Student Life
Meet the Penn student who has written an entire musical adaptation of 'The Great Gatsby'
Theater Arts and English lecturer David Fox said that alhough he has seen many students write plays, this is the first fully-developed musical that he has seen from a student.
The Netter Center at Penn celebrated 25 years of community engagement last week
The two-day conference featured speeches from Penn President Amy Gutmann, Provost Wendell Pritchett, Dean of Admissions Eric Furda, and Netter Center Founding Director Ira Harkavy.
To connect to students, new College Dean Paul Sniegowski has joined Snapchat
After debating between social media platforms with DAB members and his children, the dean decided on Snapchat — and signed up as "sniegowskisnaps."
Why this Asian advocacy group is calling the Common Application discriminatory
In a letter, the Asian American Coalition for Education called on the Common App to "stop the practice of subdividing Asian American applicants into 10 subcategories."
Graduate students at UChicago formed a union in October — why hasn't Penn been able to?
GET-UP member and education PhD student Miranda Weinberg said the group has been waiting three times as long as it usually takes to have their petition processed.
Construction delays from University Realty have left dozens of Penn students without a home for months
Close to 70 students who were told that they could move into a new building at 4046 Chestnut St. in August have been shuttled from one temporary location to another.
One of Israel's top politicians expressed her support for a two-state solution at Penn on Thursday
“There are those who say that it is either peace or security,” Tzipi Livni said. “We can have both. It is peace and security.”
A new poll shows that Joe Biden would lead Trump in the coming 2020 general election
The survey showed that in a potential match-up between the two politicians, Biden would lead Trump 46 to 35 percent.
Penn students were moved to tears by Joe Biden's stories of loss and grief on Thursday
In a "raw and emotional" talk, Biden discussed the 2015 death of his son to cancer as well as the deaths of his wife and daughter in 1972.
After the death of a fraternity pledge, Texas State University suspends all Greek life
20-year-old Matthew Ellis has become the fourth fraternity pledge to die this year.
Penn just approved its third housing project in four years. But is another dorm necessary?
Despite statements from administrators, student accounts, along with data from off-campus housing facilities, suggest that there isn't an increasing demand for on-campus housing.
Only one Penn dining hall serves halal food — and students say it has made multiple mistakes
Multiple students have reported incidents of halal food at Kings Court English House being cooked with cooking wine, which is not permissible under the rules of halal.
Hundreds gathered at Penn Tuesday to discuss how to improve the mental health of minority students
“Mental health is not just an issue for black students and students of color, but there are unique ways in which it impacts them,” said Alfiee Breland-Noble, a panelist at the conference.
Penn group offering professional resources to first gen., low income students is growing in strength
Nearly a year after the group was launched in January, organizers have enlisted over 100 professionals for their mentorship program.
Meet the two College juniors selling beef jerky sourced from Amish artisans
Penn's on-campus market Gourmet Grocer began stocking products from the student-run company "Ninth Street Jerky" on Nov. 12.
The journalist who broke the story on Trump's Access Hollywood tape spoke to Penn students on Tuesday
The Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold rose to national prominence during the 2016 presidential campaign for a series of investigative articles on Trump's charitable giving.
The new Republican tax plan could make a Penn graduate education unattainable for students
“We are emphatically opposed to this tax proposal," said Graduate and Professional Student Assembly President Miles Owen.
Meet the Penn student going on 'coffee dates' to clear up misinformation about Muslim Americans
“There is a vacuum of information that is just not there, that the media continues to fill with misinformation,” third-year Penn Law student Akbar Hossain said.
In this week's crime log: underage drinking at Hill College House and a series of assaults
On Oct. 28, Penn Police arrested a man affiliated to Penn at Hill College House for underage drinking and issued him a citation.