In their study, researchers at Penn's Vet school, along with other collaborators, discovered a mitochondria defect in triple-negative breast cancer that could lead to the first ever targeted treatments for the cancer. 

Pritchett's experience stems from his term as president of the Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation and as chair of the Redevelopment Authority of Philadelphia.

This is not the first of Krasner's more progressive policy changes. With a background of a civil right's attorney, Krasner aligns himself with many of the causes furthered by former presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders.

It has been over a month since the 1963 College graduate Steve Wynn was accused of sexual misconduct, but the fallout from these allegations have continued. 

On Wednesday morning, director of the Wistar Institute Dario Altieri sent out an email saying he would walk out 'for personal reasons.' Over a hundred of his employees joined him. 

Over 1,000 of Central High School's 2,400 students walked out, as well as two-thirds of Lower Merion High School's student body of 1,300, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.  

The incident coincided with National School Walkout Day, when high school and university students from across the country showed support for stricter gun regulations in response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that left 17 dead last month.

Although Brown, Princeton, and Yale have reclassified economics as a STEM major, which helps international students work in the U.S. longer, Penn hasn't followed in their footsteps. 

Over 100 single-stall bathrooms in academic buildings meet the criteria set by LGBT Center Director Erin Cross to become gender-neutral bathrooms, Facilities and Real Estate Services and Cross determined last year.

In a 2015 editorial, three Penn bioethicists argued for the resurrection of the asylum in its 19th Century iteration, as a place for the mentally ill to get long term care in a safe environment. 

The Penn Wharton Budget Model became the latest target of Trump's ire when its economists found themselves in a back-and-forth with the White House over Trump's infrastructure plan. 

The 63-year-old doctor faces multiple counts of rape against a 45-year-old woman who had called a sexual-abuse hotline and reported that Cruciani assaulted her between the years 2005 and 2012.

Lehigh's Title IX Coordinator investigated the incident and the proposed charges. They were then found responsible for hazing and failure to report any violations. 

Researchers from from Penn, Columbia, UCLA, Rutgers, and the United States Forest Service collaborated to conduct the study using randomly selected vacant lots in Philadelphia. 

At Penn, Elizabeth Windram studied Operation & Information Management and Marketing, receiving an MBA from Wharton in 2009.

In December 2017, the group released a report which discovered that 20 of the 28 Penn trustees the group investigated held slaves and had ties to the slave trade.

The first of its kind since 1969, the teach-in will focus on "the production, dissemination, and use of knowledge."