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Back to School Specials at Starr Restaurants
To celebrate the start of the school year some Starr Restaurants have added student specials to their menus. With student ID the specials range from […]
There’s No Reason Sex at Penn Shouldn’t Be Out in the Open
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Ivy League Sex Showdown. In this corner, author Nathan Harden, whose new book, Sex and God at Yale, takes […]
Penn and Big Pharma Team Up to Try to Beat the Hell Out of Cancer
Pharmaceutical giant Novartis has pledged $20 million to help Penn build the Center for Advanced Cellular Therapies where university scientists will look to compound the […]
Newsweek Reminds You That Classes Are Difficult at Penn
On Monday, Newsweek released its annual bundle of listicles that double as the college-selection Sparknotes for rising seniors at high schools everywhere. They take a […]
Beck’s Cajun Cafe Second Location Opens with Expanded Menu
Beck’s Cajun Café has officially opened its location in Amtrak’s 30th Street Station. Like the Reading Terminal Market location this Beck’s will offer Cajun and […]
Wharton Dropout Makes Physicists Rich
Yuri Milner—a 50-year-old Russian-born billionaire who dropped out of Wharton’s M.B.A. program in the early ’90s—has given nine physicists $3 million each for their contributions […]
Doc Magrogan’s New Location Opening Soon
This Friday, July 27th, Doc Magrogan’s Oyster House will be opening its newest location in University City to the public. The seafood joint will open its […]
Penn Prof Helps Struggling Philadelphia Students
While Philadelphia politicians, activists and researchers continue asking the same, tired questions about school reform, one bold professor has been asking a much simpler one: […]
There Is Not a Steve Jobs Inside All of Us
I remember the day I told my father I had chosen to major in sociology as an undergraduate at Temple University. He was paying for […]
UPenn’s New Incentive for Same-Sex Couples
Beginning July 1, the University of Pennsylvania will provide a tax offset program for same-sex couples who work for the university. The program offers as […]
BBC News Checks Out a Robot Built by Penn Researchers
In the latest episode of BBC World News Horizons, host Adam Shaw spent some time with the Philadelphia Fire Department to check out a robot […]
Penn and Temple Are Ranked the Two Most Dangerous Colleges
A new slideshow on Elite Daily lists Penn and Temple as the two most dangerous colleges to go to. The list features some daunting crime […]
Penn Ranks Third in Degrees Awarded to Fortune 500 CEOs
A recent list of the schools that have awarded the most degrees to Fortune 500 CEOs revealed that only Harvard and Stanford have done so […]
HughE Dillon: A Date With a Plate
The third “A Date With a Plate” took place last week at Pêche Sherman Mills in East Falls. The two-day event, which consists of a […]
HIV Trials at UPenn
The University of Pennsylvania is conducting clinical trials about HIV prevention in the next few months – and they’re looking for a few eligible participants […]