The report outlined six key objectives that it recommends the University work toward in the next five years.

In-depth consultations help to address any problems the families may have regarding medication, diagnosis, coordinating treatment and issues pertaining to the transition to adulthood.

A new course taught by the director of the Center for Technology Transfer Fellows Program aims to help students create and develop their own startup.

After Coursera partnered with a Chinese internet company in October, Penn professors are concerned with potential censorship of their courses.

Despite national changes in medical school applications, the Perelman School of Medicine has kept its numbers relatively stable.

Research at the University has seen a rise in commercialization — meaning that it is monetized through business ventures like start-up companies and licensing agreements with corporations.

Student nurses in their junior year are encouraged to look for externship programs that allow them to work in hospital units and get hands on experience.

In President Gutmann’s annual “state of the university” address, she discussed projects that include greater financial aid for graduate and international school students, increased public policy work and a “Pennovation Center” for start-ups.

Researchers in disciplines from religious studies to nursing are studying the cultural significance of ghosts.

Last weekend, Penn Admissions hosted the first Ivy in Your Backyard event, which helped more than 150 high school seniors with the college application process.

Penn has many ties with the Chinese university. In March 2010, Penn entered a memorandum of understanding with Peking University, and many of Penn’s schools work closely with the Chinese university.

On Saturday, Penn’s National Society of Black Engineers chapter “walked for education” in an effort to increase the number of black engineers who graduate from four-year institutions.

Some professors say that Penn’s four upcoming dean appointments could be a defining part of President Gutmann’s legacy.

Klein taught at Penn from 1958 to 1991 and was awarded a Nobel Prize in economics in 1980 for his work on econometric models.

Some attribute this change in job shifts to cuts in research funding and monetary benefits of the private sector.

On Friday evening, Columbia University professor Farah Jasmine Griffin celebrated the one-year anniversary of Penn’s Department of Africana Studies as the keynote speaker at the conference “Future of the Field.”

Y-Prize, a Wharton-Engineering competition, is now accepting applications from around the world due to its partnership with Marblar, an online crowdsourcing platform.