Bike share programs take shape at Penn
PennCycles — a bike share initiative — is hoping to receive funding to launch its pilot in March.
PennCycles — a bike share initiative — is hoping to receive funding to launch its pilot in March.
As the events of 9/11 recede further into the past, educators are debating how to best present the historical event to college students who grew up with it and younger students who have little memory of the day.
On Sunday, the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Penn Museum Associate Director of Education Jean Byrne hopes students will find a place to reflect and share stories at the exhibit, which opened August 20.
A snapshot of Penn on the morning of September 11.
As the events of 9/11 recede further into the past, educators are debating how to best present the historical event to college students who grew up with it and younger students who have little memory of the day.
On Sunday, the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Penn Museum Associate Director of Education Jean Byrne hopes students will find a place to reflect and share stories at the exhibit, which opened August 20.
Nearly a year after 2010 Graduate School of Education graduate Daniel Chinburg started Penn’s Tea Party branch, the movement died as quickly as it came.
New measures since 2001 include creating a position for a deputy chief of tactical emergency readiness.
Despite some students’ reported horror stories, BoxMyDorm claimed that, for the most part, deliveries have run smoothly this September.
Reduced federal funding has led to cuts in staff and school-based programs.
The Alzheimer’s Institute of America, which filed a lawsuit against Penn last fall over the use of a patented type of lab mice, will go to court with the University.
An interactive map of crime around campus last week.
A city-wide curfew designed to limit the number of violent flash mobs is likely to end in a few days, but Penn Police aren’t fazed by the prospect of flash mob appearances on campus.
Sixteen parties were shut down this year during New Student Orientation, including 11 off campus and five on campus.
In addition, alcohol-related incidents fell about 32 percent compared to last year.
The annual welcome reception for new graduate and professional students was held at the Annenberg Center lobby. The two-hour reception was organized by the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, the Office of the President and the Graduate Student Center.
For the first time, College freshmen in the Benjamin Franklin Scholars program are living together in Riepe College House and taking a class together every day. The class will integrate different disciplines, including the humanities, sciences and social sciences, said BFS Director Peter Struck.
Penn students looking to transfer into the Wharton School now have to prove themselves through words, not just numbers.
WebCafé — which is used by the majority of Wharton students and professors to organize their coursework — may be increasingly challenged by Canvas, a new system that has been gradually introduced since last spring.
City Council members have until Sept. 9 to come up with a district map of Philadelphia. This year, five Philadelphia groups collaborated to create FixPhillyDistricts.com, a website where citizens can log on and redraw the district map for themselves.