Penn joins edX online learning platform
Penn students can now learn about everything from property law to limb anatomy to global business with nothing but a thirst for knowledge and an internet connection.
Penn students can now learn about everything from property law to limb anatomy to global business with nothing but a thirst for knowledge and an internet connection.
Last week, the Annenberg Debate Reform Working Group from Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) released a 48-page report recommending modifications in the format of presidential debates
Harrisburg Mandolin Ensemble kicked off the Penn Museum’s sixth annual Summer Nights Concert Series.
Arianna Alexander was accepted to 26 colleges, including six Ivy League schools, and received over $3 million in scholarship offers.
Last week, the Annenberg Debate Reform Working Group from Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) released a 48-page report recommending modifications in the format of presidential debates
Harrisburg Mandolin Ensemble kicked off the Penn Museum’s sixth annual Summer Nights Concert Series.
1997 Wharton and College graduate Elon Musk, who has been dubbed by Robert Downey Jr. as the real-life Iron Man, may have outdone even Iron Man with his latest creation.
1996 College graduate Alan Sepinwall definitely watches more TV than you. As a TV critic for HitFix.com, he watches dozens of shows each week “at a minimum.” This former 34th Street managing editor spoke with the Daily Pennsylvanian on Tuesday about that shocking Game of Thrones season finale, the growth of weekly TV recaps and shows he really doesn’t like. Weekly episode recaps — which Sepinwall helped popularize — were not always the preferred format of TV recaps. “It started online,” Sepinwall said. He began blogging about TV while at Penn, sometimes surreptitiously completing recaps of his favorite show, NYPD Blue, during an all-night editing session at the Daily Pennsylvanian office. “I had kind of fallen for NYPD Blue in my sophomore year,” he said. Once Penn students were first given emails, he began meeting other NYPD Blue fans online, encouraging him to eventually set up his own blog. At The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J.
Trump, 69, said he was "officially running" this time during a nearly 45-minute speech at Trump Tower in New York City.
In the wake of recent cultural conflicts on campus, many Asian American students at Penn want the university and campus organizations to do more to bridge cultural gaps between ethic groups and create more dialogue about race on campus.
President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price announced Tuesday that Michael Platt has been selected as the sixteenth Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, effective July 1.
Philly Pride hosted the 2015 PrideDay LGBT Parade on Sunday, as various organizations marched past Independence Hall.
On Wednesday, Kenneth Kapikian and Dennis Gagliardi pled guilty in Pennsylvania federal court to defrauding Penn of more than $3 million.
See what crimes occurred in the Penn Patrol Zone between May 22 and June 4.
2015 College graduate Reginald Steward is suing Phi Kappa Psi as well as 2014 College graduate Charles Gibson over a sexual assault he claims took place after a Phi Kappa Psi rush party in January 2013.
Hillegass, a senior at St. Paul’s School in Concord, N.H., was detained last month by local police for allegedly burning his girlfriend’s leg with a hot lamp after a school dance in January.
Every year, a handful of students achieve what seems impossible to many: acceptance into all eight Ivy League schools. While many of this year’s accepted students decided to attend one of the Ivy Leagues, one student chose elsewhere.
One Penn-founded website is doing its best to help voters know whether or not what the politicians are saying is actually true.
On 40th and Locust, Sadik Karakulak leans over the front window of his food truck and hands a fresh order of falafel to his third customer in the last 10 minutes. He removes his gloves, checks his phone and returns to the front of the truck.
Astronomy assistant professor Cullen Blake and graduate student David Sliski hope to discover planets orbiting stars other than the Sun.