Distinguished political scientist Beth Simmons has been appointed the 18th Penn Integrates Knowledge professor, the University announced Tuesday.

This year’s President’s Innovation Prize recipients are joining the Pennovation Center, the University's Division of Facilities and Real Estate Services announced on June 28. 

While Locust Walk definitely feels less crowded during the summer months, the campus is still far from empty. Along with the many students and faculty who remain at Penn working or doing research, there are some students from other schools who are calling the school home for the summer.

Differential privacy is a set of statistical techniques that can produce information about a certain population without providing enough information for individuals within that population to be identified.

As a part of their American History studies, students will experience history and see the show for just $10. The students will attend special matinee performances and engage with the cast members.

The defamation claims stemmed from the debunked University of Virginia gang rape story written by 1994 College graduate Sabrina Erdely.

If the study is approved by the organization that will conduct it, Penn scientists involved in the trial will test the mechanisms behind CRISPR by removing immune cells from 18 select patients afflicted with melanoma, sarcoma, and myeloma.

Hunt’s study on sorority rush at Penn found that although the women who rush and ultimately join a sorority enjoy a boost in their senses of belonging and self-esteem, those who are unsuccessful experience negative effects.

For those who have trouble choosing between being a doctor or a lawyer, have no fear: You can now become both at Penn.

“Unless we shift course, superbugs will become a fact of life,” Emmanuel wrote in a Washington Post op-ed last month.

Abigail Fisher, a white woman who was denied admission to the school, brought the case against University of Texas at Austin in 2008.

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The National Science Foundation will award over $1.9 million in grants to two projects at the University of Pennsylvania and one at Drexel University, U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah announced on June 2.

Every great initiative begins with a good story. For the Mobile CPR Project, the story began three years ago in Radnor, PA.

"Adding scholarship recipients from these countries will add both ethnic and, hopefully, socioeconomic diversity to the Rhodes community and to Oxford."

José Arturo Bauermeister was appointed Penn's tenth Presidential Professor, President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price announced Tuesday.

The Critical Language Scholarship program is a government program that identifies languages of need and sponsors students to study these languages in foreign countries. A highly selective program, its scholars spend 8-10 weeks immersed in their host family’s language and culture.