On Wednesday, October 29, Penn will participate in the national “Carrying the Weight Together” National Day of Action. Students across the country will carry mattresses and pillows in protest of sexual assault.

The Teachers Institute of Philadelphia brings together Penn faculty and public school teachers from West and Southwest Philadelphia to learn from each other and from Penn professors. 

2007 Engineering and Wharton graduate Karthik Sridharan cofounded Kinnek, an online marketplace that matches small businesses with suppliers suited to their individual needs. The startup just received $10 million in funding.

As SEPTA union members could potentially go on strike starting next week, Penn has a plan to provide alternative transportation options.

Last week, the Mask and Wig fund officially announced the recipient of the first-ever Mask and Wig Club Performing Arts Scholarship. This year’s recipient is Nora Lueth who is an active member of multiple performing arts groups on campus.

Penn’s endowment returns were just average compared to its peers during fiscal year 2014.

There is less than a week remaining before early decision candidates for the Class of 2019 have to submit their applications. 

Students say that widespread news coverage has 

Like prospective undergraduates and MBA’s, prospective Wharton professors have to stand out a pool of candidates to score a spot on the faculty roster. 

On Oct. 28 this year, PennWorld is hosting its Mix It Up event to encourage intercultural conversations, as well as identifying and questioning social boundaries. Students will be assigned seats in dining halls so they can eat and talk with someone they don't normally interact with. The location in dining halls creates a symbol for change in a place where, normally, segregation is common.

Students are volunteering for political campaigns across the country, hoping to help influence the 2014 midterm elections

This year's Fall Green Week began Oct. 21, and will run until Oct. 28. Once a semester, organizations including the Penn Environmental Group, the Student Sustainability Association at Penn, the Kelly Writer's House, the Philomathean Society, and the Penn Vegan Society host the event, which broaches a number of environmental issues.

College 2006 graduate Adam Weber, along with College 2007 graduate Jimmy Goldblum, co-produced and co-directed a documentary called “Tomorrow We Disappear,” which premiered last weekend. The film was inspired by Salman Rushdie’s novel "Midnight’s Children," written in 1981 about India’s transition from British Colonialism to independence to British partition.

According to Wharton’s new dean, the biggest challenge facing women in the business world is ensuring that they “can have a balance between their families and their professional lives, with their husbands and partners.”

In April 2014, the White House released a report from its task force on sexual assault outlining measures schools should take to combat the issue on campuses nationwide.

Before he became a Philadelphia public school principal, Ted Domers learned about how other school leaders ? from private, public and parochial schools ?