Administration
Penn forms group to address new research tying its founding trustees to the slave trade
Students found that of the 28 founding University trustees they investigated (there were 126 in total), 20 held slaves between 1769 and 1800 and had financial ties to the slave trade.
Kelly Writers House and Perry World House join forces to bring journalists-in-crisis to Penn
During her week-long residence, Albats spoke at events both in KWH and in Perry World House and discussed her experience as a Russian opposition journalist.
Provost on new Wellness site: 'We expect it to change. We want the community to give us advice.'
This announcement comes amid a series of student deaths at Penn. In the past month alone, three Penn students have died, adding to the seven student deaths last year.
After five years, the Penn Bookstore is undergoing major renovations
The project, which began over winter break, will replace the escalators with newer models and will renovate the bathrooms, the elevator, and the cafe upstairs.
How Financial Services is responding to student criticism of the work-study program
SRFS plans to create a single website to consolidate all job postings and is working to raise and standardize salaries and plans to increase the number of jobs desirable to students.
How Asian American Studies at Penn stacks up against programs across the Ivy League
Penn's Asian American Studies Program, now left without a formal director, has long lobbied for funding, support, and more teaching space for courses.
An infected horse has prompted an 'equine quarantine' at Penn Vet's animal hospital
All elective equine and camelid appointments at the New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, have been cancelled until further notice by the regional state veterinarian, a Penn Vet press release stated.
Why Penn does not plan on instituting a 'winter session' during break any time soon
Despite the winter session's popularity at other institutions, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Paul Sniegowski said little support exists for the program among Penn faculty.
Philadelphia has been selected as one of 20 finalists to host Amazon's HQ2
Close to 240 cities submitted proposals in October last year applying to be the location of Amazon’s second headquarters. Philadelphia has now been selected as one of the top 20 finalists.
Rabbi Lord Sacks urged religious groups at Penn to come together to solve world problems
“Our common humanity takes precedence over our religious differences,” Sacks said at the Perry World House Tuesday.
Students have shared accounts of sexual harassment by Penn faculty in a public survey
A professor from the University of Illinois called on people nationwide to share their stories of sexual harassment within academia and higher education. Now, students at Penn are doing exactly that.
Marijuana policies nationwide are changing. Here's why Penn's are not.
According to Director for the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives Noelle Melartin, Penn's campus follows federal laws on marijuana in order to maintain federal funding.
How the Penn Wharton Budget Model became a player in the debate on the GOP tax bill
The Penn Wharton Budget Model's study has been cited numerous times in media organizations and has even been the subject of many news stories published in news publications.
MindCORE, Penn’s new interdisciplinary program, focuses on “integrative study of the mind”
The Center for Outreach, Research, and Education — the newest of Penn's neurological, behavioral, and intelligence-based research initiatives — is launching this January.
At Penn's annual MLK Day of Service, organizers stress the importance of public education in Phila.
“It really should not matter what your family means are or what you were born into, but that a good education should always be accessible,” an administrator from the School of Social Policy & Practice said.
Here's how Penn decides whether to suspend operations for bad weather
There is a minimum number of school days which all universities must meet, and that often influences the decision of whether or not to suspend operations.
The search begins for Penn's new vice provost and director of libraries
Carton Rogers will retire in June. He has worked in Penn Libraries since 1975, becoming the vice provost and director of libraries in 2004. In his role, he oversaw 18 separate University libraries.
Penn Medicine officially incorporated the Princeton HealthCare System
This is a marker of a greater shift toward incorporating small hospitals into larger health systems in order to provide more specialized and efficient care, experts say.
At a memorial service, friends gathered to honor the life of College freshman William Steinberg
Along with his parents and his two brothers, Steinberg was one of 10 American tourists who died in a plane crash while sightseeing in Costa Rica on Dec. 31.