Vagelos Institute will inspire collaborative research efforts within the School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and across many areas of the University to find solutions to energy related problems. 

This summer, Brazil will be simultaneously hosting the Olympics and the Paralympics as well as trying to fight the rapidly evolving mosquito-borne epidemic.

Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney said city employees would be banned from traveling to states with anti-LGBT laws on official business.

UCLA has issued a campus lockdown. The LAPD said that the active shooter was in a UCLA building, Engineering IV, according to NPR.

This year, between 68 and 69 percent of students admitted to Penn's Class of 2020 committed to the school.

What was once intuited by student culture has now been proven by data — Penn undergraduates have bad sleeping habits.

Fattah announced the award of a $510,000 grant to the University of Pennsylvania for the study of algebraic geometry and physics.

The Committee for Diversity and Equity, which advises and reports to the University Council, recommended that the University establish a First Generation Office for students who are the first in their families to attend college.

Fattah and four close allies are on trial for being accused of misusing federal grants, campaign contributions and charitable donations to pay off Fattah’s debts and assist his political career.

In the past couple of months, Penn Health has been the object of three separate lawsuits.

In early May, the Class Board of 2019 compiled a list of the locations where rising sophomores will spend their summers.

Despite the University’s efforts to increase awareness of and access to mental health resources, some students felt that the pamphlets didn’t do enough.

A fraternity listserv email thread containing racial and homophobic slurs prompted a member to leave the organization at the end of the spring semester.

The new shipping center, which occupies half of the ground floor of 1920s Commons, officially opened its doors to the public last Wednesday.

Times Higher Education has ranked Penn 16th based on a world-wide university ranking system. 

According to Canvas at Penn’s blog post about the May 16th user interface update, everyone would “jump for joy over the new Canvas UI!” But to students, while a welcome change, the update was largely inconsequential.

During the three-and-a-half hour hearing in Norristown, Pennsylvania, Judge Elizabeth A. McHugh found enough evidence to continue with a criminal trial against the comedian.