One of the first assignments under anthropology course “Food and Fire” (ANTH148) is to make your own knife.

Administrators say the cognitive science major will not be affected.

Despite efforts from the University to normalize seeking help, many Penn students don’t like to ask for it — even when they’re testing to apply to graduate school.

LPS students often have already faced a difficult journey just to get to Penn, but financial aid policies and curriculum constraints often present additional challenges upon arrival.

The rule was part of the STEM Optional Practical Training program (OPT), and extends the period of time foreign students can stay in the country seven months longer than what was outlined in the last policy, which was passed in 2008.

For Penn students who aren’t satisfied with just one degree, submatriculation can offer the opportunity to earn two degrees in the span of only four or five years.

Penn professors are working towards building Kazakhstan's first world-class national research university.

Not many classes at Penn have honors alternatives; the ones that do include Chemistry 101 and 102, Finance 100 and 101, Math 114 and 240 and Physics 140 and 141.

Since 2007, RealArts@Penn through the Kelly Writer's House creates a means through which a student of any college can be connected with internships in the entertainment, journalism and publishing fields.

Mark Neuman, an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care at the Perelman School of Medicine, recently led a study about this rise in opioid prescriptions.

In ENVS 404, Speaking About Lead in West Philadelphia, students learn about the history and dangers of lead poisoning and use their knowledge to perform educational outreach in West Philadelphia.

Penn Integrates Knowledge professor Dorothy Roberts was recently honored as one of Harvard’s Women Inspiring Change for 2016.

Certain Penn professors agree that policies the United States government has undertaken to promote marriage may not adequately target the problems of poverty in the United States.

The graduate programs at the Wharton School and Penn Nursing both slipped in the 2017 U.S. News and World Report Graduate School rankings, but other graduate schools at Penn fared the same or better as last year.

Graduate students who take out loans at Penn shoulder a much larger average debt than undergraduates.

Frederick Steiner made headlines recently for announcing that Texas' campus carry laws contributed to his decision to leave the school.

Physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer called on American research universities to do more to support global health equity on Wednesday.