Laura Anthony

Queer international students, who say they feel out of place in the LGBTQ and international communities, are starting a student group on campus.

the new student group focuses on mentoring and supporting underclassman

“This is really important for our trans students to feel part of the community and to be safe and to really be recognized for who they are,” Senior Associate Director of the LGBT Center Erin Cross said.

1990 College graduate Laura Alber finished Penn with an “anti-plan.” She’s now the president and chief executive officer of Williams-Sonoma, Inc.

The DP sat down with the student activist, who recently was featured in Latina Magazine.

The program will welcome a new director in 2015

The kind of uncertainty about the true nature of the Vagelos programs may be part of another common stereotype — that students often start but seldom finish the programs.

In 1851, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine graduate Samuel Cartwright delivered a report to the Medical Association of Louisiana claiming that blacks’ health was improved by slavery.

One team came in with a patent for a hand-held machine to diagnose vision loss. They came in with chewing gum.Sweet Bites, a team of five Penn students, won the Hult Prize regional competition in Boston over spring break, making them one of the six remaining teams worldwide competing for the $1 million prize.

Fatima Rahman, a 2011 Masterman graduate who went missing in January. Her body was found in March in the Schuylkill in late March