College junior Adam Cohen was named a 2015 Truman Scholar, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation announced on Wednesday.

Effective July 1st, she will become the Presidential Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology at the Perelman School of Medicine.

If you are tired of flipping back and forth between Penn Course Review and Penn InTouch, three Penn students might have a solution.

On Tuesday, the Social Policy and Practice School, Annenberg, College, Nursing, Graduate School of Education and Law School deans gathered to discuss social issues relevant on campus and in Philadelphia. 

Penn's Critical Writing Program has the largest number of full-time instructors this year in its entire history.

Incoming freshmen aren’t the only ones who chose Penn — faculty members were drawn to the University for their own reasons.

Professor Grant Frame of Penn's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations recently received an National Endowment for the Humanities grant of $250,000 to continue his work with his project, Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period.

The protest was sparked by the announcement that the Africa Center will close and the African Studies department will merge with the Center for Africana Studies.

The donation will be used to establish the Price Lab for Digital Humanities, which aims to be this “hub” for humanities research that uses computer technology to aid students and faculty.

Sunday was the annual installment of TEDxPenn, which brought together 19 different entrepreneurs, scientists, musicians, artists and professors to give engaging talks and performances about everything from modern day “divination” to testing drugs on microchip simulations of human tissue.

Penn employs instructors including graduate students, lecturers and adjuncts that are not in the same category as tenure track-professors.

Tillet is frequently a contributor on the MSNBC show Melissa Harris Perry, where she talks about politics and racial issues.

According to the most recent data available, which is from 2001, GPA varies slightly by school.

Penn’s history major was ranked eighth-best in the country by College Factual in 2013, but some within the department are not so satisfied.

The incoming class will be expected to complete four online pre-orientation programs as part of a new project called Thrive at Penn, or TAP.

While undergraduates are busy biting hats on Hey Day, jumping in bouncy castles during Fling, or banding together to scream the night before the first economics midterm, graduate students live in a different world.

Parents of public school students can call the The School Discipline Advocacy Service which pairs law students from Penn, Temple and Drexel University to act as pro-bono advocates to help them wade through the disciplinary process in the school district.