With the outgoing executive board consisting of three men and four women, incoming and outgoing board members said they are excited to see women holding all positions on the seven-person board.  

After surviving cancer herself, Abramson and her husband donated $100 million to establish the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at Penn Medicine.

Temple University, Penn State University, and Rutgers University have recommended a tuition freeze for the next academic year to their respective Boards of Trustees.

The Wistar Institute's vaccine is the second COVID-19 vaccine to move into clinical testing in the U.S.

University administration said they have no plans to amend the current leave of absence policy for the fall semester. 

Brown University President Christina Paxson wrote that universities remaining closed would lose tuition revenue, which is a primary source of income for higher education institutions.

The group hopes to diversify what it feels is a dominant pre-professional atmosphere on campus by fostering electoral engagement and progressive activism. 

Penn President Amy Gutmann wrote in an email to the Penn community on Monday that the University has established a Recovery Planning Group to determine when students will be able to return to campus. 

Coronavirus has hit industries ranging from entertainment to retail to academia, leaving students scrambling to navigate an unpredictable job market. 

College juniors Annah Chollet and Camilo Duran are among 62 winners selected from a pool of 773 candidates nationwide.

Over a month after lockdown, West Philadelphia businesses struggle to receive loans and grants – and even they manage to do so, it is often not enough.

Lockdown Letters, founded by six Penn undergraduates and one Cornell student, is an initiative encouraging people to write customized letters of appreciation to healthcare workers. 

Work-study students will receive $3,000 for either six-week summer session or $6,000 for both summer sessions. 

Here’s how all eight Ivy League universities are using — or not using — their CARES funding.

Although Wharton currently offers a finance major to MBA students, new courses have been created specifically for the quantitative finance major, including classes in data science, asset pricing, and financial engineering.

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf ordered many construction projects and “nonessential” businesses to immediately shut down, but NCHW construction has been approved to proceed in order to stabilize and weather-proof the site.

Shakira took to Instagram and Twitter on Thursday to share a photo of her certificate of completion for a course taught by Philosophy professor and undergraduate chair Susan Sauvé Meyer.