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Academics

There’s always something new going on at Penn’s four undergraduate schools and 12 graduate schools. Look here for information on upcoming academic initiatives, new classes and research conducted by professors and students.

02/11/15 12:55am
If you’re looking to go straight from college to the corner office, look no further than Penn’s co-ed business fraternities.
02/10/15 11:44pm
NICK MONCY is a College junior from North Miami, Fla. His email address is nickmon@sas.upenn.edu.
02/10/15 1:08am
Is emphasizing everything the same as emphasizing nothing? Penn’s choice of a STEAM approach to education  — instead of a STEM approach — has raised this question.
02/10/15 1:08am
John Lapinski is a Penn professor of political science, but when he’s not doing that, he’s also the Director of the Elections Unit at NBC. His connections at NBC News makes PORES, hard-launching this spring, unique.
02/10/15 1:06am
A class at Penn led a 1997 Wharton grad to develop an alternative to the traditional leading universities.
02/10/15 12:28am
Two Lincoln-autographed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation, along with other rare artifacts concerning its history, are being displayed in the new exhibit “The Great Emancipator and the Great Central Fair” at Van Pelt Library.
02/09/15 1:02am
In the same conversation, Classical Studies Professor Ralph Rosen can span topics from Jesus to Eminem, all the while exploring one of his favorite concepts: satire.
02/09/15 12:57am
In the past 30 years text book prices have increased by over 813 percent as of 2012.
02/07/15 10:00am
The UA and Penn’s Committee on Open Expression seeks to post student feedback on Penn Course Review.
02/04/15 1:21am
A Penn Medicine study found that cancer rates are lower in places with higher elevation.
02/04/15 12:02am
The School of Arts and Sciences Strategic Plan's proposes to include community service, internships or research as part of graduation requirements.
02/03/15 12:40am
The percentage of graduates accepting jobs in the finance sector has been decreasing over the past five years.
02/03/15 12:14am
As students, we are not only expected to succeed, but we are in a sense not even allowed to not succeed. Academically, professionally and socially we are surrounded by an overabundance of paths to reach “success.”
01/29/15 12:23am
With dozens of courses fulfilling each requirement, the College of Arts and Sciences' sectors are not particularly constraining — but administrators still want to ensure that each one does its job.
01/26/15 11:11pm
Penn received a $500,000 grant in 2013 from the Association of American Universities to implement the SAIL teaching method, which encourages self-teaching, but many students have found their courses to be lacking.
01/26/15 1:00am
Despite criticism to next year's theme, "The Year of Discovery" will not be void of discussions about race relations.
01/26/15 12:02am
Penn Graduate School of Education Professors John Puckett and Michael Johanek are co-teaching the first Massive Open Online Course to come out of the GSE.
01/25/15 10:00am
Economics professor Gizem Saka teaches classes ranging from consumer behavior to labor economics at Penn.
01/24/15 10:00am
Last semester, two engineering students produced a project meant to enlighten the public about the lack of recognition for females in the engineering field.
01/23/15 2:00pm
One Perelman School of Medicine researcher and faculty member is coordinating two studies investigating the effects of marijuana on post-traumatic stress disorder, made possible by a recent $7.6 million grant from the state of Colorado.