A letter addressed to the incoming Class of 2020 informed new students that the institution does not promote “trigger warnings" and will not cancel select speakers on the basis of popular opinion. 

The 2016 presidential election is dominating the news cycle, and for some students, it’s also going to dominate their classes.

Along with stories of personal loss, including Sandberg’s, the book will also include research conducted by Grant.

With hundreds and hundreds of courses across dozens of departments, choosing classes can be a challenge, and switching them once the year has started can be even harder.

Forbes' ninth annual list of the best colleges in the United States included a total of 660 public and private universities, liberal arts colleges and service academies. The top three spots went to Stanford, Williams and Princeton, respectively. 

On July 25th, the College Promise Campaign and Innovative Educators hosted a discussion focusing on free community college. The event started with a screening of No Greater Odds, a film about students’ experiences at the College of Southern Nevada.

Communication Professor David Eisenhower is teaching a class in the fall called Conventions, Campaigns and Debates, and the pre-requisite for the class is that students must attend either the Republican National Convention or the DNC. 

Virtually every large employer now uses automated applicant tracking software to filter through the mountains of resumes.

Clinical Psychologist at Penn’s Graduate School of Education Howard Stevenson argues that parents need to have the difficult conversations with their children about race and social justice.

Members of the military launched a coup attempt against the Turkish President Recep Tayyip on Friday, while rising College junior Leo Page-Blau was in his host family’s house, 20 minutes outside Ankara. 

Doctoral student in Africana Studies and Music, Courtney Brown, died at his home in Michigan last weekend after battling cancer.

The total cost of the materials and reagents needed for the device is only $2, making it potentially more accessible to the masses. However, the device must still undergo more tests before it is ready for patient use — and according to the researchers, it will not be available before the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Temple University’s board of trustees announced its intention to dismiss Temple’s president, Neil D.

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.