Education, Business, & Law

While University of Pennsylvania student William Fry was studying abroad in Germany, he came across a common problem in software development.He had been freelancing in programming to earn extra money but found that a lot of the jobs he was doing were very redundant: developers have to rewrite the same code over and over again, and it still costs the client the same amount of money.

At the April 21 Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps’ Pass-in-Review ceremony at the University of Pennsylvania, President Amy Gutmann praised the NROTC students for “service to ot

Anna Drabek, a first-year master’s student in the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, has won a David L. Boren Fellowship, awarded annually to graduate students to fund study overseas.

The Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) is proud to announce the recipients of its 13th annual Urban Leadership Awards, which recognize leaders who are guiding cities toward a sustainable and vibrant future.

Ivan Kuznetsov, an M.D./Ph.D.

Masses of African-American men from around the country converged on Washington, D.C., in October of 1995 for the Million Man March. Speakers included Jesse Jackson, Rosa Parks, Dick Gregory, and Maya Angelou. Unable to afford the trip to the nation’s capital, 15-year-old Daniel Q. Gillion attended a protest event in Miami that coincided with the March, and was organized by local churches and chapters of the NAACP. Hundreds of similar demonstrations were held across the nation.

The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research at the University of Pennsylvania joined forces with Covenant House, an agency dedicated to helping homeless youth, and Loyola University’s Modern Slavery Research Project to conduct a

In the streets of Senegal, young boys beg for food and money, but two students from the University of Pennsylvania are working to address this issue through Project Y.V.E.T.A.,

On many farms in the Cuban countryside, yellow flowers bookend certain crops, placed in such a way to concentrate insects there rather than on the produce growing in the rows between. Equipment-toting oxen and tractors are equally common sights, and combined with a self-sustaining water system, minimize the need to transport fuel across great distances.

To address Russian cyberhacking during last year’s Presidential election, the proliferation of “fake news,” and the stepped-up use of “active measures” by the Russian government to influence U.S.