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(03/26/20 11:24pm)
Penn admitted 3,404 out of 42,205 applicants for the Class of 2024. At 8.07%, this year's acceptance rate is slightly higher than last year's, marking the first acceptance rate increase in five years.
(03/27/20 12:06am)
On Monday, the Perelman School of Medicine announced Daniel Yoshor will serve as the new chair of the Department of Neurosurgery in the Perelman School of Medicine.
(02/27/20 3:35am)
Erika James, who will become Wharton's first female and Black dean on July 1, hopes to continue to elevate the Wharton School's impact on the business world.
(02/26/20 5:11pm)
Erika James, dean of the Goizueta Business School at Emory University, will become the next dean of the Wharton School on July 1.
(02/24/20 1:04am)
Nurses are best known for the time we spend at the patient’s bedside. We laugh with patients during some of the most joyful times and hold their hands through some of the most challenging moments of life.
(02/13/20 4:38am)
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro filed a lawsuit on Monday against the e-cigarette maker Juul Labs. Shapiro claimed that the company has been improperly marketing their products to young people and misleading customers about the health risks associated with vaping.
(01/30/20 4:16am)
Students who planned to study abroad in China this semester will instead study at Penn due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé wrote in an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian.
(02/03/20 12:19am)
Food. Everyone needs it, much of our social life depends on it, and most cultures pride themselves on their take on it. Eating at Penn takes place in many areas, from a snack on Locust to a multi-course experience on South Street. But one of the most common places to find food is in one of Penn’s five dining halls. For the past ten years, Penn’s dining halls (and nearly all food outlets on campus) have been managed by Bon Appétit, a California company which manages over 1,000 “cafés” across the United States.
(01/28/20 7:03pm)
A Chinese exchange student suspected of having the coronavirus at William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia tested negative, 6ABC Action News reported earlier today.
(01/27/20 4:07am)
As cases of a deadly new strain of coronavirus increase in the United States and worldwide, the University has reported no cases of the virus at Penn or in Philadelphia but is currently monitoring the situation.
(12/17/19 12:52am)
Penn admitted 19.7% of early decision applicants to the Class of 2024 — breaking nearly a decade of declining ED acceptance rates.
(11/14/19 3:28am)
Penn received 6,088 early decision applications for the Class of 2024 — a more than 14% decline from last year's number of applications.
(11/07/19 5:48am)
Editor's Note: This article has been updated to reflect Penn Admissions' decision to reach out to students directly rather than publicly make an announcement.
(10/31/19 1:31am)
Penn’s Collegium Institute kicked off a conference on the philosophy of finance Tuesday night with a panel discussion on the future of economic and political systems.
(10/28/19 2:16am)
Penn was ranked the 11th best university in the world by Times Higher Education, which publishes an annual report of the best global universities.
(09/30/19 12:08am)
In just over a week from now, we will reach the one-year anniversary of the publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's landmark special report on "Global Warming of 1.5 ℃." Comprising the findings of 6,000 scientific studies, the report’s central exhortation is that humanity must do everything in its power to limit atmospheric warming to 1.5℃ — requiring, the report reads, global mobilization at a scale that has “no historic precedent.”
(09/25/19 11:24pm)
Penn Museum is hosting an interactive pop-up art installation this week to commemorate over 3,000 migrant lives lost at the border between Arizona and Mexico.
(09/21/19 4:23pm)
A range of speakers gathered at the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy this Friday to discuss why inequality is not an issue of skewed wealth distribution alone.
(09/16/19 4:31am)
Philip Esformes, the parent who bribed a former basketball coach to help ensure his son's admission to Penn, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for a $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme.
(09/02/19 11:25pm)
For most international students at Penn, summer brings a long-awaited opportunity to travel home and reconnect with family and friends. For fewer, returning home means resuming a position on a senior national team.