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(10/01/18 12:38am)
Penn announced on Sept. 24 that Michael DiBerardinis, the managing director of Philadelphia, will join the Fels Institute of Government faculty in January 2019 as a professor of practice. This comes amid ongoing alumni efforts for Fels to be more transparent about the drastic administrative turnover within Fels and include input from the larger Fels community, including alumni, students, and other stakeholders.
(10/17/18 1:07am)
Residents of 3929 and 3931 Pine St., many of whom are Penn students, may be evicted next Friday on Oct. 26, according to a notice posted on the building and confirmed by Philadelphia’s Department of Licenses and Inspection.
(09/22/18 11:44pm)
That's how you keep the momentum going.
(09/22/18 8:27pm)
Eating Thanksgiving dinners, opening holiday gifts, and Penn playing Princeton in the Palestra are all time-honored traditions. Sometimes though, the turkey burns, you don’t get the gift you hoped for, or Princeton walks away with a win on Penn’s historic home court.
(09/19/18 3:16am)
Roxie* is a 34-year-old, divorced mother of two. Originally from Maryland, she moved to Philadelphia on a whim a few months ago, and quickly fell in love with the city. She has a job in the medical industry, and enjoys taking detours to South Philly and Chinatown on the weekends. The cost of living in Philadelphia can be brutal. Luckily, Roxie has a lucrative side-gig: She makes $2,000 per month as a prostitute.
(09/24/18 12:36am)
As I begin my senior year, I want to take some time to reflect on my Penn experience. Although it's not over yet and there are many months to go, I think it's important for me to start coming to terms with what my time at Penn has both given me and taken from me. Our time as Quakers not only shapes us into who we are as people, but also reveals a sense of who we will become in the future and how we will confront the adversity that life will throw at us.
(09/17/18 12:12am)
The state of Pennsylvania has 18 seats in the House of Representatives and two seats in the Senate — all of which are currently held by men. But come this season's midterm election, 1984 Penn Law graduate Mary Gay Scanlon might help change that.
(09/11/18 12:03am)
For Karekin Brooks, family means everything.
(09/05/18 5:20am)
The man charged in connection to the murder of former Penn sophomore Blaze Bernstein will officially stand trial, a judge ruled Tuesday.
(08/30/18 1:59am)
While many students have been escaping the outdoor heat by heading inside to their air-conditioned dorm rooms, other students have not been quite so lucky.
(08/30/18 3:57am)
When students think about spending a semester abroad in Paris or Beijing, few think about doing it in their final year of college. This year however, Penn has seen a marked increase in the number of seniors opting to study abroad.
(08/30/18 2:04am)
Bonding with the residents of your freshman dormitory is a Penn tradition, but most students do not typically choose to stay in these dorms for more than a year — that is, until New College House came along.
(08/21/18 12:28am)
As Penn opens its doors for another year and a new batch of incoming freshmen, here are some of the biggest stories from last semester.
(07/22/18 11:49pm)
Two months after Starbucks held a four-hour anti-bias training, some Philadelphia Starbucks employees say they believe the stores still aren't getting it.
(06/12/18 2:23pm)
The preliminary hearing to determine whether to proceed to trial in the case against 20-year-old Samuel Woodward, who was charged in the murder of Penn student Blaze Bernstein, has been postponed. The hearing was previously set for June 14.
(06/02/18 4:41pm)
Penn is third on a list of universities that have the most billionaire alumni, according to a new ranking.
(05/16/18 12:53am)
It’s really easy to hide behind a camera.
(05/06/18 5:29pm)
Most people thought that a conference championship contest between the two regular season co-champions of the Ivy League would go back and forth.
(05/05/18 3:49pm)
In the last 24 hours, several women have come forth to accuse Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz of behaving inappropriately. Among them is Carmen Maria Machado, a faculty member and artist-in-residence at Penn.
(05/03/18 5:04pm)
I knew that life could be challenging. I had to ask my parents twice for a Canada Goose jacket before they bought me one in middle school. I actually had to pay someone to complete my application to Penn, even though I’m a double legacy and the application is just a formality. But last Wednesday, I experienced the true difficulty of a world set against me. I ordered a vanilla latte at Pret, and I had to wait eight minutes before they gave me my drink.
