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Penn and CNN partner to keep presidential candidates honest
When Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed that Mexico doesn’t have a birthright citizenship policy, the fallacy didn’t get past FactCheck.org.
Online learning expands, thrives at Penn
This past Monday, Penn Law Professor Kermit Roosevelt welcomed online learners with a friendly email about his course, “Introduction to Key Constitutional Concepts and Supreme Court Cases.” Roosevelt is teaching a MOOC, or Massive Open
SP2 kicks off a conversation about the 2016 election with ‘Voices for Votes’
Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) is about to make its first mark in the conversation concerning the 2016 presidential election.
Q&A with Hoopes Wampler
His days start with a walk from his Center City home over the South Street Bridge, which directly leads to Penn’s University City campus. A short—mere minutes—stroll on Locust Walk leads to his office at E. Craig Sweeten Alumni House.
Constitution Day events celebrate America’s most sacred document
For Penn’s Office of Government and Community Affairs (OGCA), National Constitution Day—Thursday, Sept. 17—gives one more reason to get out the vote.
I CARE trainings help identify and aid students in distress or crisis
While chatting with a group of Penn Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) clinicians, one point was made clear: The more people trained through I CARE, the better.
Penn-powered internship teaches high schoolers healthy eating
The day’s heat felt sweltering, but it didn’t stop the gardening crew—or G-Squad—from getting weeds picked, plants watered, and “good food bags” packed for their West Philadelphia neighborhood customers.
I-Corps Puts Penn Startups In Drive
It’s a crash course in business skills, Peter Gebhard says, while summing up his experience so far with Innovation Corps, or I-Corps, an accelerator program supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
A Bash Between Friends
It wasn’t long ago that Maria Soltero-Rivera learned an important lesson: “Different is good.” “We’ve been working so hard doing this, and this little girl puts into a few simple words exactly what we’ve been trying to communicate to everyone,” Soltero-Rivera says. “You just learn so much from these kids.”
I-Corps gives engineers crash course in business
It’s a crash course in business skills, Peter Gebhard says, while summing up his experience so far with Innovation Corps, or I-Corps, an accelerator program supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF).