2008 Woodie Awards
While students gain knowledge and skills from their professors in the classroom, they rarely have the opportunity to interact with them in a social setting.
Last night, campus Greek organizations provided one such opportunity, hosting the second biannual Faculty Tea as part of Greek Week.
While most use text-messaging for practical purposes, one man is putting the medium to a newer and more creative use.
Paul Notzold, a graduate of Parsons School of Design and Technology in New York, spoke about the potential of mobile media yesterday at a packed Kelly Writers House.
The typical criteria for a business-school ranking include job placement, graduates' salaries and academic quality.
But the Aspen Institute Center for Business Education set out to judge schools on a less conventional set of standards.
The organization, which aims to create future business leaders who embrace social responsibilities, recently released its biannual "Beyond Grey Pinstripes" report.
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Looking Ahead | Reaching the sky, clogging the ground
Planning commission cites traffic congestion as serious problem for Cira Centre South
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City officials seem to be giving the yellow light to development along the Schuylkill.
Traffic congestion along and near the expressway is a major concern for the city, the Philadelphia Planning Commission said in a meeting last Tuesday in discussing the planned $400 million Cira Centre South development.
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Man killed, officer wounded in gunfight at 38th and Chestnut
Dozens of shots fired early this morning outside Koko Bongo nightclub
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A West Philadelphia man was killed and two people, including one police officer, were wounded early this morning in a gunfight outside of Koko Bongo nightclub, located just off the edge of campus.
Lamar Bembry, a 21-year-old resident of the 5400 block of Race Street, was shot and killed by police during the gun battle.
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The future of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya still hangs in the balance as the jury failed to reach a verdict yesterday.
Malinovskaya is charged with the murder of Temple University graduate student Irina Zlotnikov, the girlfriend of the accused's former boyfriend, Robert Bondar.
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Facebook. Or "le livre de visage." Or maybe "das Angesichtbuch."
Once the social-networking toy of American collegians, Facebook has since expanded globally. And with membership recently growing at astronomical rates in Europe and other parts of the world, users say the site has started to bridge a gap of oceanic proportions.
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Are National Basketball Association referees racially biased?
Business and Public Policy professor Justin Wolfers tried to answer this question in a lecture last night in Logan Hall.
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