Close to 240 cities submitted proposals in October last year applying to be the location of Amazon’s second headquarters. Philadelphia has now been selected as one of the top 20 finalists. 

“Our common humanity takes precedence over our religious differences,” Sacks said at the Perry World House Tuesday.

A professor from the University of Illinois called on people nationwide to share their stories of sexual harassment within academia and higher education. Now, students at Penn are doing exactly that. 

According to Director for the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives Noelle Melartin, Penn's campus follows federal laws on marijuana in order to maintain federal funding. 

The Penn Wharton Budget Model's study has been cited numerous times in media organizations and has even been the subject of many news stories published in news publications.

The Center for Outreach, Research, and Education — the newest of Penn's neurological, behavioral, and intelligence-based research initiatives — is launching this January.

“It really should not matter what your family means are or what you were born into, but that a good education should always be accessible,” an administrator from the School of Social Policy & Practice said. 

There is a minimum number of school days which all universities must meet, and that often influences the decision of whether or not to suspend operations.

Carton Rogers will retire in June. He has worked in Penn Libraries since 1975, becoming the vice provost and director of libraries in 2004. In his role, he oversaw 18 separate University libraries. 

This is a marker of a greater shift toward incorporating small hospitals into larger health systems in order to provide more specialized and efficient care, experts say.

Along with his parents and his two brothers, Steinberg was one of 10 American tourists who died in a plane crash while sightseeing in Costa Rica on Dec. 31. 

Matt Sessa, who has worked with federal and state financial aid programs for over two decades, will take on his role at a time when SRFS policies are a hot topic of discussion at Penn. 

The patients whose information was contained on the non-encrypted laptop were notified of its theft via letter from Penn Medicine.

The final bill omitted a tax on graduate student waivers, which experts predicted would have hiked student fees by up to 300 percent. 

The study compared 36 students who took six 90-hour art observation courses at the art museum with other students who did not take any of the courses.

Because of the association between food and decreasing hunger, even seeing food can indicate to the brain that the body is receiving the nutrients it needs, suppressing the desire to eat.

Even though the Penn administration has expressed support of its DACA students, dreamers have no concrete path that would preventing them from deportation.