Student Life
Houston Market will receive a $15.15 million renovation this summer
The renovated market will feature a Mongolian grill station, a sandwich carving station, as well as new kiosk portals where students can place orders and pay for items.
Penn Debate Society and Philomathean Society debate the effectiveness of progressive stacking
The debate, which was organized by the Penn Debate Society and the Penn Philomathean Society, came three weeks after History TA Stephanie McKellop came under fire for tweeting about the method.
'Good tunes for a good cause': this new student group works like a record label for Penn musicians
Penn Records hopes to function like a university-level record label, working with student musicians to help them find opportunities to perform and access the equipment they need.
The Intercultural Greek Council has launched a fund to support collaboration across minority groups
The IGC approved the first grant of this fund to host a discussion focused on the Mirabal Sisters, four historic feminist political figures from the Dominican Republic.
The Climate Reality Project at Penn wants to be a 'moderate voice' advocating for carbon neutrality
Wharton sophomore Shane Goldstein and College sophomore Abigail Waugh founded Penn's chapter for the Climate Reality Project last fall.
Penn for Immigrant Rights staged a walkout on Thursday to advocate against the reversal of DACA
Two dozen students gathered on College Green to participate in the National Day of Action for a Clean Dream Act, which inspired walkouts at 30 schools across the country.
Penn proposed a series of changes to social event policies — but grad student leaders barely know about them
Various graduate student leaders were completely unaware of the new regulations, despite some communication between the University and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly about them.
Penn students who drop below four courses stand to lose access to varsity sports, Greek life
College senior Haley Mankin took three courses during both semesters of her freshman year, and said the option to do so is important for all students.
Two Penn graduates are designing new technology to help doctors better understand mental health
The two Penn founders of Neuroflow have created a data analytics platform to measure stress markers in real time.
Persistent discrepancies in academic advising prompt renewed interest in improving the system
In 2014, nearly half of Penn students indicated that they were dissatisfied with pre-major advising and close to a third indicated that they were dissatisfied with their major advisors.
Penn hosts weekly 'office hours' to clarify social event policies, but most students don't know they exist
The Division of Public Safety and the Vice Provost for University Life have begun hosting hourlong sessions every Friday at 11 a.m. to address student concerns.
Dozens of Penn students are studying in Catalonia. Here's what Penn did when protests hit the region.
From Oct. 1 to Oct. 3, Penn students studying abroad in Barcelona were evacuated out from the city to Peñíscola, a town south of Catalonia.
Why some students are told by Career Services that they might be banned from OCR
Several students say this warning can add to their stress, particularly during a personal crisis, but administrators say most who receive this message are never actually banned from OCR.
Teams of six to eight CAPS staff discuss each student's treatment — often without their knowledge
These treatment teams are reshuffled every three years, sometimes forcing students to switch from their CAPS psychiatrists.
Meet the Penn students and faculty making films to advocate for refugee communities
“People don’t consider that refugees had a full and vibrant life before they became refugees. This experience of being a refugee isn’t all that they are. They’re so much more than that.”
Penn students are creating 'Penn Club Review' to change the University's stressful club culture
Students said they were influenced by Harvard University’s Q-Guide, a resource launched this fall that provides reviews and comments about different student clubs.
Penn students debated the gun rights advocate and Fox News columnist John Lott last week
“People can’t agree on facts," College senior Nicholas Hagemann said. "At the end of the debate, they are just saying ‘Your facts are wrong.’”
Phila. leaders think hosting Amazon's HQ2 will benefit the city. This Penn Law professor isn't so sure.
"Amazon isn’t just 50,000 jobs and an office complex over the tracks. It’s 50,000 jobs and an office complex over the tracks controlled by a single negotiator."
Students rubbed shoulders with owners of sports teams at the inaugural Wharton Sport Business Summit
The star-studded lineup of panelists included the owner of basketball team Philadelphia 76ers Josh Harris and the general manager for baseball team Houston Astros.