, a Graduate School of Education professor who used to work at Goldman Sachs.
The decreased funding for research will force academics to be more strategic about their research proposal topics in the future, Alain Plante, an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science said.
“The Ethnic Studies field in History and Literature emphasizes histories of racial formations within and beyond the United States,” the department’s website states. Students entering this field will be required to take eight courses concentrating on ethnic studies.
A witty music video produced by Penn Law Revue, a new Penn Law School student group, has reached the finals in an online competition hosted by Above the Law.
The duo started speaking to administrators about their ideas following the presidential election, which Gonsalves said “really hit home.”
“It was a 20-minute walk to and from DRL,” College freshman Jackie Wexler said. “It’d make planning my schedule very difficult, it’d make going home when I have an hour between classes difficult, and the Radian seemed a bit more convenient."
The Philadelphia Office of Property Assessment announced that it is reevaluating the city’s “commercial, industrial, and institutional properties,” and Penn has come under scrutiny.