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(07/06/17 12:50am)
The School of Veterinary Medicine, which for months appeared to be on the verge of losing millions in state funding, will almost certainly have its funding from Harrisburg remain in place, according to the latest updates from the state budget negotiations.
(06/30/17 2:58pm)
Penne Restaurant & Wine Bar, the Italian eatery known for its homemade pastas at the Inn at Penn, has closed after 15 years.
(06/21/17 12:58am)
The Philadelphia City Council’s Committee on Public Health and Human Services just passed a bill that will prohibit the practice of conversion therapy on LBGTQ minors in the city. Once the bill is placed into effect, mental health providers in Philly cannot try to change the gender orientation or sexual identity of clients below the age of 18.
(06/14/17 1:34am)
Access to the Class of 2021 Facebook group will be limited to just six New Student Orientation coordinators this year, a change from years past when Peers Helping Incoming New Students, or PHINS, had access to the page.
(06/06/17 2:08am)
Finding a place off campus to stay over the summer can be a hassle, but students working for Penn’s Residential and Hospitality Services never have to worry because their housing is already provided on campus.
(05/28/17 2:28am)
Microsoft Corporation co-founder Paul Allen and his sister, Jody Allen, have just awarded a $9.25 million five-year grant to Penn researchers to take on an “unconventional” approach to studying concussions and to hopefully uncover potential new treatments.
(05/22/17 4:52am)
Rising Engineering and Wharton sophomore Mason Mings sustained a traumatic brain injury after falling 25-30 feet from the second story of Ware College House on May 11.
(05/18/17 9:00pm)
When internship application season rolled around last fall, College junior David Thai found himself facing rejection after rejection. After speaking with friends who had already been hired for the summer, Thai realized that while he was waiting patiently to hear back, his friends had sent follow-up emails, reached out to alumni and asked people for references.
(04/24/17 1:03am)
College freshman Aula Ali's long-awaited plan to go back home to Sudan during the summer was ruined when President Trump introduced his first executive order on immigration in January.
(04/21/17 12:11am)
The annual Creating Canopy Tree Giveaway Program, which offers Penn’s faculty and staff a free tree to plant in their homes, will take place this year on May 4.
(04/18/17 6:20pm)
This year’s speaker for the Baccalaureate Ceremony will be a Penn faculty member: Angela Duckworth, the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology.
(04/18/17 3:07am)
When College freshman Sherry Tseng decided to take Computer and Information Science 110 this spring, she did not expect the popular introductory-level computer science course to curtail her interest in the subject altogether.
(04/12/17 1:01am)
Interest in coding and computer science is on the rise, and Penn’s Computer and Information Science Department is working to accommodate this newfound popularity.
(04/11/17 1:23am)
The signature film program at International House Philadelphia has been revamped with a new name.
(04/10/17 2:26am)
Yelp and Twitter may not be the most obvious places to gather information on health care and hospital management, but the director of Penn Medicine’s new Center for Digital Health, Raina Merchant, will do just that. The new center was founded to provide a connection between technology, social media and health care.
(05/03/17 12:57am)
Gabriel Otte, who was featured in Forbes' 30 under 30 this year for his work as CEO and co-founder of health technology startup Freenome, is facing scrutiny over his Penn degree — or lack thereof.
(04/06/17 12:16am)
A new Penn Medicine study reports that women who experience emotional trauma and stress during their teen years are “twice as likely” to suffer from depression in the years leading up to the onset of menopause.
(03/31/17 2:55am)
About 130 students gathered in the lobby of College Hall on Thursday for a mass sit-in at 6 p.m. in the hopes that the large crowd would make it difficult for administrators to issue citations, following an incident Wednesday night when 13 members of Fossil Free Penn were allegedly “written up” for refusing to leave the building after closing.
(03/23/17 1:38am)
A recent $1 million donation by 1970 College graduate David Pottruck is helping launch the new Penn Athletics Wharton Leadership Academy.
(03/21/17 7:07pm)
Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price asked graduate students to reconsider their efforts to unionize in an email sent to the graduate student community on Monday.