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(10/30/18 2:25am)
Five identical signs condemning Penn President Amy Gutmann for the University of Pennsylvania's avoidance of making Payments in Lieu of Taxes peppered the perimeter of High Rise Field on Monday afternoon.
(10/28/18 1:53am)
A shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue has left at least 11 dead, including Penn alumnus Jerry Rabinowitz. Several hours after the shooting, which occurred on Saturday morning, Penn President Amy Gutmann released a statement condemning the deadly attack and the wave of gun shootings that has taken place across the nation.
(10/21/18 10:33pm)
For the first time, one of the University of Pennsylvania's schools is requiring its students to be trained in administering Narcan — a medication that can mean the difference between life and death for those suffering from opiate-related overdoses.
(10/13/18 1:57pm)
A reported burglary occurred at the 4000 block of Walnut St. and prompted a UPenn alert at approximately 8:40 p.m. Friday. The suspect has since been apprehended.
(09/28/18 3:00am)
The University's endowment delivered a "phenomenal return" this year of 12.9 percent, Penn Vice President for Finance and Treasurer MaryFrances McCourt told Penn President Amy Gutmann and the rest of Board of Trustees at its meeting Thursday. This high return, McCourt said, is unique among peer institutions that have not experienced such growth.
(09/25/18 7:36pm)
A judge sentenced former Penn honorary degree holder Bill Cosby to three to 10 years in prison Tuesday, the second day of Cosby's sentencing hearing. Cosby, who was born and raised in Philadelphia, had his honorary degree from Penn revoked this February.
(09/19/18 1:20am)
Penn has launched a new pilot program to provide free transport to students suffering from medical emergencies. For now, it will consist of one sports utility vehicle manned by a Philadelphia Fire Department paramedic lieutenant and an emergency medical technician.
(09/19/18 1:59am)
Penn may soon have a centralized office responsible for handling sexual misconduct complaints across the University.
(09/11/18 1:02am)
For Penn students residing in Hamilton Court, the start of the school year was accompanied by a four-day period without hot water and ongoing maintainance issues.
(08/23/18 6:36pm)
The 21-year-old man charged with killing former Penn sophomore Blaze Bernstein was sexually "confused," his lawyer said on Wednesday.
(08/03/18 9:16pm)
The Orange County Sheriff's Department has added a hate crime charge to the allegations against the man accused of murdering former Penn sophomore Blaze Bernstein.
(07/30/18 2:28am)
Graduate student Kristina Krull, who was pursuing a master's degree in education, died at her home in New Hampshire. Krull had been a fellow in the Penn Graduate School of Education's Boarding School Teaching Residency program and a teaching fellow at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire.
(07/23/18 3:07am)
Former Psychology Professor Robert Kurzban has resigned from Penn as of early this month, according to an email from Psychology department chair Sharon Thompson-Schill. This came two months after allegations first emerged that Kurzban had multiple inappropriate relationships with students he had been directly overseeing, violating University policy.
(07/19/18 2:43am)
The Penn Newman Center, the pastoral center for Penn’s Catholic ministry, is moving to a different location for the first time since 1970.
(06/29/18 9:07pm)
Penn has announced a range of significant findings into the University's history with slavery. In a statement dated June 28, the University wrote that 75 of Penn's former trustees were slave owners, including Penn’s first Provost, William Smith. The University also paid a Penn professor for work done by an enslaved man whom he owned, and sent faculty members to raise money from slave-owning families.
(06/22/18 7:44pm)
Penn social work doctoral candidate Vance Patrick died while on extended leave. He was a practicing social worker in New Jersey, according to an emailed statement from Vice Provost for University Life spokesperson Monica Yant Kinney.
(06/09/18 1:48am)
The United States State Department is sending several government officials to Penn for testing after they suffered mysterious neurological symptoms at their posts in China, according to the New York Times.
(06/06/18 3:22am)
Five days after a note criticizing a shortage in women's restrooms in the David Rittenhouse Laboratories was spotted on the door of a men's restroom, the School of Arts and Sciences administrators found a temporary solution.
(06/05/18 1:26am)
Signs designating a second-floor David Rittenhouse Laboratories men's restroom as a women's restroom were torn down a few hours after they were put up on June 4, according to Schools of Arts and Sciences Vice Dean for Finance and Administration Matthew Lane.
(06/04/18 2:09am)
2017 College graduate Madison Pedrotty died in a fatal crash on May 31 in Tennessee. According to local Channel 11 News, Pedrotty was a passenger in a car that hydroplaned, hitting a tractor-trailer head on.