This year’s President’s Innovation Prize recipients are joining the Pennovation Center, the University's Division of Facilities and Real Estate Services announced on June 28. 

The project, created by Professor and Chair of the Fine Arts Department Ken Lum, Urban Studies Professor Dr. Paul Farber and A. Will Brown, will feature several installations by world-renowned artists in ten pavilions across the city.

While Locust Walk definitely feels less crowded during the summer months, the campus is still far from empty. Along with the many students and faculty who remain at Penn working or doing research, there are some students from other schools who are calling the school home for the summer.

Differential privacy is a set of statistical techniques that can produce information about a certain population without providing enough information for individuals within that population to be identified.

Predicting yield is proving challenging as students’ application habits are changing. This past spring, nearby Pennsylvania State University was faced with an unexpectedly large incoming class. Nearly a third of admitted students accepted their offers by the decision deadline, up 30 percent from the year before.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 23 that President Obama can't prevent undocumented individuals from being deported in United States v. Texas and also upheld affirmative action in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin.

Graduate School of Education professor Joni Finney wrote in a June 22 article in the New York Times that college is becoming less accessible as time goes on, even for higher income brackets.   In recent research conducted at Penn and Vanderbilt, Finney compiled publicly available data on the costs of tuition at different kinds of colleges and universities throughout the United States.

As a part of their American History studies, students will experience history and see the show for just $10. The students will attend special matinee performances and engage with the cast members.

With the new Penn Wharton Budget Model, users will be able to test out a variety of public policies on national indicators.

It is almost as if some young voters have forgotten the 26th amendment exists.

Is the Republican Party becoming an ally?

The body of Engineering graduate student Qi He was found in Washington on Sunday, July 2, nearly a month after he went missing on June 5.

The Chronicle of Higher Education published its own account of Donald Trump’s time at Fordham University and Penn with an article titled “Trump: The College Years,” on Sunday, July 3.

Burglary June 17: An unaffiliated 19-year-old male reported around 12;00pm that upon arriving home, he found his door ajar and discovered that several personal items were missing from his property at 4033 Spruce Street. June 22: Suspect, an unaffiliated 27-year-old male was observed at around 3:45pm attempting to conceal a laptop computer near the 1700 block of Brill Street.

The defamation claims stemmed from the debunked University of Virginia gang rape story written by 1994 College graduate Sabrina Erdely.

If we, as a community, would wish for our incoming classes to be truly composed of the best students Penn can find, rather than the elite few who serve the University’s self-promotional needs, then we ought not to celebrate our yield rate.

If the study is approved by the organization that will conduct it, Penn scientists involved in the trial will test the mechanisms behind CRISPR by removing immune cells from 18 select patients afflicted with melanoma, sarcoma, and myeloma.