Taking interest in student ideas, professors are helping launch students’ careers by investing money in startup companies
The Daily Pennsylvanian recently sat down with Dan Garofalo, Penn’s lead environmental sustainability coordinator, to take a closer look at his role in implementing Penn’s sustainability initiatives.
This past summer, Penn’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy joined a coalition of more than 115 other institutions that plan to train and retain a group of 100,000 STEM teachers as part of the 100Kin10 Challenge.
A Daily Pennsylvanian reporter checks out multi-company workspace Independents Hall — or IndyHall, as it’s also known — in this reporter’s notebook.
Penn Excelano Project, created in 2001, is one of the top collegiate spoken word poetry groups in the nation. In April, members of the group will be traveling to California for the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational, one of the most elite spoken word competitions in the country.
Eater Philly reported yesterday that Chinese restaurant Han Dynasty will open another restaurant at 37th and Market streets — the University City Science Center.
Eater Philly reported yesterday that Chinese restaurant Han Dynasty will open another restaurant at 37th and Market streets — the University City Science Center.
The Daily Pennsylvanian recently sat down with Dan Garofalo, Penn’s lead environmental sustainability coordinator, to take a closer look at his role in implementing Penn’s sustainability initiatives.
This past summer, Penn’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy joined a coalition of more than 115 other institutions that plan to train and retain a group of 100,000 STEM teachers as part of the 100Kin10 Challenge.
Arab Spring? A “psychological rupture” is a more fitting term for the chaos in the Middle East, according to political analyst and London School of Economics and Political Science professor Fawaz Gerges.
The Nursing School recently launched “Game Solutions for Healthcare” initiative has called for all Penn students to create games together that have the potential to improve the health care field, especially in nurse-patient relations
Many students were unfamiliar with Canada’s work as a social activist and founder of the Harlem Children’s Zone — and some were unhappy with his selection.
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Mark Pincus, a 1988 Wharton alumnus, is the co-founder of the online social gaming company Zynga, and currently serves as its CEO.
The Reflection Room, located in the Religious Activities Common in the basement of the Graduate Student Center on Locust Walk, serves as a non-denominational space for silent reflection, prayer and meditation.
The law, which passed on March 14, stipulates that a valid ID must have an expiration date. Currently, Drexel, Pennsylvania State and Point Park universities and LaSalle College do not have expiration dates on their cards.
Some students suffer from drunkorexia — a combination of an eating disorder and binge drinking.
Savage and partner Terry Miller started the “It Gets Better” project in September 2010 in the wake of multiple suicides of young people who had been bullied for allegedly being LGBT.
According to Career Services’ recently released Summer Internship Survey Reports for students in the College of Arts and Sciences, 19 percent of rising seniors took unpaid work last summer.
Canada is founder and president of the Harlem Children’s Zone, a comprehensive education and health program that aims to end the cycle of poverty for families in Central Harlem.
The forum is an annual discussion panel sponsored by Penn trustee David Silfen and his wife Lyn. This year’s forum focused on the question, “Is America broken?”
In light of Penn’s decision to extend insurance coverage to employees seeking gender reassignment surgery — which was announced before spring break — members of the LGBT community believe that the University has achieved a milestone in regards to its changing attitudes about transgender issues on campus.
With the end of the interhouse selection period last Friday, many students are breathing a sigh of a relief as they finish up the task of picking a dorm for the next academic year.
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