Pennsylvania hospitals sue Penn-affiliated hospital for $9 million in 'bogus' claims

The lawsuit, filed on May 22nd, alleges that the hospital had submitted invalid claims to receive a total of $9 million from a state-funded program.

Two well-known Penn donors just gifted $250 million to Columbia's medical school

Of the full donation, $150 million will fund an endowment which, after five years, will eliminate student loans for Columbia medical students. 

Inside the year-long battle to preserve Penn's Asian American Studies program

Heading into 2018, the ASAM program is at a crossroads. Without a director or robust physical space, the ASAM program may not thrive for much longer.

Penn professors are using organs infected with diseases to save lives — here's how

Penn Medicine has successfully run a clinical trial transplanting diseased organs from deceased donors to healthy recipients, then curing the recipients of the disease. 

Registration for Panhellenic recruitment has opened. Here's what you need to know.

From alcohol policies at sororities to the accelerated timeline of Panhellenic recruitment, here are six essential stories to read before you start the rush process. 

Six stories to read before you add Computer Science into your course cart

Registration for classes re-opened on Nov. 29. If trends from previous years are any indication, hundreds of students will work to get into a Computer Science course of some kind.

Voting data shows Bernie Sanders could have been elected as a Phila. official — if he lived in the city

Sanders was one of four people who received a write-in vote for the position of the judge of elections for the ninth division of the Fifth Ward. 

Two Penn students have been awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship

Penn seniors Adnan Zikri Jaafar and Christopher D’Urso bring the number of Rhodes Scholars from Penn to 26. 

Penn professor to serve on the board of trustees for the nonprofit group behind 'Sesame Street'

Amy Jordan, the associate dean for undergraduate studies at the Annenberg School for Communication and a communication professor, will serve as the chair of the education subcommittee on the board.

Lehigh University rejects calls to revoke an honorary degree awarded to Trump in 1988

Kelly McCoy, a 2017 Lehigh graduate, organized a petition signed by over 30,000 people calling on the University to revoke Trump's honorary degree.

Penn professors received $3.75 million to study how mealtimes affect health

The research could help inform recommendations for healthily-timed eating habits, identify targets for medical interventions for obesity, and prevent diabetes from developing.

Trump to nominate two more Penn alumni to key administration posts

Trump nominated Rohit Chopra to fill the open Democratic seat on the Federal Trade Commission and Kenneth Braithwaite to serve as the American ambassador to Norway. 

Penn sophomore named one of the 'Most Inspiring College Women' in annual Her Campus list

Grace Knight has spent much of her life working to raise awareness of cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease which affects the lungs and digestive system — she was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis as an infant. 

Protesters interrupted a Columbia administrator's class over the school's failure to comply with Title IX guidelines

The class, "Topics in Sexuality and Gender Law," is taught by Suzanne Goldberg, who is responsible for addressing sexual assault on campus.

Penn students love caffeine and eating healthy, according to this set of rankings

A study by the food delivery service Grubhub ranked Penn the No. 1 healthiest school among all the campuses that Grubhub delivered to. 

Students at Reed College disrupted a humanities lecture for allegedly being too Eurocentric

Students held up signs that read "Don't teach us White Supremacy" and "We Know Enough about White History." 

The University of California is suing the Trump administration for ending DACA

The University of California is the first University contesting Trump's ruling on DACA through a lawsuit.