Following one of the worst natural disasters in Japan’s history, Penn Abroad is asking students who have not begun their semester abroad in the country to return home.

Annenberg's Adam Levin is teaching in Kabul to lay the foundations for a media infrastructure in Afghanistan, despite facing life-threatening security concerns every day.

Penn President Amy Gutmann announced at a forum Wednesday that she and the Provost will release an action plan to increase faculty diversity by the end of this academic year.

UniLeaks announced its aim to expose “corruption and mismanagement” in United States colleges in an open letter to university presidents on Monday.

In the minds of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees, two University policies stand in the way of true equal rights.

While Penn president Amy Gutmann travels to often as part of her state-wide involvement and work on national commissions, she makes sure to put Penn first.

The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania is considering a policy of no longer hiring smokers, according to HUP spokeswoman Susan Phillips.

Penn's Board of Trustees met with Penn President Amy Gutmann last week to discuss the University's finances, academic policy and campus and neighborhood relations.

In Washington, D.C. on Feb. 17, Leslie Berlowitz — president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences — named Gutmann and Annenberg Public Policy Center director Kathleen Hall Jamieson to the academy’s new Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences.

After extensive consultation with University leaders, Eduardo Glandt will now keep his deanship until 2015.

This week, members from a group of high-performing schools in Kazakhstan are collaborating with Graduate School of Education faculty on a management program.

Although Penn professes a “commitment to diversity" on its website, its statistics on standing minority faculty may reflect a different reality.

The WEF — an annual event that hosts thousands of leaders who work in and out of the economic realm — consisted of numerous events and discussions on economic growth, financial systems, environmental sustainability, health and social development.

Currently, Penn employees in same-sex domestic partnerships pay an extra tax on health coverage — leveling out to around $1,000 per year — from which married faculty and staff are exempt.

Lori Doyle announced Wednesday afternoon that she will step down as Vice President for University Communications at the end of the month.

Penn professor John Katz died Friday, Nov. 26 of complications from renal failure. He was 72.

Last week, President Barack Obama ordered the Presidential Bioethics Commission, chaired by Penn President Amy Gutmann, to review protections for subjects in federally funded scientific studies.