The investigation comes in the wake of a grand jury report that found more than 300 Catholic priests across Pennsylvania abused upwards of 1,000 children over seventy years.

Voters will also answer "yes" or "no" to a city bond question asking whether Philadelphia should borrow $181 million for an investment in infrastructure projects such as streets, parks, and municipal buildings.   

Screening Facebook language data and linguistic cues could help clinicians detect depression symptoms, Johannes Eichstaedt, founding scientist and postdoctoral fellow at Penn, said. 

KRISTEN YEH is a College sophomore from West Covina, Calif.

The way women decide to vote will be a strong indication of the way demographics have shifted in the past two years, said professor Dawn Teele, recipient of Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research of Women in Politics.

Some senior societies have existed for decades, but in recent years, a collection of new societies have been established to recognize contributions within specific cultural and interest groups.  

In 2017, the number of women holding board seats in Philadelphia-based companies reached 17 percent — just one percent higher than the previous year.

"In every election I've ever covered going back almost 30 years, politicians have always said this is the most important election of our lifetime," Dick Polman, WHYY political columnist and Penn writer-in-residence, said. "It's kind of become a cliche— but this one really is."

In Philadelphia, there are five local, state, and national races on the ballot, in addition to a ballot question on the issue of public spending.  

The unforgiving definition of hazing (wherein almost any pledging activity could fall under the umbrella policy) has left students uninterested in amending their group practices in order to meet a seemingly impossible university standard.

The bill also institutes a fine of up to $25,000 and a 10-year prison sentence for those who use drones to enable the shipping of contraband to a prison inmate.

In this week's edition of Is Stat So?, a pair of cousins dominated for sprint football, a month-long shutout streak came to an end, and Penn football failed to stop Yale's ground game.

Not all finance and consulting clubs have implemented the new guidelines to club recruitment. 180 Degrees Consulting, one of the most selective consulting clubs, has not followed the new guidelines. 

The Quakers saw a game full of action in New Haven, Conn. on Saturday. In a physical, back-and-forth affair, the the two squads ended the day tied 1-1.

Sansom Place East is currently home to 528 graduate students who call the building old and maintenance "horrible," but Business Services said it will be five to ten years before the building will see renovations. 

Mele and Kane earned the reward for their innovations on a new class of materials called topological insulators, which have important implications for electronics performance and quantum computing.

Students who aren’t members of a “Penn dynasty” can be just as invested in the University’s history and mission.