Penn Engineers’ summer projects include cockroach inspired robots and improved cell phone chips.
Emily deLisle
Penn Vet signs land conservation easement
The agreement preserves more than 145 acres of farmland in the Philadelphia suburbs.
New bioethics minor offered this fall
The new med school and SAS minor has a six-course requirement.
Penn sees rise in Forbes rankings
Penn has jumped from 17 to 11 in Forbes’ top college rankings, which were published last Wednesday.
Poli sci prof testifies at Pa. voter ID trial
Diana Mutz, professor of political science and communication, testified as an expert witness last Friday in a trial on the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s voter identification law.
Many Penn students interviewed by the DP felt that an article in the New York Times about Penn’s hookup culture did not capture the full University community.
Inaugural Singh center director announced
On June 17, Mark G. Allen was named the inaugural scientific director of the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology.
Several members of Penn’s Turkish community were only blocks away from the violence of the protests in Taksim Square, while others have friends and family nearby.
Freshman seminar curates ICA exhibit
The exhibit “Each One As She May: Ligon, Reich, and De Keersmaeker” in Penn’s Institute of Contemporary Art is the culmination of the year-long Spiegel Contemporary Art Freshman Seminar.
Panel discusses future of UCHS
Wednesday afternoon at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, NBC 10 and Axis Philly, a local nonprofit news and information organization, hosted a panel entitled “What’s Next? A Forum on the Future of University City High School.”
We know what you engineered last summer...
Collaboration between students and faculty led to several research breakthroughs.






