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Technology: Why These Penn Kids Dropped Out to Build a Social Networking App

November 3, 2014 0

Four University of Pennsylvania students took the year off to promote their mobile application. Michael Powell, Matt Wojcieszek, Adam Elkassas and Arjun Raj Jain all have taken the year off to launch their app, Down [continue reading…]

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Mantua: Five Places to Help Beat that Hangover

May 9, 2014 0

Mantua is seeing more and more Drexel and Penn students move into the neighborhood than ever. With college students starting to pack the West Philadelphia neighborhood, that usually means an increased number of college parties. College parties [continue reading…]

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Technically Philly: Penn and Temple Professors Weigh In on the State of MOOCs

January 24, 2014 0

MOOC has become a buzzword in higher education these days. Universities across the country are implementing Massive Open Online Courses and providing students, as well as the general public, with free education. But many questions [continue reading…]

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Technically Philly: Penn Students Create New Text Recognition Serivce

November 21, 2013 0

With the recent boom in smartphones, people are now able to search the web and find information in a matter of moments. With the creation of their app PicClick, University of Pennsylvania graduate students James Hui [continue reading…]

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