The agreement, which was reached on Feb. 17, contains provisions for increased stipends and enhanced childcare and medical benefits.

The incident affected traffic near the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, and the Clifton Center for Medical Breakthroughs.

The agreement comes after more than a year of negotiations between the University and the union, which represents more than 3,700 graduate workers with teaching and research positions at Penn.

This year’s Feb Club is the first to include free events and a lottery system for purchasing tickets. 

In 2025, 27 Penn undergraduates received fellowships from the selected programs.

MERT members held “rapid five-minute trainings” where students, faculty, and staff could learn how to perform hands-only CPR at 14 locations across Penn’s campus. 

The theme of this year’s report — “Illuminating the Endowment” — comes as a new federal tax on university endowments is scheduled to take effect in July.

The School of Nursing received $17.9 million in NIH awards in 2025, reclaiming the top spot for the first time since fiscal year 2019.

Penn received $2.8 billion, ranking in the top 1% of universities by funding.

Since October 2024, the University and Graduate Employees Together — University of Pennsylvania have met 45 times, bargaining on provisions over compensation, international student security, and workplace protections.

A press release stated that military services will reevaluate graduate programs at most Ivy League schools and many peer institutions.

Dobkin will be retiring from the University and Penn Medicine on June 30, marking the end of his 29-year long career at Penn.

As the Penn community celebrates Black History Month with University-wide programming, The Daily Pennsylvanian compiled a list of five courses offered in spring 2026 that honor Black culture.

The Feb. 11 notice — which instructs WCL to halt all operations by March 11 — was placed by the city's Department of Revenue.

Magill’s tenure at Georgetown is set to begin this August, according to a Friday announcement. 

Located approximately 30 miles from Penn’s campus, Betty was designed to handle artificial intelligence programs that can interpret large datasets and produce increasingly refined results. 

If a strike is called, graduate workers would begin picketing at 9 a.m. next Tuesday.