The Teachers Institute of Philadelphia brings together Penn faculty and public school teachers from West and Southwest Philadelphia to learn from each other and from Penn professors. 

Greg Scarlatoiu, executive director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, spoke on Tuesday at “The North Korean Conundrum,” hosted via the Korean Current Affairs Program.

With the closure of the Towne library on May 20, Engineering students have been struggling to find study space within the Engineering quad.

An Annenberg Public Policy Center study released Monday morning, showed parents are becoming less sensitive to sex and violence in movies the more often they watch films of that nature.

The Penn Museum will fully open its Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials this semester.

Danielle Bassett, a physicist and Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation in the Department of Bioengineering, was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow on Wednesday.

Amy Gutmann puts her signature on more than just Penn paperwork.

Future career women at Penn, take a moment and see what you may encounter in the world of business.Jessica Kennedy, a former Legal Studies and Business Ethics researcher of Wharton, revealed in her study with two other researchers from UC Berkeley that women are lied to in negotiations more often than men.

The Law School announced the creation of a new certificate program, in Latin American and Latino studies.

Martin Asher, director of Research and Scholars Programs for Wharton undergraduates, will leave his position on August 22, 2014.

Medical Ethics and Health Policy professor Jennifer Prah Ruger and Law School professor Theodore Ruger teamed up with Boston University professor George Annas to write an article released in the New England Journal of Medicine. They discuss the controversial five to four Hobby Lobby decision and argue that drugs and devices critical to health should be universally available.

Boon Thau Loo co-founded Gencore Systems with former Penn students from his research group after six years of research on computer networks improvement.

Scott Kleinman, a 1994 College and Wharton graduate, donated $10 million to create the new Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. Launching this fall, the center will serve as a forum to unite researchers and stakeholders, facilitating the creation of real energy policy. It will also host visiting speakers, conferences and interdisciplinary classes.

In a recent study, two Wharton professors said that online learning and "Supertext" — the technology embedded in massive open online courses provides perks to the learning process but doubt it will displace the traditional classroom system. 

Penn faculty contributed to a British study that found that drinking less wine is more beneficial to cardiovascular health.

Teams at Penn and the University of California, Los Angeles will receive a total of $37.5 million to create memory-restoring neuroprosthetic devices.

Foundations of Art Design and Digital Culture, a class taught by Design professor David Comberg, recently finished up a summer session project in which each creation had to intervene in a public place.