"It’s been known for some time that gun violence, like many other forms of crime and other social problems, can be clustered within certain neighborhoods."

While it's common for a university of Penn's size to employ a private police force, Penn has more than triple the number of sworn officers than its closest neighboring institution in Philadelphia. 

A Penn student who witnessed the incident said she was “livid there was no alert” sent out to the Penn community, especially because the man was let go by police. 

Various competitions have been set up inviting students to make arguments for Philadelphia to be made the home of the tech giant's next headquarters. 

Gutmann said the Task Force’s “overarching” goal had been to keep students safe from all types of harm, from sexual assault to “falling behind in their studies.” 

Penn publicizes its general, undergraduate acceptance rate each year, but does not release the precise admissions statistics governing internal transfers or dual degrees. 

In a survey taken in 2015, 42.4 percent of female Penn graduate students who responded said they have been victims of sexual harassment.

Hayley Geftman-Gold, a top lawyer at CBS who graduated from the College in 1997, was fired after posting on Facebook that she wasn't sympathetic for victims of the Las Vegas shooting.

Launched this semester, the Anti-Violence Engagement Network has already formed partnerships with Penn Democrats, Sigma Nu fraternity and Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention. 

Members of Penn's Latinx community are determined to make the events surrounding Latinx Heritage Month this year an opportunity both for celebration and for support. 

Some Penn students are going as part of their work for Rough Draft Ventures, a venture capital company that supports entrepreneurship at the university level. 

One of the largest debates that erupted this year was over the University's new rules around social events on campus. Here's everything you need to know about what happened. 

“Whenever perfection is driving you, shame is riding shotgun,” said Brene Brown, a professor at  the University of Houston who has spent the past 16 years studying vulnerability. 

The fellowships are part of Penn's growing efforts to engage its Philadelphia neighbors and are funded by a $2 million endowment from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The top quiz, titled “Choose Some Fall Things And We'll Tell You Which Taylor Swift You're Most Like,” gained almost 300,000 views. 

Students have to take additional classes and make changes to their academic load for a visa. Even then, various companies might reject them for being international. 

Some higher education experts said the new platform may just add to the list of things prospective students have to do, instead of easing the admissions process.