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Penn Study: Men, Women Have Different Brains
E! Science News reports on a Penn study showing that men and women’s brains are wired differently, giving fresh material to a million subpar “women […]
Penn Conference Proves Government Officials Have More Privacy in Public Than the Public Has in Private
Phawker’s Dustin Slaughter has a great piece today about how he tried to go to Penn’s conference about government spying and transparency, “On the Very […]
Penn Students Gotta Dance, Dance, Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjqfGe_80Ck We did not know this until today, but apparently the Penn campus is a dusty Oklahoma town ruled by religious fundamentalists who can’t stand […]
Family Donates $3 Million to Penn Med School
Philadelphia Business Journal reports that four Colorado brothers who graduated from Penn’s Perelemen School of Medicine have joined forces to donate $3 million to the […]
Penn Launches Its Own Version of Craigslist
Hey Penn students, want another excuse never to leave University City? Ta-da!
Penn Students Can Now Pay Money Not to Go to Class
Sometimes I worry that the best minds of my generation are hell-bent on spending the rest of their lives creating start-ups with little-to-no discernible societal […]
Malcolm Gladwell’s Big Idea on Higher Ed Reform: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
In his 4:30 p.m. talk Wednesday at Penn, celebrity journalist and author Malcolm Gladwell steered clear of making controversial comments about the university — at least […]
Malcolm Gladwell Returns to Penn, Won’t Be Hanging With Football Team
Less than a year after he made waves by urging Penn students to boycott the university’s football team and the “violent, stupid game” itself, author […]
Penn Receives Alcohol Education Grant
The Daily Pennsylvanian reports: Penn’s”Division of Public Safety and the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives received a $25,000 grant to fund alcohol […]
Pennsylvania Attracting Foreign Students
The Inquirer reports that Penn and Penn State are hotbeds for foreign students. “Pennsylvania was sixth in the country in international student enrollment with 37,280, […]
Report: Penn Athletics Really Suck
In what will come either as deeply embarrassing or ironically refreshing news, it turns out Penn athletics are the shame of the Ivy League.
Morning Headlines: No, Singer Deniece Williams Does Not Own a Plastic-Wrapped Mansion in Cherry Hill, NJ
Denise Williams had everyone fooled. The owner of an unfinished mansion that’s now wrapped in plastic and surrounded by a metal fence told pretty much […]
Penn Students Designing Next Generation of Our Ice-Skating Robot Overlords
The Daily Pennsylvanian reports on RHex, a robot that Penn researchers are teaching to ice skate:
Former Penn Hoopster Gets Prison for Financial Fraud
The Daily Pennsylvanian reports: “Former Penn basketball player Tyrone Gilliams was sentenced Thursday in New York by a federal judge to 10 years in prison […]
Blacked-Out Penn Students Are Truly Terrible
34th Street Magazine has a good piece out about the pervasiveness of Penn’s black-out binge-drinkers and the EMTs who babysit them.