Court approves fee refunds to some Penn students following COVID-19 lawsuit settlement
A $4.5 million settlement will officially be distributed to some Penn students for online learning fees charged during the spring 2020 semester.
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A $4.5 million settlement will officially be distributed to some Penn students for online learning fees charged during the spring 2020 semester.
Gutmann College House held its official naming ceremony, with former Penn president Amy Gutmann returning for the second time since she became United States ambassador to Germany.
The University’s disciplinary proceedings against Penn Carey Law School professor Amy Wax, which began in January 2022, have involved complex faculty procedures. The procedures, which have been invoked by both Wax and Penn Carey Law Dean Theodore Ruger, are uncommonly used. However, they serve as the main way for the University to punish — and potentially fire — tenured faculty, whose employment is strongly protected.
Penn President Liz Magill announced that Annenberg School for Communication Dean John L. Jackson Jr. will be the University's next provost starting June 1.
The Perelman School of Medicine announced that it will no longer participate in the annual U.S. News and World Report “Best Medical Schools” rankings.
Penn received a record of more than 59,000 applications to the Class of 2027, around an 7% increase from last year.
After eliminating the $400 enrollment deposit, admissions administrators at Penn described the decision as part of an effort to ease new students' transition into the University.
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Penn is home to seven Cultural Resource Centers — Greenfield Intercultural Center, La Casa Latina: the Center for Hispanic Excellence, the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center (LGBT Center), Makuu: The Black Cultural Center, Pan-Asian American Community House, Penn Women’s Center, and the Spiritual and Religious Life Center — that aim to offer students from all backgrounds a support system and a community throughout the year.
Penn announced today that New College House West would be renamed Gutmann College House, in honor of eighth President Emerita Amy Gutmann.
The Wistar Institute, a health research organization with ties to Penn, announced the Bold Science // Global Impact Capital Campaign, a five-year plan that aims to raise $75 million for advancements in biomedical research, technology, and education of the next generation of innovators.
Tamara Greenfield King was named Interim Vice Provost of University Life on June 14 after Mamta Accapadi resigned from the position she had held since July 2020.
March for Our Lives, a student-led movement devoted to ending gun violence, rallied in Washington, D.C., on June 11 for the first time since 2018 to demand government action following recent nationwide mass shootings. The student-led movement was devoted to ending gun violence and founded after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fla.
Penn anthropologist Janet Monge has sued the university and other organizations for defamation, following accusations of mishandling the remains of the 1985 MOVE bombing victims.
Houston Hall and the Du Bois COVID-19 testing sites, Penn’s main testing centers on campus, permanently closed on May 23 after two years of operation.
Graduates of the Class of 2022 gathered for Penn’s 266th Commencement ceremony on Monday morning, the first Commencement to permit in-person family and guest attendance since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The annual Baccalaureate Ceremony, typically held the day before Commencement, will now be held at the beginning of senior week on May 10.
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine discovered a new approach to a type of immunotherapy that could significantly increase the accessibility of the cancer treatment by reducing the time it takes to process cancer-fighting cells.
The Wistar Institute announced on March 8 that it received a $10 million donation from Ellen and Ronald Caplan to go toward the institute's center for cancer research.
Penn announced on Monday it has received a record $125 million donation from Wharton graduate Leonard Lauder, which will be used to support a new tuition-free nursing program.