Angelyn Irvin

Penn alumni are less likely to found companies based in Pennsylvania than other graduates of top universities are in their alma maters’ states

The new Wharton app, announced on the Wharton website on Nov. 29, allows students to access all of the school’s online resources via a centralized app

On Tuesday morning, the venture fund announced its investment committee. Made up of nine Penn and two Drexel students, the committee will make capital investments between $10,000 and $20,000 in student-run startups.

First Round is reaching out to student entrepreneurs in the region with the advent of the Dorm Room Fund, which will provide funding to startups run by University City students.

Penn Information Systems and Computing recently launched the Penn Box, a service that allows users to share files and folders from multiple devices. The service offers 20 gigabytes of storage for all active students, faculty and staff.

The explosion of open online courses now affords students across the globe free access to classes. Often, these courses don’t have required texts and post recommended reading lists, instead.

On Friday, the library, which was constructed on Oct. 22, 1962, hosted a commemoration for its 50th birthday. The event looked at past and present innovations in the building, including the ongoing revamping of the Special Collections Center.

PennApps Labs, a subsidiary of the Undergraduate Assembly, launched its UserVoice website on Monday. The UserVoice feature will allow students to submit ideas for potential projects in a forum.

Last Monday, anonymous “hacktivists” who go by the name Team GhostShell leaked student and faculty names, email addresses and PennCard numbers

The term “digital humanities” refers to an array of activities, such as the use of social media platforms as research environments and data mining within literary works, according to English professor James English, who is the founding director of DHF.