08/02/07 5:00am
It looks like the market for online Ivy League gossip just got a little bigger.
Ivygateblog.com has heretofore been the only mainstream Web-based outlet for people wanting to get their fix of the latest higher education insider jokes and shenanigans.
Now, though, it will have to contend with a new blog known as Off the Record.
07/19/07 5:00am
t seems like the honor roll doesn't end in eighth grade - at least for the Penn Health System.
U.S. News and World Report, known for its college ranking system, recently released its list of the nation's top health systems.
Of the 173 hospitals that were ranked, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania came in 12th, scoring it a place on an "honor roll" which consists of the top 18 hospitals in the country.
07/12/07 5:00am
Next time you make a search for the musician "Dylan" on iTunes, don't be surprised to find some Dylan Thomas alongside Bob Dylan.
And if English professor Al Filreis gets his wish, what you'll be listening to is a poetry podcast straight from the Kelly Writers House's Pennsound Project.
06/28/07 5:00am
What's in a number?
Too much, apparently, for the presidents of some of the country's best liberal arts colleges.
These presidents met as part of the Annapolis Group in Annapolis, Md., on June 19 to discuss dropping their respective colleges' names from the list of rankings in U.
06/21/07 5:00am
Remember telling your friends that in 10 years we'd all be driving solar powered cars?
Well, you might have been right.
Armed with part of a $22.7 million grant from the Department of Energy, Penn Chemistry professor Andrew Rappe and a team of researchers from the Penn Energy Research Group are looking to change the way we use our sunlight.
06/14/07 5:00am
Nintendo wants you to be its friend.
With a marketing campaign geared toward a broad demographic of families and non-gamers, the company hopes to eschew the common conception of the solitary, non-social geek playing alone in his isolated dorm room.
With a price tag of a mere $250, the company seems to want not only a bigger crowd, but a hipper one as well.
