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(02/28/19 11:09pm)
Penn's Board of Trustees approved a 3.9 percent increase in cost of attendance for the next academic year, bringing the total costs of tuition, fees, and room and board to $73,960 for the 2019-2020 academic year. This an increase from the $71,200 in the 2018-2019 academic year, which was the first time it cost more than $70,000 to attend Penn for one year.
(03/01/19 4:26am)
Penn announced plans to complete Tangen Hall, the first student entrepreneurship hub at Penn, by August 2020 at a Board of Trustees meeting Thursday.
(03/11/19 4:37am)
The Panhellenic Council will now require all sororities to have a wellness point person in each organization. The move is part of Panhel's recent initiatives to improve mental health awareness in sororities.
(02/25/19 6:35am)
In February 2018, Penn Hillel's Falk Dining Commons' workers celebrated Black History Month by cooking and offering students Southern cuisine. This year, however, the dining workers were told by the University that they could not do so anymore.
(02/25/19 3:35am)
More than a year since Student Registration and Financial Services said they would build a new database to consolidate all work-study jobs and increase work-study positions, SRFS has changed course after an internal investigation revealed that a large number of the positions were unfilled.
(02/25/19 2:10am)
The Office of Student Conduct could not identify from video footage the woman who allegedly made a racist remark in Huntsman Hall, but is still investigating whether the incident was a result of hazing, according to the student who was allegedly the target of repeated "build a wall" comments on Feb. 2.
(02/09/19 5:11am)
A woman allegedly shouted a racist remark at a Wharton freshman in Huntsman Hall on Feb. 2 while another woman filmed the incident on her cell phone. The freshman, who identifies as Mexican-American, said the woman repeatedly shouted "Build a wall."
(02/02/19 8:15pm)
Massive amounts of flooding inside the Penn Bookstore caused the store to close on Saturday afternoon.
(02/12/19 9:04am)
After years of low turnout among fraternity members at educational programs, Penn's Interfraternity Council will bar fraternity chapters from officially initiating new members until New Member Education requirements are fulfilled. The IFC also adjusted requirements and fine-tuned the sign-up process for its NME programs.
(01/22/19 1:06am)
Lambda Phi Epsilon, Penn's only Asian-interest fraternity, has been shut down indefinitely by the national headquarters after "significant evidence of hazing."
(01/18/19 7:39am)
A Penn Statistics syllabus singled out Asian students, instructing them to follow "Western convention" when writing their names, prompting backlash among students in the class and in the wider Asian community at Penn.
(12/10/18 3:55am)
Penn Law will launch a pilot program this spring to integrate sessions on attorney well-being into mandatory coursework, making it the first top-ranked law school in the country to do so.
(12/06/18 1:14am)
Nearly 90 percent of University of Pennsylvania students fill out course evaluations to express their frustration or gratitude toward professors at the end of the semester. While Penn Course Review obtains the data and makes it public to Penn students, student evaluations can also directly impact faculty members.
(11/21/18 10:36pm)
This week, representatives from 117 other universities, including Stanford, Princeton, and Harvard, congregated at Penn to discuss wellness and academic resilience.
(11/16/18 8:12pm)
Penn Medicine was named Healthcare’s Most Wired for the sixth straight year. The designation is meant to recognize hospitals and health systems for their work in using healthcare technology effectively to improve care for patients.
(10/31/18 3:57am)
2014 Penn graduate Josh Evans has co-founded Jove — the first-ever pair of real estate applications for on-demand property showings in Philadelphia. Jove, launched this year, functions in a similar way to Uber and instantly connects buyers with agents, creating a convenient and frictionless process.
(10/29/18 4:07am)
A team of researchers led by Perelman School of Medicine Cancer Biology professor Sandra Ryeom recently published a study on possible fertility preservation for male childhood cancer survivors in the Nature Communications journal.
(10/15/18 2:04am)
A lighter “floating” backpack has become a reality, thanks to Penn professor Lawrence Rome.