Neural-Behavioral Sciences building set to open in 2016
The School of Arts and Sciences is moving forward with its plan to construct a new Neural-Behavioral Sciences building, a 76,500-square-foot facility near 38th Street and University Avenue
The School of Arts and Sciences is moving forward with its plan to construct a new Neural-Behavioral Sciences building, a 76,500-square-foot facility near 38th Street and University Avenue
Voter registration in Pennsylvania officially closed Tuesday at midnight. Penn Leads the Vote sent in 1,498 registration forms as of Tuesday at 6 p.m., while Penn Democrats estimates sending in between 1,300 and 1,400 registration forms.
The new site, launched on Oct. 3, features new tabs about various aspects of life at Penn, including interdisciplinary learning, extracurricular activities and the city of Philadelphia.
Burglary: Sept. 30 — An unaffiliated 54-year-old female reported an unknown person stole a TV from her apartment at 3924 Market Street at around noon.
Voter registration in Pennsylvania officially closed Tuesday at midnight. Penn Leads the Vote sent in 1,498 registration forms as of Tuesday at 6 p.m., while Penn Democrats estimates sending in between 1,300 and 1,400 registration forms.
The new site, launched on Oct. 3, features new tabs about various aspects of life at Penn, including interdisciplinary learning, extracurricular activities and the city of Philadelphia.
Seneca International — founded last spring by College junior Alice Xie and College senior Ashleigh Taylor — aims to fill a void left by women’s advocacy groups already established on campus.
Last month, Tilghman announced that she will be stepping down from her position in June. When Tilghman assumed her presidency in 2001, one of her first administrative actions was to appoint Gutmann as the school’s provost.
A recent School of Nursing study proved that overworked nurses have a direct correlation to patient infections, injuries and death rates. The study surveyed more than 7,000 nurses in Pennsylvania and found them to be overwhelmingly dealing with burnout-related issues that include too many overtime hours and increase in patient load.
Greek Week, a twice-annual event sponsored by the Interfraternity Council, the Panhellenic Council and the Multicultural Greek Council, will kick off with a “Meet the Greeks” event on Locust Walk and will culminate on Sunday with the 12th annual Rena Rowan 5K Ribbon Run/Walk.
The survey, released in September, indicated that Penn Law School had the largest number of graduates working as first-year associates in Pennsylvania-based law firms, with 26 out of 136 total.
Last night in the Zellerbach Theatre, The Wharton School and the Penn Institute for Urban Research hosted a screening of Overdraft — a PBS documentary — which discusses the causes and dire consequences of the United States’ soaring national debt.
This semester, only “Urban Environments: Speaking about Lead in West Philadelphia” fulfills a sector requirement. Several other classes do count for foundational requirements.
Utsav Schurmans and his family are one of several “college house families” who call Penn’s college dormitories their permanent home. Living in a college house — and, for the children, growing up in one — is as normal and as “uniquely Penn” as one might expect it to be.
About 25 percent of this year’s incoming School of Veterinary Medicine class consists of students over the age of 25, according to the school’s admissions office. At the Perelman School of Medicine, more than 60 percent of incoming students over the past two years were non-traditional.
PhilaSoup group of teachers and educators gathered at the Kimmel Center to compete for micro-grants. The grants fund various types of projects so that educators can enhance their teaching.
In 2011 there was still a sizeable percentage of students who went into industries other than financial services and consulting. These jobs do not traditionally recruit through OCR. VIDEO: Word on the Walk | OCR Alternatives
With oral arguments on a landmark affirmative action case set to begin in front of the nation’s highest court on Wednesday, members of the higher education world and the Penn community are continuing to express mixed hopes about the court’s ruling. VIDEO: Word on the Walk | Affirmative Action
Among other things at its Sunday night general body meeting, the Undergraduate Assembly had a heated discussion with one of its fellow branches of student government, the Nominations and Elections Committee.
Navratri means “nine nights” and the festival, which lasts nine days and nine nights, is held in honor of the Hindu Mother Goddess, Shakti.