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(03/16/16 6:06am)
In a landmark move, Drexel University President John Fry announced a 14-acre, $3.5 billion planned expansion that will make Drexel’s campus extend farther along the border of the Schuylkill River.
(03/03/16 10:56pm)
On the same day School Reform Commission of The School District of Philadelphia approved three of 12 charter school applications, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania passed a landmark ruling sharply curtailing the power of the SRC to limit charter schools' autonomy.
(03/04/16 11:00am)
The debate over what contributions Penn owes to Philadelphia took a turn this month as Penn released its annual economic impact report detailing a $14 billion contribution to the state in 2015.
(02/27/16 11:00am)
It has been a decade in the making, but soon West Philadelphia will be home to 20 units of affordable housing for artists and people in need.
(02/23/16 5:47am)
There have been 66 deaths along SEPTA’s train, trolley and subway lines since 2011. Forty of these deaths have been ruled as suicides.
(02/22/16 5:57am)
Latinos make up 20 percent of the population aged 18-44 but constitute only 4.1 percent of university professors nationwide. According to Penn’s Graduate School of Education, 3.5 percent of Penn’s faculty is Latino, compared to 9.48 percent of the student population.
(02/19/16 7:50am)
While many Penn students are getting ready for Thursday bar specials or BYOs, Penn for Hillary is busying making friendly calls to the people of Nevada asking for them to support Clinton in the caucus this Saturday, Feb. 20.
(02/11/16 3:45am)
Through an interactive "heat map," the Graduate School of Education now has a way of tracking Penn's involvement in Philadelphia's 247 public schools.
(02/04/16 5:51am)
When you walk into Claire Fagin Hall, you’ll see a large quote stating, “We are Penn Nursing Science and we care to change the world.” Nursing undergraduates are starting to change the world through “Community Champions," a program in which students promote healthy lifestyles in the Philadelphia community.
(02/01/16 5:26am)
The Penn Alexander School and Samuel Powel Elementary School were noted as among the top schools in the district according to the School District of Philadelphia's School Progress Report. The report measures the school district’s performance and charter schools for the academic year.
(01/29/16 1:08am)
While most Penn students were holed away studying, pledging or sleeping, more than 250 volunteers packed into vans on North Broad Street and drove around to count and find homeless people living in the city.
(01/26/16 4:47am)
As the national debate surges on whether state and local police should wear body cameras, SEPTA Transit has already put a plan in action. SEPTA police officers are now equipped with body cameras that will be turned on while responding to radio calls and during any interaction with people on patrol.
(01/23/16 11:00am)
On Jan. 4th, Mayor Jim Kenney signed a law that no longer allows Philadelphia law enforcement and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to cooperate, reverting Philadelphia back to a “sanctuary city.”
(01/19/16 6:08am)
Growing up in Tarkwa Breman, a region in western Ghana, 2015 College graduate Shadrack Frimpong noticed that many of his female peers, seen as second-class citizens in the community, would stop going to class. Frimpong had also witnessed many of his friends and family suffer from diseases such as HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis B. To receive treatment, the closest comprehensive medical clinic was 150 miles away.
(01/13/16 4:47am)
For many Penn students as well as for students at Temple University, Drexel University, Saint Joseph’s University and University of the Sciences, taking SEPTA to explore the City of Brotherly Love can become expensive. But the SEPTA Youth Advisory Council has a solution: a student discount program.
(12/03/15 5:35am)
This Wednesday, the Penn Women’s Center and Penn Abroad held an informational session to discuss helpful tips and advice about ways to avoid situations that could elicit sexual harassment or violence while studying abroad.
(11/10/15 3:58am)
The 2014 West African Ebola outbreak has killed more than 11,000 people, making it the deadliest outbreak of the virus in history — but researchers from the School of Veterinary Medicine have developed a means of stopping the spread of such a virus.
(10/14/15 3:56am)
A Penn program is helping female artists in Philadelphia speak up for each other.
(10/01/15 4:58am)
Penn’s Singh Center for Nanotechnology has been awarded a $5 million grant to establish the Mid-Atlantic Nanotechnology Hub for Research, Education & Innovation.