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(05/29/20 8:29pm)
When I first joined The Daily Pennsylvanian in the fall of my first year, I despised speaking on the phone. I learned English as a second language in elementary school and retained a deep fear of being misunderstood. In middle school, I placed calls to a local high school assistant principal to fundraise for a club. The principal never called me back. He eventually told my club leader that he couldn’t understand me in the voicemail. After the incident, I begged my parents to make all doctor and dentist appointments for me. I stopped calling anyone important.
(11/25/19 4:20am)
Penn will create a committee of faculty members to address climate change and sustainability, Penn Faculty Senate Chair Steven Kimbrough said.
(11/18/19 9:56pm)
The School of Engineering and Applied Science received a record $25 million donation to fund a new data science building.
(11/18/19 8:28pm)
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School will change its short-form name back to "Penn Law" from "Carey Law" after widespread backlash from the law school community. In the fall of 2022, the shortened name will become "Penn Carey Law," Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger announced Monday.
More than 3,000 law students and alumni signed a petition demanding the school change its short-form name back to "Penn Law," arguing employers would not recognize the new name and that "Carey Law" is not as prestigious as "Penn Law."
(11/14/19 4:40am)
Last week, Penn argued in court documents that transgender individuals are not protected from workplace discrimination under a federal act. Now, Penn is retracting its argument, saying Penn does not tolerate discrimination.
(11/12/19 7:21pm)
A new Health and Wellness unit will be created under the Office of the Provost and will include SHS and CAPS. Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett announced the decision in a University-wide email Tuesday.
(11/08/19 5:43pm)
The University is renaming Penn Law School the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School after a $125 million donation by the W. P. Carey Foundation — the largest donation to any law school.
(10/22/19 9:10pm)
An indecent assault occurred on the 4100 block of Pine Street, prompting a UPennAlert Tuesday evening.
(10/14/19 5:50am)
On Christmas Eve in the 1990s, Gregg Semenza and his colleague Josef Prchal hunched over a manuscript, debating with each other on the phone. Semenza was in Baltimore and Prchal was in Birmingham, Ala. The two had been working late in their labs making final edits to the research paper they hoped to resubmit to a journal. He and Semenza “[changed] the manuscript 50 times," Prchal said, but the two scientists were not yet satisfied.
(10/08/19 3:49am)
Penn's Counseling and Psychological Services rolled out a new program this week that brings brief counseling sessions to students. The initiative, called "Let's Talk," first began at Cornell under the direction of former CAPS Executive Director Gregory Eells, who died by suicide on Sept. 9.
(10/07/19 6:15pm)
Penn graduate Gregg Semenza was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine today for his research on how oxygen availability affects cells.
(11/04/19 4:24am)
In his early thirties, Giang Nguyen was back in a classroom, taking notes from professors' lectures. Nguyen was studying for his fourth degree — a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at Penn. He had just graduated from a three-year medical residency program at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, during which he worked up to 120 hours a week and drove from his home to the hospital at 4:30 a.m. when few cars crept through the streets.
(09/24/19 2:52am)
A water main break near Fresh Grocer caused flooding on 40th and Walnut streets Monday evening.
(09/10/19 7:46pm)
Penn's Counseling and Psychological Services canceled some regular appointments and are directing students to Student Health Service for care Tuesday until 7 p.m.
(09/09/19 6:38pm)
Gregory Eells, the executive director of Counseling and Psychological Services, died early Monday morning in Philadelphia.
(09/05/19 1:15am)
The director of Penn's Insitute for Contemporary Art, Amy Sadao, has stepped down after seven years in her position.
(08/30/19 5:29am)
Penn Graduate School of Education professor Marybeth Gasman has been accused of fostering a racially insensitive and sexually inappropriate climate in her workplace on campus.
(08/01/19 3:39pm)
Shots were fired in an attempted armed robbery at PNC Bank on 3535 Market Street, prompting a UPenn Alert.
(07/14/19 4:43am)
Seven people were injured in a shooting at a West Philadelphia playground on Saturday night. Gunshots erupted at a cookout and basketball game near 54th and Lansdowne Avenue at approximately 9 p.m.
(04/29/19 4:03am)
As part of the Penn & Slavery project, students presented on Penn's historical ties to slavery and the propagation of racist ideology by Penn alumni to faculty, students, and local Philadelphia residents on Friday.
