Student Life
From the Pride Walk to the Drag Show: how the annual QPenn honored the LGBTQ lineage
Students are celebrating LGBTQ identity through an art exhibit, moving screenings, and talks on identity at this year's QPenn. The theme for the week is "Lineage" – in honor of LGBTQ history.
Following mass shootings, student groups host nonpartisan 'walk-in' to discuss gun violence
Penn's chapters of Common Party, TableTalk Global, and Bridge USA hosted the event, which took place in Houston Hall on March 20.
Penn Global Seminars expands to allow students to travel to 12 locations as part of class
The goal of Penn Global Seminars is to provide “greater access” to Penn students by increasing the number of students that can participate and the variety of locations offered, according to Penn Abroad Director Nigel Cossar.
Penn Dental student Roopali Kulkarni elected to represent dental students nationwide
The ASDA is a national student-led organization with over 24,000 members that holds meetings throughout the year for students to network and receive education on issues currently challenging dentistry.
Penn grads are fundraising a scholarship for midwives of color — a field that's 95% white
As their graduating gift, the Class of 2017 of Penn’s Nurse-Midwifery program decided to start a scholarship for midwives of color.
At Civic House event, speaker urges activism with 'risky, disruptive, and creative schemes'
Camika Royal spoke for this year's Alvin P. Gutman Public Scholar Lecture, an annual Civic House event that invites a noted scholar to inspire guests to actively seek social change.
Filling a gap at Penn, these Wharton students created a seminar to design mobile apps
Design of Mobile Products is a seminar consisting of six 90-minute sessions that introduce students to the basics of designing and prototyping a mobile app.
Hundreds honored Blaze Bernstein at a memorial in California this weekend
The memorial, entitled, #BlazeItForward, was organized to thank volunteers who helped search for Bernstein when he went missing and who continued to help the family after his body was found.
Civil Rights advocate calls on students to create a 'society that puts human beings first'
As Black History Month comes to a close, Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation, Civic House, and Phi Beta Sigma fraternity organized the talk with civil rights advocate James McFadden.
Student groups work together to address mental health in Eating Disorder Awareness Week
For National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, Project HEAL has several initiatives, including a laptop sticker fundraiser and the distribution of informational brochures given out on Locust Walk.
Harnwell's new 'Eco-House' residential program will integrate 'living with sustainability'
The mission of Eco-House is to demonstrate affordable sustainable living in order to inform, engage, and inspire Penn’s fellow residents, visitors, and community members.
Penn receives a record-breaking 44,482 applicants for the Class of 2022
37,409 applications were submitted in the regular decision application process while the remaining 7,073 were part of the early decision batch.
#MeToo movement: effective platform or 'support from afar'? Penn students weigh in.
While open to anyone who wanted to attend, the meeting consisted of half a dozen members of PennFems, a feminist student organization that hosted the event.
Penn has the 'most attractive' applicants to investment banking firms, report says
Penn is the target of 3.2 percent of the recruitment and hiring efforts of major firms including Credit Suisse Group, Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup, reported Business Insider on Tuesday.
Students critique sexual assault policy after admin. say they haven't heard significant feedback
A day before the Open Forum, Pritchett said he hadn't heard significant criticism of Penn's policies on reporting sexual assault but that the U. was 'going to continue to ask that question.'
NPR journalist Rhitu Chatterjee discusses gender violence in India at KWH event
Attendees filled the space at the event titled “Reporting on Gender Violence in India," a discussion sponsored by the Penn South Asia Center and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
Facebook representatives spoke to Penn's Women in Computer Science club on Tuesday
The talk primarily featured employees from Oculus, which emphasized the potential of virtual reality, as well as the diversity of applicants the companies are looking for.
Penn formed a group to research its historical ties to slavery. Here's what it aims to do.
In an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian, Pritchett, the group's chair, wrote that its purpose is to better "our understanding of Penn's connection to slavery and the implications of these findings."
At campus memorial for Blaze Bernstein, friends and family shared food, photos, and memories
Laughter and tears filled the Kelly Writer's House this afternoon as friends and family of College sophomore Blaze Bernstein shared personal stories of the 19-year-old Penn student.