Temple University’s board of trustees announced its intention to dismiss Temple’s president, Neil D.

Distinguished political scientist Beth Simmons has been appointed the 18th Penn Integrates Knowledge professor, the University announced Tuesday.

Just over a week before the start of the Republican National Convention, members of the Wharton community issued a petition decrying Donald Trump. 

Theft: June 30: Theft from Building Vandalism: June 27: Complainant, who remained anonymous, reported scratch marks in stainless steel wall coverings in the elevators in Huntsman Hall (3730 Walnut Street). The report was made at 3:10pm.

The attempted robbery took place inside of the ATM lobby of the PNC Bank.

True to his vocation, Howard began his piece invoking the Bible, and specifically the moments in it that he said were most noteworthy to him as a child.

Abner's, a restaurant located in University City, was shut down by the Philadelphia Department of Health on June 29 due to food safety violations, Philly.com reported.

For those of you who were watching, and/or mesmerized by, the Copa America Centanario, you’ll have noticed a few things.

For most of Penn’s undergraduate population, the end of the final exam period signals the time for kicking back, relaxing and fondly looking back at the previous year. But for a very lucky, very small fraction of the student body, the onset of summer simply means business as usual. Playing on a varsity spring sport inherently carries the risk of playing past the school year’s conclusion, and 2016 was no exception.

As the country prepares for the Rio Olympics later this summer, an unprecedented delegation from Penn fought for places on the United States’ swimming roster. 14 Quakers flew to Omaha, Neb.

This year’s President’s Innovation Prize recipients are joining the Pennovation Center, the University's Division of Facilities and Real Estate Services announced on June 28. 

The project, created by Professor and Chair of the Fine Arts Department Ken Lum, Urban Studies Professor Dr. Paul Farber and A. Will Brown, will feature several installations by world-renowned artists in ten pavilions across the city.

While Locust Walk definitely feels less crowded during the summer months, the campus is still far from empty. Along with the many students and faculty who remain at Penn working or doing research, there are some students from other schools who are calling the school home for the summer.

Differential privacy is a set of statistical techniques that can produce information about a certain population without providing enough information for individuals within that population to be identified.

Predicting yield is proving challenging as students’ application habits are changing. This past spring, nearby Pennsylvania State University was faced with an unexpectedly large incoming class. Nearly a third of admitted students accepted their offers by the decision deadline, up 30 percent from the year before.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 23 that President Obama can't prevent undocumented individuals from being deported in United States v. Texas and also upheld affirmative action in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin.

Graduate School of Education professor Joni Finney wrote in a June 22 article in the New York Times that college is becoming less accessible as time goes on, even for higher income brackets.   In recent research conducted at Penn and Vanderbilt, Finney compiled publicly available data on the costs of tuition at different kinds of colleges and universities throughout the United States.