The School District of Philadelphia announced on Tuesday that charter school applicants in West Philadelphia will be evaluated Dec. 11.

A synopsis of research released this week from Wharton to Penn Medicine.

Penn professor Gwendolyn Shaw gave a presentation on American art as part of the Lighbulb Café public lecture series. 

Susan Davidson  is one of the few women on the Engineering School’s faculty, which is around 13.5 percent female overall

Post-doctoral research fellow Robbert Havekes and his research team have found that cognitive impairments resulting from sleep deprivation may not be completely untreatable.

Penn Science Across Ages and Penn GRASP Lab, are teaming up to recruit Penn students to become RoboMentors to high school students around the city this spring.

We should be relying on universities to teach us not what to think, but how to think.

Among the Ivy League universities, Columbia University and Penn were the only schools without any Rhodes Scholarship recipients.

Furthermore, as college students, we’re consumers of a product. Penn’s tuition is $47,668 a year. If the average student takes five courses a semester, that’s $4,766.80 per class. We wouldn’t buy a $4,000 dress without trying it on, and we shouldn’t have to register for courses without testing them out.

College application does not end with clicking the submit button on the Common App. Alumni interview is another procedure most Penn applicants go through. “Students are pretty nervous about the interviews,” Laurie Weingarten, a Penn alumna and director of One-Stop College Counseling said.

The School of Nursing has 95 undergraduate advising faculty members.

Parents, students, policymakers and educators gathered at Philadelphia City Hall to address their concerns with district spending on non-mandatory and additional testing.

Shapiro, a Penn Law and College alum, spoke at Penn Law on Tuesday

The new director of the Office of Student Conduct wants to become the face of discipline at Penn.

Harrison College House will expand its Integrated Living Program to serve as an anchor for the house as the Freshman Experience program will be discontinued.

The first meeting between the Graduate School of Education and the School District of Philadelphia was held yesterday as part of the Shared Solutions research partnership announced in September. The mini-conference held at the School District headquarters brought together about 100 teachers, administrators and community members to discuss current strategies and possible improvements for the district’s school reform efforts.

Penn was in the news this week after a controversial video at a University conference re-emerged featuring MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber, who helped draft the Affordable Care Act, saying the law only passed because of the "stupidity of the American voter." The video, which was posted on Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics website, showed Gruber addressing an audience at a health economics conference in October 2013.