The Wistar Institute announced last week that Russel E. Kaufman, its President/CEO, will step down, effective March 2, 2015. Dario C.
Martin Seligman's "learned helplessness" studies influenced the CIA.
About a half-hour before one of Penn basketball’s typical Tuesday evening practices, assistant coach Ira Bowman was counting out Greg Louis — literally.
We wrote back in September about how Penn School of Design graduate James Dupree was fighting to save his art studio from an eminent domain claim. Now, Dupree has won his battle, as the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority has dropped its condemnation of his property, citing rising legal fees. The PRA had gotten approval to build a supermarket on the space, but Dupree challenged the claim in court.
Amid the fallout of Rolling Stone's article on an alleged gang-rape at a University of Virginia frat party, sexual assault at college has been a topic on the minds of many in the last month. The New York Times published an article on Sunday about an accused rapist and his accuser coexisting at Columbia. Emma Sulkowicz, a senior at Columbia, garnered national attention for her thesis project a few months ago, in which she is carrying a mattress around campus until her alleged rapist is expelled from campus. Both Sulkowicz and Paul Nungesser, the accused rapist, are frustrated with the way that Columbia has handled the case and its aftermath.
Tennessee has certainly not been kind to Penn's basketball teams this season. The Red and Blue's two basketball programs have both traveled to the Volunteer State to take on SEC opponents over the past month.
Tennessee has certainly not been kind to Penn's basketball teams this season. The Red and Blue's two basketball programs have both traveled to the Volunteer State to take on SEC opponents over the past month.
Martin Seligman's "learned helplessness" studies influenced the CIA.
About a half-hour before one of Penn basketball’s typical Tuesday evening practices, assistant coach Ira Bowman was counting out Greg Louis — literally.
The Obama Administration and U.S.
Another list, another top 10 for Penn (and Wharton). College Factual came out with its top 10 list for colleges with a major in finance and Wharton was named No.
Over the past week, the story of Phi Delta Theta's questionable holiday card has been all over the news. The card featured a dark-skinned blow-up doll that the fraternity says was a Beyonce blow-up doll. Now Philadelphia Magazine senior reporter Victor Fiorillo has written a column about the card, saying that while the card was racially insensitive, it was not in fact racist. "Stupid?
It is every high school senior's worst nightmare: A mistaken acceptance letter. Johns Hopkins, which accepted 15 early decision applicants, sent emails to 294 rejected students that said they were accepted to Class of 2019. The Washington Post reported the mistake, with the email saying "Embrace the YES," that was sent to 285 denied applicants and nine who were deferred. Hopkins Vice Provost for admissions and financial aid David Phillips said the mistake was due to human error. “We apologize to the students affected and to their families,” Phillips said to the Post.
Law school enrollment is at its lowest level since 1982, according to multiple reports. The American Bar Association said that law school enrollment fell seven percent from last year and has gone down 17.5 percent since 2010.
The Obama Administration has pushed for a college ratings system and the Department of Education will unveil the outline for one on Friday. The Department of Education will display the outline of its metrics, which the federal government will use to rate colleges.
Riepe College House's Mentors program brings Penn freshmen to tutor West Philadelphia elementary school students. Mentors is a freshman residential program that has been in place for over a decade, pairing 25 Penn freshmen with West Philadelphia elementary school students.
Penn Pakistan Society hosted a candlelight vigil for the 141 people killed in a Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar.
The president of Barnard College is weighing the possibility of adding an admissions policy for transgender students, the New York Times reports. Barnard President Debora L.
While Penn made its early decision announcement yesterday, it wasn't the only school to release its early admission decisions recently. The rest of the Ivy League as well as Stanford and MIT has released its early action and early decision numbers, which Business Insider neatly tied up in one article for your reading pleasure. MIT had the lowest acceptance rate among the top colleges listed, accepting just 9.6 percent of over 6,000 applicants.
Other Ivies accommodated law students on a case-by-case basis
James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, the architects of the C.I.A.'s interrogation techniques, applied research done by Penn professor Martin E.P.
All chapter operations have been suspended for the duration of the investigation.
A New York Times article looked into why colleges around the country haven't taken the steps necessary to eliminate the large number of binge drinking cases that plague universities. The article, written by Beth McMurtrie of The Chronicle for Higher Education, focuses on how universities have identified the issue of college drinking yet aren't fixing the problem.
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