Student Life
This new tutoring program wants to give children of African descent a sense of pride in their heritage
The African Community Learning Program will allow children to explore their heritage through projects where they’ll investigate the culture of their homelands.
Photo Essay | Screen printing, honey tasting, and more at this year’s Greenfest
The semesterly event features various activities hosted by Penn's different environmental groups.
Too lazy to work out? These Penn professors are looking for a way to change that.
In a wide-scale new experiment, Psychology professor Angela Duckworth and Wharton professor Katherine Milkman are looking into how Penn students can be left wondering just how they can motivate themselves to stay in shape.
Wal-Mart is making a big push to recruit Ivy League graduates
"Walmart is not the sexiest brand to work for," College senior Aaron Lai told Bloomberg, but as a computational biology major, he found the analytics side of the retail industry interesting.
Penn wants to 'identify' off-campus groups, but no clear plan exists for making them comply
This task force was formed in response to an offensive email sent by off-campus organization OZ two semesters ago.
Graduate students wanted to vote on their labor union months ago. Here’s why they haven’t.
Penn contested the terms of a crucial vote at the National Labor Relations Board for three months, delaying the efforts of pro-union graduate students.
'Dartys' and 'Downtowns': a guide to NSO parties from rising sophomores
“I felt a bit of pressure [to attend parties during NSO] but it was more because I wanted to make as many friends as I could and going out was a good way to do that."
Penn tops the Ivy League for employability, according to new report
Princeton University had the lowest score — 48.3 percent lower than the Ivy League average — according to the report from Indeed.com
Meet the biology professor who just became the new College dean
Paul Sniegowski is an avid biker known among colleagues and students for his friendliness and sense of humor.
One Penn researcher is working to allow robots to 'feel with their eyes'
You might have seen fifth-year Ph.D student Alex Burka walking around campus with his “Proton Pack” — a large orange backpack equipped with sensors that collect information from various surfaces. This is why.
A vintage store is replacing the American Apparel on Walnut Street
Raxx Vintage offers men’s and women’s clothing from the 1960s through the 1990s. Store manager Lauren Saslow said merchandise would be made a little more preppy to appeal to Penn students.
'SABS-ing,' MERTed and more impossible acronyms — here is your guide to Penn lingo
On Campus Recruiting, also known as OCR, refers to the period where companies send representatives to Penn's campus to interview students for post-graduate jobs and summer internships.
Students launch a petition to gain the right to cancel their dining plans
The petition, which had collected 131 signatures by Wednesday evening, was created by rising Engineering sophomore and web developer for The Daily Pennsylvanian Colby Cox.
Penne Restaurant is closing down to make way for a new establishment
Penne Restaurant & Wine Bar, the Italian eatery known for its housemade pastas, has closed after 15 years.
Making the cut: Penn's selective club recruitment process and how students are trying to change it
The club recruitment process at Penn, which occurs every fall and spring, has been characterized by students as competitive and discouraging, according to a survey by the Undergraduate Assembly done in February.
Four years, two degrees — here's what life is like for students in Penn's dual degree programs
“I learned about game theory in ECON 10 [in Wharton] and in NETS 112 [in Engineering] from different perspectives and for different applications,” Engineering and Wharton freshman EJ Murphy said. “It painted a far more vivid picture.”
Philadelphia just passed a bill to ban conversion therapy for minors
Once the bill is placed into effect, mental health providers in Philly will be prohibited from trying to change the gender orientation or sexual identity of clients below the age of 18.
Penn has rejected students' latest proposal to divest from the fossil fuel industry
David Cohen, the chair of the board of trustees, said in a meeting last week that he thinks Penn has done enough to show its support for climate action.
Awarded the Fulbright scholarship, these Penn students want to make a difference across the world
College senior Jonah Rosen, who is going to teach at a university in Russia, said he's looking forward to "chart a different course" from the standard route taken by most Penn students into the corporate world.