The Penn Museum offered an alternative approach to Valentine’s Day on Tuesday with a lecture entitled “Fifty Shades of Pompeii.”
Daphne Koller, co-founder and CEO of the free online course provider Coursera, hopes to bring her company into a global context.
An online education startup from Stanford, Coursera offers free online classes taught by top university professors across the nation. A Coursera course grants students instant access to several hours of lecture videos and quizzes put together by the course professor.
The forum is an annual discussion panel sponsored by Penn trustee David Silfen and his wife Lyn. This year’s forum focused on the question, “Is America broken?”
SPEC-TRUM, the Social Planning and Events Committee To Represent Undergraduate Minorities, hosted Ansari for their annual spring event.
Members of PFYD volunteer in about 15 Philadelphia high schools, particularly targeting those that are lacking debate programs, in order to spread debate education.
150 spectators entered a raffle to win dates with the contestants of their choice. The event was organized for a Wharton Management project, and the proceeds went to the Face to Face organization.
While protesters continued the efforts of the Occupy Philadelphia movement at City Hall, a panel of four addressed approximately 60 students Thursday night in the ARCH building to discuss one of the leading sources of national debate — urban poverty.
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