Penn made a significant leap in research expenditure from 2015 to 2016, jumping from being 17th in the country to being third in the nation. 

Students and alumni alike have taken action through founding a committee to bring together students and administrations and through drafting of a petition with hundreds of signatures.

Rivell worked for four years at Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science and was working towards obtaining a graduate degree in computer science at Penn too.

Penn has made a series of major announcements to do with high-level administrative personnel this semester. Penn Dental is only one of three schools that will welcome new deans in August.  

Penn Undergraduates for Refugee Empowerment organized the event with Bruneau to talk about ways to reduce anti-refugee hostility.

Following the March for Our Lives protest, Penn professor Jonathan Zimmerman published an op-ed arguing that 16- and 17-year-olds should be given the ability to vote. 

Penn Bioengineering professor Konrad Kording helped develop a new algorithm that compares images across journal articles to uncover fraudulent scientists who have used other researchers' images.

ASL advocate and performer Wink Smith, Jr. emceed the event, while interpreters made the stories accessible for both hearing and non-hearing attendees.  

The incumbent in the third district is Rep. Dwight Evans (D-Philadephia), who is running against two newcomers: Democrat Kevin Johnson and Republican Bryan Leib.

Penn and Columbia are the only two Ivies that do not have PILOT agreements, through which nonprofits make payments to local governments in lieu of any property tax. 

Other peer universities will see similar price boosts to Penn for the next academic year, all within a three to four percent increase. 

The School of Social Policy and Practice has hosted the event every year in order to celebrate both National Social Work Month and Women’s Month. 

As a nonprofit, Penn is exempt from paying property taxes under the tax code even though it is the largest private employer in the city. 

This increase in Pennsylvania follows a nationwide trend of organic food sales, reported by a USA Today analysis of data from the Organic Trade Association.

Following a racially-charged incident at Phi Gamma Delta, the Interfraternity Council planned on adding a diversity chair position to its executive board, as the Panhellenic Council did just earlier.

The drop from last year's acceptance rate — which broke previous record-low of 9.15 percent for the Class of 2021 — is also the most drastic decrease in recent years

Bernard J. Costello graduated from the School of Dental Medicine in 1997 and later went on to complete his residency in Oral and Maxillofacial surgery at Penn.