Endowment rises to $5.3B over fiscal year
The University's endowment ballooned 21.6 percent to $5.3 billion in the past fiscal year, making Penn's rate of endowment growth the highest in the Ivy League, a recent higher-education survey revealed.
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The University's endowment ballooned 21.6 percent to $5.3 billion in the past fiscal year, making Penn's rate of endowment growth the highest in the Ivy League, a recent higher-education survey revealed.
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When administrators say the future of academic departments is full of blurs, it's not because their crystal balls are foggy.
After Penn failed to acquire Rhodes or Marshall scholarships this year, a new program aims to put students back on the fast track to some of academia's most prestigious awards.
Philippe Bourgois has spent time with homeless communities and drug abusers, but soon he will take on a different sort of challenge - Penn students.
In its 371-year history, Harvard University has been led by scientists, clergy, lawyers and literary scholars - but never by a woman.
It will likely be months before a new dean of the Wharton School is named, but Penn administrators are already gearing up for a search that experts say will be sweeping in scope.
Dec. 22
News of Penn Economics professor Rafael Robb's arrest for his wife's murder has thrust him under a spotlight both in Philadelphia and around the globe.
At a University where "global" has become an administrative buzzword, a globetrotting crime specialist will soon join the faculty.
Authorities arrested Penn Economics professor Rafael Robb yesterday afternoon in connection to the murder of his wife.
Penn Economics professor Rafael Robb has been named the prime suspect in the murder of his wife, Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor announced last week at a press conference.
Across from the Button sculpture on College Green, a simple white placard bears a somber message: "In Loving Memory of Lena Ali Hera. She died in Al Rashiddia on 7 Apr. 2003, age 5. Tank Attack."
Authorities issued a warrant this afternoon for the arrest of Penn Economics professor Rafael Robb, and the Associated Press reports that he is currently being held in jail without bail.
If the Association of American Medical Colleges gets its way, more minorities will soon be applying to medical schools.
The wife of a Penn professor was found murdered in her Main Line home late last week.
At 11:50 yesterday morning, Communication professor Joseph Turow's Mass Media and Society class broke into applause.
The Latino Coalition elected its new board last night, and increasing University Latino recruitment and matriculation rates are already high on its agenda.
Marissa Rhodes spends her days surrounded by books.
Chairmanship of the United Minorities Council is a tough gig - so tough, in fact, that this year leaders say there were no qualified candidates to fill the role.