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(04/28/19 3:47pm)
Renaldo Nehemiah knows what it’s like to be the star of the Penn Relays. In 1979, running the anchor leg, he led the University of Maryland to victory in the shuttle hurdle relay, 4x200-meter relay, and 4x400-meter relay, and he earned the meet MVP award.
(04/25/19 2:09am)
As his Penn career comes to an end, senior offensive lineman Tommy Dennis has hopes of being drafted to the NFL.
(04/25/19 3:26am)
More than 50 students, faculty, and staff members gathered Wednesday to honor the lives of the 359 people killed by bombings that struck several churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.
(04/24/19 6:13am)
As we approach the last day of classes, conversations around campus are shifting from final exams and projects to summer plans — be they family vacations, spontaneous road trips with friends, internships, or jobs.
(04/24/19 11:57pm)
For Michaela McMahon, playing college lacrosse might have seemed like fate.
(05/01/19 3:16am)
Penn researchers found that a Philadelphia pilot program shows potential for mitigating homelessness and the opioid epidemic.
(04/23/19 6:25am)
More than two dozen students, faculty, and local residents stood in protest and recited poetry Monday afternoon to call on Penn to save the Penn Book Center, which announced its closure two weeks ago after nearly 60 years on campus.
(04/24/19 3:35am)
Anthony Ayebiahwe used to look for light by sitting outside the homes of neighbors with generators when the electricity went out in his hometown of Elmina, Ghana. Now, the Weitzman School of Design master's student is creating an affordable LED lamp and flooding alert system to help the local residents deal with the challenges he faced in his youth.
(04/14/19 11:30pm)
This Saturday, Penn men’s heavyweight and lightweight rowing took to the water against a few Ivy League competitors. The lightweights competed at home on the Schuylkill River against Columbia and Yale, while the heavyweights took a short trip over to Leonia, N.J. to face both Columbia and Princeton.
(04/10/19 6:02am)
Two more Penn students have been diagnosed with mumps, just two weeks after the University announced the first case of mumps on campus. The cases follow an outbreak at nearby Temple University that has sickened at least 140 students.
(04/10/19 1:43am)
April has arrived, and with that has come Autism Awareness Month. On the surface, this seems like a great thing. As an autistic person, however, April consists mostly of people showing how ignorant they are about autism. Imagine, after revealing you are autistic, the almost universal response is, “You have autism? Really? I never would have guessed - you don’t look like you do at all!” What is that supposed to mean, exactly? (Hint: it’s not actually a compliment). Overall, April is exhausting, not liberating.
(04/01/19 1:42am)
The Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology — commonly referred to as M&T — held its second annual summit on Saturday. Students heard from investors and entrepreneurs, interacted with program alumni, and saw presentations of senior student design projects.
(04/01/19 7:46am)
Penn broke another record this year with its lowest-ever overall acceptance rate of 7.44 percent.
(04/01/19 4:14am)
When I arrived at Penn, I had fully bought in to that uniquely American, ubiquitous cliché about college: it will be the best four years of your life, so make the most of it!
(03/26/19 5:31am)
She started track by accident. Now she is second in the nation.
(03/22/19 12:57am)
Sexual misconduct allegations surfaced Thursday against the philanthropist and 1960 Wharton graduate Michael Steinhardt, the namesake of the building that houses Penn Hillel.
(03/19/19 10:38pm)
It’s been one week since the college admission scandal broke. I was in the midst of working on a high school junior’s college list, making sure it was balanced with a good mix of “likely,” “target,” and “reach” schools, when my phone started buzzing. My first message came from a Penn alum — yes, I stay in touch with my Penn friends. The Facebook messenger post stated, “Holy cr*p. Are you hearing about this huge admissions fraud case? Turn on CNN.” As I ran to turn on my television, two more texts came in with similar messages.
(03/18/19 10:00pm)
Less than a week after news broke on the nationwide admissions scandal, John Legend, a 1999 College graduate, criticized the college admissions system for being "rigged" while at the iHeartRadio Music Awards on Mar. 14.
(03/17/19 2:47am)
On alumni weekend, a giant inflatable castle was set up in a corner of Franklin Field for kids to play in and enjoy.
(03/17/19 12:20am)
And that’s what you call a bounce-back win.