A college admissions counselor estimated, however, that 30 to 40 percent of colleges do use social media to judge its applicants.

Ashley Sweeney, a manager at the 30th Street Station outlet said the Cosi outlets on Penn’s and Drexel’s campuses are “high-value stores” which are likely to remain open for a “long, long time" even if ownership of the chain changes.

Penn First, the student organization for first generation, low income (FGLI) students on campus, implemented a range of projects after their inaugural summit in April this year.

The Penn Association for Gender Equity and the Civic House hosted a walking tour through West Philadelphia on Friday, as well as a follow-up discussion.

Penn’s medical school graduates are thriving in tech fields — instead of becoming clinical physicians, some are choosing to found apps or startups instead.

The conference allows students, especially minority students in Wharton, to meet other successful people of color in the business world. 

For an urban campus, Penn is remarkably green

The primatologist took the audience back seventy-eight years ago to when she was a little girl with an insatiable desire to learn about and question the natural world.

The better of the two days will probably be Sunday, which will feature mostly cloudy skies and a high of 73 degrees.

A recent Change.org petition, authored by 1991 College graduate Nathaniel Popkin, has increased pressure on Gutmann and the University to take a stand against Trump. 

Second-year medical student Ari Frosch died on Sept. 22. He had been on a leave of absence at the time. 

College sophomore Shay Moon wrote the grant after spending a month in Sierra Leone this summer, where he noticed a major problem in the region: the lack of a stable food supply.

Wharton Latino’s membership requirements are rather surprising — for what they don’t require.

It is the same chemical Erin Brockovich, later made famous when Julia Roberts portrayed her in a 2000 film, uncovered a large amount of industrial hexavalent chromium contamination in the drinking water of a town in California that had a cancer epidemic.

The red-eared slider, a mid-size turtle native to the southeastern United States and an invasive species in Pennsylvania, has taken over the BioPond.

While most people know what Hebrew is, few would recognize Quechua. But just as many people — about six to eight million — speak each language.  

This year, Penn's Aerial Robotics Club swept the competition at the International Aerial Robotics Competition in Atlanta, Georgia by winning the best technical paper, beating out the likes of MIT, Georgia Tech and international universities.