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.
How the Penn Wharton Budget Model became a player in the debate on the GOP tax bill
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.
MindCORE, Penn’s new interdisciplinary program, focuses on “integrative study of the mind”
The Center for Outreach, Research, and Education — the newest of Penn's neurological, behavioral, and intelligence-based research initiatives — is launching this January.
Students and faculty at Penn reel from Trump's decision to end TPS status for El Salvador
The protected status for Salvadorans will officially end Sept. 9, 2019.
How the Penn Wharton Budget Model became a player in the debate on the GOP tax bill
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.
MindCORE, Penn’s new interdisciplinary program, focuses on “integrative study of the mind”
The Center for Outreach, Research, and Education — the newest of Penn's neurological, behavioral, and intelligence-based research initiatives — is launching this January.
The new Phila. DA just fired 31 staffers in a week. Penn students disagree on what this means.
“You’ve got to look at the dismissals in context: It’s one part of a much larger package that’s going on,” Civil rights attorney and senior fellow at Penn Law David Rudovsky said.
At Penn's annual MLK Day of Service, organizers stress the importance of public education in Phila.
“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.
For two years, the Penn Skating Club has fought for funding. It still doesn't have it.
After multiple attempts to gain funding through different channels, the group was told in November last year that even though they were recognized by SAC, they were not eligible for SAC funding.
As homicide case unfolds, friends of Blaze Bernstein find ways to remember him on campus
"We would like to honor our amazingly talented, passionate, intelligent, kind and devoted Whisk copy editor, Blaze N. Bernstein," the food magazine Penn Appetit wrote on Facebook.
Alone at Penn
How first-generation, low-income students navigate an empty campus during winter break
Geoffrey Hazard Jr., an Emeritus Professor at Penn Law, dies at 88
“Professor Hazard was a true giant in American law,” Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger said in a statement published by Penn Law.
Here's how Penn decides whether to suspend operations for bad weather
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.
The search begins for Penn's new vice provost and director of libraries
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.
Penn's Makuu Cultural Center joined other Philadelphians in celebrating Kwanzaa this year
Kwanzaa was founded as a non-religious Pan-African holiday to celebrate core themes, such as creativity, faith, and purpose, which are represented by candles lit from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1.
The 'fintech' trend has caught on at Wharton, but many students want more
While last spring semester, 100 students were enrolled in the half-credit course, this spring semester, 140 students are enrolled, visiting professor in finance Shimon Kogan said.
The Penn Slavery Project discovered that out of Penn's 28 founding trustees who were investigated, 20 of them held slaves and had financial ties to the slave trade.
Some dreamers at Penn find little comfort in the recent blocking of Trump's DACA reversal
A federal judge issued the injunction blocking the Trump administration from rescinding DACA and said safeguards against deportation must remain in place.
An armed robbery near 35th and Chestnut streets prompts UPenn alert
The Division of Public Safety's website described the suspect as a roughly 20-year-old thin, black man, donning an orange jacket.
The Orange County Register reported on Jan. 15 that College sophomore Bernstein was stabbed over 20 times in what authorities suggest was "an act of rage."


















