05/12/10 10:08pm
Though some say the role of nurses is expanding, what has really changed is the increased availability of nurse practitioners, said Eileen Sullivan-Marx, associate dean for practice and community affairs at the Nursing School.
04/29/10 1:48am
The game levels are based on different parts of the city, such as West Philadelphia, Rittenhouse Square and Center City. The creators may also solicit retail owners to get involved by allowing their stores to be included in the game.
04/22/10 2:45am
Nursing graduate student Erin Johnson was announced the winner of the 2010 Hollie Shaner-McRae Nursing Student Essay Contest, which is held annually to recognize a nurse’s role in environmental activism.
04/20/10 3:19am
The International Development Summer Institute Africa Program, a new collaboration between the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the College’s African Studies Center, will send 14 students from Engineering, Wharton and the College to Ghana for four weeks this summer.
04/13/10 9:44pm
A campus-wide e-mail will be sent out encouraging students to submit their favorite recipes. Submissions will be accepted until April 23, and the winners will be announced April 28.
04/12/10 2:55am
The Tactile Gaming Vest — a vest that makes the player feel the physical effects of being shot in a game — is a Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics class project that was showcased at the 2010 IEEE Haptics Symposium in Boston.
04/02/10 2:40am
At Penn, many computer science students get jobs at companies like Google and Apple, according to Computer and Information Science professor Jean Griffin. This mentoring program hopes to give the average Philadelphia student the opportunity to work toward these jobs.
03/29/10 11:01pm
The new degree, which is currently accepting applications until June 1, will open doors for students interested in making a career out of nanotechnology.
03/26/10 1:50am
Simply by entering in their college e-mail addresses and passwords, students can instantly connect with each other from across the globe through Randomdorm.com — a new video-chat website.
03/24/10 3:57am
'Synapse' already has a general body of 250 students, a general board of 30 students, an advisory board of 10 faculty members and an executive board of eight students.
03/22/10 4:07am
To commemorate its 60th anniversary, the Society of Women Engineers held its Regional Conference here at Penn for the first time in over 50 years. Over 300 people representing various schools of the Mid-Atlantic region were in attendance.
03/18/10 6:32am
A creation of the Dean’s Advisory Board, Cognoscenti will provide prospective students with specific information about academic life in the College.
03/18/10 2:22am
Drexel University nursing students, among others, outscored Penn School of Nursing students on the National Council Licensure Examination, or NCLEX exams, for 2009.
03/03/10 5:01am
Verizon recently awarded the Nursing School a grant, which it plans to use to shift the focus of the women’s shelter program to domestic violence, according to Pamela Mack-Brooks, nursing manager of the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
02/24/10 7:10am
The circuit could be used in energy-saving devices and future technologies, potentially to power batteries in cell phones with energy from the sun and improve the efficiency of solar panels.
02/23/10 6:04am
Penn Nursing Dean Afaf Meleis and the entire nursing faculty is working on its strategic plan — a set of goals that it hopes to address over the next five years.
02/15/10 4:11am
Not only will Penn’s computer servers keep digital archives of the thousands of web pages that comprised the first forty issues of Jacket, but the Kelly Writers House will continue the magazine’s legacy with Jacket2, which will be released in 2011.
02/05/10 6:00am
Gayle Laakmann, current Wharton MBA student and former Google, Microsoft and Apple employee, gave a lecture Thursday to a crowd of Computer Science and Engineering students about how to successfully interview with software companies.
02/03/10 6:29am
Off the Beat and Penn Masala, two a cappella groups on Penn's campus, were featured in the “Best of College A Cappella” CD for 2010.
01/27/10 7:21am
In a new integrative and discussion-based course — CIS-125 Technology and Policy — undergraduate and graduate students grapple with the legal issues that relate to the advancement of technology.
