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One day after School of Arts and Sciences Dean Steven J. Fluharty announced that school-funded Ph.D. admissions would be canceled for the 2021-2022 academic year, the Chemistry Department posted on its website that it will continue to accept new Ph.D. students.
Annenberg School for Communication professor Carlin Romano will keep his seat on the board of the National Books Critics Circle after narrowly surviving a vote to remove him.
One of the main figures in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial will serve as a visiting fellow at Penn’s Perry World House this academic year.
Shots fired at 4000 block of Chestnut Street prompted a Public Safety UPennAlert early Wednesday morning.
Romano came under fire in July for disagreeing with part of the National Book Critics Circle’s statement in support of Black Lives Matter. (Photo by Larry D. Moore | CC BY-SA 3.0)
After a 3-4 record in Ivy League play last season, Penn football would have looked to players like senior quarterback Ryan Glover and junior wide receiver Ryan Cragun for success this year.
The world of college sports has been tipped on its head.
Hundreds gathered in front of City Hall on Friday evening to protest police brutality and racial injustice after a police officer shot and paralyzed Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis.
Over 100 protesters, which included students and faculty from Penn and Drexel University, marched through University City on Sunday calling on both universities to defund and disband the Penn and Drexel Police Departments.
Ernest Owens was walking back from a Jimmy John's sandwich shop to his room in Du Bois College House, just a few hundred feet away. It was about 1 a.m. in the spring of 2012 when he was stopped by a Penn police officer on a bike, he said.
As ongoing calls to ban historically white Greek organizations sweep universities across the nation, some Penn students are calling for the abolition of campus greek organizations and advocating for the re-designation of on-campus fraternity houses as cultural spaces.
This week, 1968 Wharton graduate and President Donald Trump, along with his son, 2000 Wharton graduate Donald Trump Jr., continued their pattern of spreading misinformation on social media.
Over 100 Penn students and Philadelphia community members gathered outside the Penn Police Department headquarters on 4040 Chestnut Street shortly after 12 p.m. on Friday to protest Penn Police's alleged involvement in tear gassing protesters on 52nd Street on May 31.
Penn students enrolled in URBS 404: Philanthropy and the City this spring provided $55,000 in grant funding to Philadelphia nonprofits serving populations most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In recent weeks, many organizations have issued statements supporting the nationwide movement for racial justice, committing to promote internal diversity and inclusion. Among these organizations is the National Book Critics Circle, in which one Penn professor, who is a former NBCC president and longtime board member, is facing backlash for objecting to the ideas referenced in the organization's proposed statement written in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Today is the 244th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, arguably the most foundational event in American history. Just mere blocks away from our campus, the Founding Fathers of the United States codified the principles of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” into the establishing framework of our nation.
The average high school food fight scene in movies is pop culture royalty. We all love the triumphant moment a burger flies across the room. However, the spontaneous food fight at my high school didn’t quite play out the same. On the sidelines of the sandwich and milk throwing, I observed what was happening, without direct involvement or distraction. Within a few minutes, I noticed a swarm of police vehicles heading towards our school.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 15 that a federal civil rights law will protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people in the workplace, marking the first major decision on transgender rights and a milestone for the LGBT community.
Surrounded by broken windows and burning police cars amid a citywide Black Lives Matter protest, 2020 College graduate Eiman Eltigani said she felt like she was living through a scene in a movie.
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