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(07/13/20 2:07am)
Penn Museum will remove the Morton Cranial Collection, a collection of about 1,000 crania with some belonging to enslaved individuals, from public view after students called for the crania to be repatriated.
(07/01/20 5:44am)
International students are struggling to decide whether to return to campus or not in the fall, weighing complications of global travel restrictions, visas, and increasing coronavirus cases in the United States.
(07/01/20 5:41am)
As universities across the nation address their role within America's history of racism, Penn’s four undergraduate schools are each implementing and building upon their own anti-racism initiatives.
(06/26/20 4:51am)
In the fight for racial justice and systematic reform, Penn students and graduates are finding themselves learning how to be effective allies to the Black Lives Matter movement.
(06/16/20 5:50am)
Calls to 'defund the police' are growing within the nationwide movement for racial justice and police reform.
(06/14/20 4:45am)
As worldwide protests continue to fill the streets of major cities over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes, bail funds across the nation have seen a huge influx in donations to support people arrested for protesting.
(06/02/20 3:51am)
Penn’s first undergraduate journal on the Middle East and North Africa is expected to release its first issue by the end of this summer.
(05/27/20 5:17am)
Many student groups ended the year with thousands of dollars in remaining Student Activities Council funding that they were unable to use during the spring semester, after on-campus activities were canceled due to the pandemic.
(08/18/20 7:12pm)
This is a developing story last updated at 2:45 p.m on Aug. 18. Please check back here for updates.
(04/28/20 4:40am)
Brown University President Christina Paxson wrote in an op-ed in The New York Times that universities must open in the fall to avoid a higher education crisis.
(04/22/20 9:06pm)
Carl June, an immunotherapy professor at the Perelman School of Medicine who revolutionized blood cancer treatment, is joining worldwide efforts to find medicines for COVID-19 after recovering from the virus himself.
(04/21/20 2:39am)
Penn President Amy Gutmann announced this year’s President’s Engagement Prize and President’s Innovation Prize winners last week, providing funding for four community engagement-focused projects.
(04/16/20 3:19am)
Both houses of the Pennsylvania state legislature have passed a bill to reopen businesses across the state after Governor Tom Wolf required all non-essential businesses to close to limit the spread of the coronavirus — but Wolf plans to veto the measure.
(04/03/20 3:09am)
During the coronavirus pandemic, journalists worldwide are playing crucial roles in conveying information to the public about the virus. But despite the importance of the media in educating the public, many reporters face online intimidation and threats of censorship in their everyday jobs.
(03/28/20 3:09am)
The Perelman School of Medicine at Penn has established a new center, the Center of Research on Coronaviruses and Other Emerging Pathogens, to expand research efforts and support the development of new therapies and vaccines.
(03/18/20 8:14pm)
Penn Law School ranked seventh in the U.S. News & World Report's 2021 ranking of law schools in the United States.
(03/04/20 1:49am)
A study led by Penn Medicine professor Christos Davatzikos found a second type of schizophrenia.
(02/25/20 1:30am)
Penn’s fourth annual OWN IT female empowerment summit was held on Saturday, bringing women leaders to University City to share their career experiences with Penn students.
(02/11/20 12:50am)
A study led by Penn Medicine professor Mitesh Patel found that patients are more likely to track their physical activity levels by using a smartphone, rather than a wearable device, Penn Medicine News reported.