2008 Woodie Awards
Vote Absentee
Last week, Judith Hodara, the Senior Associate Director of MBA Admissions at Wharton, and her outside consulting stints raised a few eyebrows - within the Penn administration and the wider admissions community.
Last Wednesday, Inside Higher Ed published an article that linked Hodara - along with two other senior admissions officials from Columbia University and the University of North Carolina - to the advisory board of AGOS Japan, a Tokyo-based consulting company that helps locals get into top United States MBA programs.
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A downtown performing arts venue is getting a public image boost from members of the Penn community.
Students and professors are teaming up with the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts this semester in an attempt to create a more vibrant and welcoming public space downtown.
The Grand Old Party might be able to celebrate a new nominee by tonight.
Twenty-one states will vote today for the Republican presidential nomination and pressure could not be greater with over half of all delegates at stake.
The Republican race has whittled down to four remaining candidates: John McCain, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul.
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He was featured in a documentary at the international Sundance Film Festival last month in Utah. Soon, his peers at Penn may be seeing him in theaters nationwide, even at next year's Academy Awards.
College freshman Yoni Gruskin might be a rising movie star - but not for his acting skills.
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It was Friday, and it was time to feel good.
Last week, outfitted with cushions and clementines, the Penn Women's Center kicked off Feel Good Fridays, a weekly program featuring free public workshops, with a seminar on nutrition led by local health counselor Jillian Bird.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his new supermodel wife have received a great deal of media attention in the past few months. However, yesterday in Huntsman Hall, it was Pierre Vimont, French ambassador to the U.S., who found himself in the spotlight.
As the number of general thefts in the Penn patrol zone continues to rise, the number of violent crimes has decreased in comparison to this time last year.
Crime totals in the area this January remained steady compared to the same month last year, with 60 crimes reported in both 2007 and 2008.
College Dean Dennis DeTurck often challenges math department colleagues to tell him when exactly he would need to know that 5/7 plus 3/5 equals 46/35.
"The answer is never, except in a specifically mathematical context," DeTurck said.
That's why he wants Americans to rethink how and when they teach fractions.
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During junior year, everyone wants to know where you're studying abroad.
But for around 75 percent of Penn's junior class each year, the answer is "nowhere."
Whether for obligations on campus or to stay on-track with coursework, a majority of students have legitimate reasons for remaining in Philadelphia all four years.
