Penn endowment receives 'D' grade in passing human rights standards, report finds
Amnesty International accused Penn of failing to adequately screen its investments in venture capital for their potential to contribute toward human rights abuses.
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Amnesty International accused Penn of failing to adequately screen its investments in venture capital for their potential to contribute toward human rights abuses.
2016 Annenberg School for Communication graduate and former Twitter executive Yoel Roth spoke at an event on campus on April 4.
Penn recently ranked first in licensing revenue among a survey of 153 United States research institutions.
Penn Against The Occupation hosted a speaker event on March 23 featuring writers and critics of Israel's occupation of Palestine.
The Housing Initiative at Penn will receive over $600,000 from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development to study the effects of the Emergency Rental Assistance Program on eviction rates.
Beginning this fall, 11 of the 2022 Forbes top 20 United States universities — including Penn — will be led by a woman or person of color, according to a new Forbes article.
Penn ranked fourth among United States universities for research and development spending in the fiscal year of 2021, according to data released by the National Science Foundation last year.
The University of Pennsylvania Penn Carey Law School will not submit data for the U.S. News & World Report rankings next year, joining a flurry of other top law schools who recently made the same decision.
Former United States President and 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump announced his third presidential campaign on Tuesday.
Over 48,000 unionized workers, teaching assistants, and other employees in the University of California system went on strike on Monday to protest for higher wages and better working conditions.
The Wharton School placed in the top six in PitchBook's 2022 list of 100 universities that produce the most startup founders in all four of the list's categories — overall undergraduate, overall graduate, female founders undergraduate, and female founders graduate.
With a roster of 18 players heading into the 2022-23 season, the Penn women's basketball team features a variety of backgrounds, spanning seven states in the United States and four countries overall.
President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama will come to Philadelphia on Saturday, Nov. 5, ahead of the midterm elections on Nov. 8.
Every vote counts. This is a phrase you see everywhere during election season in America. In this participatory democracy, the phrase proves to be true. Every vote really does count. However, not every vote counts the same.
The William Penn Charter School announced that Karen Warren Coleman — who received her Doctor of Education from Penn in 2015 — will be its first female head of school.
I found out I was pregnant in a Starbucks bathroom, only a few weeks after starting my first year at Penn. I was 18, and I did everything to keep it a secret. Buying a test on campus risked fellow students seeing me, so I walked about 15 blocks downtown to the Rittenhouse CVS. After that, I headed into the Starbucks across the street, where I remained, hyperventilating, until my tears subsided enough to be able to walk outside again.
As monkeypox cases rise globally, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health has received an additional 1,020 doses of the JYNNEOS monkeypox vaccine.
Insomnia Cookies, the late-night bakery started by 2004 College graduate Seth Berkowitz at Penn in 2003, announced in June that they will open an experimental headquarters in Center City.
On June 12, rising Wharton sophomore Ryan Torres completed a rigorous 29-day solo biking trip from Jacksonville, Fla., to San Diego, Calif., spanning over 2,500 miles.
I’ve had my fair share of moving. The fact is, I have never stayed in one school for more than three years. I went to four different elementary schools. I spent my first semester of high school in China, but then suddenly decided to finish the rest of my high school career in the United States. I traveled to the U.S. all by myself at 14, starting my first day of school just hours after a 16-hour flight to a foreign place I’d never visited. At 18, I moved to California to attend UCLA. But perhaps the most unexpected move was transferring to Penn at the age of 20.