03/29/10 3:31am
At the 14th Annual Wharton India Economic Forum held Saturday at the Park Hyatt in Center City, India’s leading businessmen, politicians and film personalities discussed a wide variety of topics ranging from health care and performing arts to entrepreneurship in India.
06/04/09 11:27am
While most Penn students were settling in to another semester of math problems, term papers and study sessions, I was on the other side of the world, nervously fumbling with a piece of chalk as I presented grammar lessons to a group of 10-year-olds.
12/02/08 5:00am
Though the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India last week were thousands of miles away, for some students, they hit close to home.
And for some, the Thanksgiving break meant they were in Mumbai on Wednesday when a group of terrorists stormed the Taj Mahal and Oberoi Trident hotels, the popular Café Leopold and a highly c
11/24/08 5:00am
Playing a fantasy sports game online is one thing, but creating one, attracting one million users and then selling it, is another.
And that's what Wharton junior Boris Silver did when he combined his passions for sports and the Internet to create Total Sports Fan, a Facebook application that lets users feature their favorite sports and teams on their profile.
11/21/08 5:00am
The Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools has awarded Nursing Dean Afaf Meleis with its 2008 International Distinguished Leadership Award.
Meleis is being recognized for her international, professional and personal achievements in global health, a subject on which she has published six books and over 150 journal articles.
11/18/08 5:00am
During his pediatrics clinical, Nursing senior Colin Plover discovered that hiding the needle is an important tactic when giving a child a shot.
Like Plover, all nursing students need to fulfil a specific number of hours of patient-care clinicals in order to graduate, helping them gain hands-on experience.
11/14/08 5:00am
As advanced registration comes to an end this weekend, students are busy skimming the course booklet for classes that satisfy both their requirements and their curiosity.
For students in Penn's more pre-professional schools - Nursing, Engineering and Wharton - getting a liberal-arts education while following a more structured curriculum can present a challenge.
11/06/08 5:00am
For 32 Penn students, arguing is more than just something you do with your roommate or in philosophy recitation - it's a structured competition.
For those students, their affinity for arguing paid off last month at the Coast Guard Academy Mock Trial Tournament in New London, Conn.
11/04/08 5:00am
"It was an eye-opening experience," said Engineering junior Young Yim of his trip to do bioengineering in southern China this summer with the Engineering school's Global BioMedical Service Program.
Now in its third year, GBS takes a group of 12 students and a faculty member to work on medical problems in China each summer.
11/03/08 5:00am
Engineering students interested in research now have an opportunity to look beyond the classroom.
The Rachleff Scholars Program, established this fall by a gift from Penn trustee Andrew Rachleff, aims to create a "scholarly community" in the School of Engineering, said Electrical and Systems Engineering professor Jan Van der Spiegel, who is also the director of the program.
10/09/08 5:00am
College sophomore Francis Udler calls his plans for this weekend "ridiculous."
"I'm going to have to study during fall break," Udler said.
10/06/08 5:00am
That 9 a.m. math class just got a little better.
Three lecture halls in the David Rittenhouse Laboratory will be renovated next summer.
Rooms A1, A2 and A4 will be renovated in time for the fall semester. While A1 will become a 240-seat classroom, the capacity of A2 and A4 will be increased to 80 seats each.
09/30/08 5:00am
With research becoming a vital part of the undergraduate experience at Penn, the Nursing school has devised a way to allow its student researchers to showcase their work through a research journal dedicated to them.
The Journal of Nursing Student Research is a publication that compiles the research of students and gives them a platform to receive recognition for their work.
09/30/08 5:00am
As the word spread that Stephen Lynch would be performing on campus this semester, many students raised questions regarding his "offensive" and "sensitive" jokes.
SPEC announced yesterday that Lynch would be performing at their annual fall show on Oct. 17 at Irvine Auditorium.
09/22/08 5:00am
Behind the Quad, in an area many students never explore, some of the nation's best research is being conducted.
Penn's Nursing School, consistently ranked among the top in its field, is home to five of the National Institute of Nursing Research's 10 "Landmark Nursing Research Studies.
09/19/08 5:00am
From his "straightforward rhetoric" to his "piercing blue eyes," Anderson Cooper is giving the students who know him plenty of reasons to get excited about his upcoming speech.
CNN's Cooper, host of the nightly newsmagazine Anderson Cooper 360ø and the Social Planning and Event Committee's fall speaker, will appear at Irvine Auditorium on Oct.
09/03/08 5:00am
Freshmen are quickly learning the joys of free food and merchandise during NSO. Upperclassmen can now take part by grabbing a free notebook around campus.
All By Students, a student-run notebook company founded in Chicago, will be partnering with Penn Student AProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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05/16/08 5:00am
Graduate students spent a day celebrating springtime their way during GradFest '08 earlier this month.
The second-annual spring carnival for graduate students, organized by the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly in association with the Graduate Student Center, drew a crowd of more than 1,000 graduate students and their families.
05/02/08 5:00am
Hillary Clinton isn't the only one who wants to make sure everyone is insured.
SASgov, the School of Arts and Sciences branch of graduate student government, hosted an essay competition in which participants wrote a 125-word essay to answer the question, "Why do I need dental insurance?" The winners won $250, allowing them to purchase insurance.
