2008 Woodie Awards
The University's endowment ballooned 21.6 percent to $5.3 billion in the past fiscal year, making Penn's rate of endowment growth the highest in the Ivy League, a recent higher-education survey revealed.
University officials say this year's boost is the result of shrewd strategies in investment, fundraising and internal reallocation of funds from Penn's Health Systems to the endowment - a stockpile of funds reserved for costs like financial aid and research.
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Two men were waiting in the lobby when College juniors Albert Tsai and Julietta Change entered the building at the Chestnut Street entrance. One of the suspects asked if the students wanted to buy a PlayStation, Division of Public Safety spokeswoman Karima Zedan said.
Zoom in on the 'LOVE' statue. Double-click on Van Pelt.
Then build it all over again.
Google Earth - a computer mapping program through which users can view satellite images of Earth - recently launched a contest in which college students can design a virtual campus to match their own school's.
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Law student faces hearing for shooting
Judge to decide today if case will go to court; experts say Cho's mental state to be a factor
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Joseph Cho, the second-year Penn Law student who faces attempted murder charges, will find out today in a preliminary hearing if his case will move to trial.
Judge to decide today if case will go to court; experts say Cho's mental state to be a factor
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By joe vester
Staff Writer
jvester@sas.upenn.edu
You may think cell phones are just for talking, but they could soon be used for tackling crime as well.
On Jan. 23, the Philadelphia City Council paved the way for a system that will allow the public to send photographs from their cell phones to 911.
Penn president signs sustainability pledge
Penn President Amy Gutmann has signed the American College and University Climate Commitment in an effort to combat global warming, University officials announced on Monday.
As a result of this pledge, Penn will develop a far-reaching plan that will entail reducing campus greenhouse-gas emissions and countering emissions from other places.
The University has received a $2 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles, officials announced yesterday.
The grant will be used for studying the basic cell biology of Parkinson's disease.
The project involves an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Penn's Genomics Institute, including molecular biologist James Eberwine, computational scientist Junhyong Kim and imaging experts Philip Haydon and Jai-Yoon Sul.
Sayre asthma workshop looks to go big time
Student looks to take asthma program and expand health education at Sayre High
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One asthma workshop has quickly turned into the possibility of a larger project to improve health and well being at a West Philadelphia high school.
Last year, College juniors Amanda Rubenstein and Rachel Conrad co-founded the Active Asthma Workshop, which sends Penn students to Sayre High School at 58th and Walnut streets to promote awareness about asthma and general health and nutrition.
Student looks to take asthma program and expand health education at Sayre High
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Burglary
Jan. 29 - A staff member reported that several offices near 40th and Chestnut streets were forcibly entered and ransacked by an unknown suspect, and that one office had about $100 removed.
Theft
Feb. 4 - A student reported that, during a disturbance at Philly Diner, her purse - containing goods worth about $300 - was stolen by an unknown person at about 3:30 a.
Think about a time and place in which you feel the most comfortable. Now imagine being taken out of this comfort zone for four years. Don't like it? Well, unfortunately, that's how many African American students say they often feel at predominantly white colleges.
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Wharton sophomore Leonid Markel scratched his head and laughed at the Web site's mistake: Wikipedia.org had incorrectly listed President George Bush as the Republican Party's general chairman.
But it wouldn't have been so funny if that "fact" had ended up in a Political Science paper.
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Prof gets NEH grant for Chinese architecture
Nancy Steinhardt receives prestigious award for research
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For East Asian Languages and Civilizations professor Nancy Steinhardt, a Yuan Dynasty building is not simply wood and stone.
"It's a living scene that encompasses all aspects of life and class struggle in 13th-Century China," she says.
That passion for Chinese architecture gave the National Endowment for Humanities reason enough to give Steinhardt a $24,000 grant last month, one of only 288 grants awarded across the country.
Nancy Steinhardt receives prestigious award for research
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