2008 Woodie Awards
Most graduate students in Penn's nine Ph.D.-granting schools will pay lower tuition next year thanks to University-wide reforms that standardize fees in order to enhance academic flexibility and increase financial efficiency.
The new tuition is $24,000 per year for students in their first through fifth years and $3,000 per year for the sixth year and beyond.
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Can't use up all your meals? You're not alone.
Penn's meal plan system has long been a source of dissatisfaction among students, whose complaints range from the high price of plans to dining halls' limited hours of operation. And as the semester comes to a close, students are often left with dozens of unused meals.
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Just because the political circus has left Pennsylvania, the race for the Democratic primary isn't over - and for some students, the hard work is just beginning.
Whether it's traveling across the country as the remaining nine contests are decided or staying in Philadelphia to organize volunteers, several Penn students plan to spend their summers working with a presidential campaign.
Students aid African economies
'The Harambe Endeavor' heads to Africa to partner with local entrepreneurs
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"Harambe" - Swahili for "come together as one" - is the theme of a new organization working to implement technology and business proposals to further develop the economies of 10 sub-Saharan African countries.
The Harambe Endeavor - an alliance of 60 students studying at colleges and universities across the country, including Penn, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University - will create partnerships with students and future leaders in Africa.
'The Harambe Endeavor' heads to Africa to partner with local entrepreneurs
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Student hopes to make noise with new social-networking site
Wharton freshman will launch DormNoise, aimed at college students only, in June
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College students socialize 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and one Penn student wants to create a Web site to make interacting with peers even easier.
DormNoise.com - which will launch this June - is a college exclusive social-networking Web site created by Wharton freshman Jay Rodrigues.
Wharton freshman will launch DormNoise, aimed at college students only, in June
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The living room of the Kelly Writers House was packed yesterday with Penn students and Philadelphia residents alike to hear a reading by the poet Jerome Rothenberg.
Rothenberg, the author of over 70 books of poetry, is the last of three Kelly Writers House Fellows to visit Penn's campus this spring.
A goal of diversity, without litigation
Software program tries to help admissions officers avoid accusations of racial bias
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A new software program is on the market to try to help universities increase the diversity of their admitted classes while avoiding discrimination litigation.
The program, Applications Quest, sorts students whom admissions officers have already deemed as qualified for admission into clusters of similar applicants based on a number of factors, such as hometown, major, GPA, race and legacy status.
Software program tries to help admissions officers avoid accusations of racial bias
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With both skyrocketing theft on campus and economic troubles making local and national headlines, the relationship between the two has come into question.
As rates of property crime have been rising across the across the nation, some experts have pointed to a link between the state of the economy and crime.
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