05/01/19 8:20pm
Mele and Speck are a part of the 100 new members and 25 foreign associates in the distinguished Academy.
04/25/19 9:46pm
The Basser Center’s work helps to prevent the development of BRCA mutations — the phenomena which make a person more susceptible to certain cancers, including breast, ovarian, prostate and pancreatic cancer.
04/17/19 7:54pm
Citizen, a company based in New York, designed an app to provide users with information about 911 emergencies in real time. The app launched in the Philadelphia area on April 16.
04/10/19 7:02pm
The certificate program is free for current SP2 students, while SP2 alumni will need to pay $159 for the four-course program or $49 for each individual course.
04/09/19 12:11am
Wawa won its bid for two liquor licenses, paying the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board $186,357 for a location in Philadelphia and $160,357 for a location in Delaware County.
03/28/19 12:18pm
Researchers from Penn Nursing determined that the nurse work environment provides the foundation of a positive hospital environment.
03/13/19 3:40pm
The study ranked Los Angeles first place of the 30 major metropolitan areas surveyed. Pittsburgh was No. 13, Washington D.C. was No. 20, and New York was No. 23.
02/22/19 1:12am
Chemistry professor Jessica Anna and Mathematics professor Davi Maximo are among 126 Sloan Fellows in the United States and Canada. Each will receive $70,000 for a two-year research period.
02/06/19 11:42pm
The donation from the Katz Fund will help expand the program and advance the quality of the Wharton People Lab's research and development plans.
01/30/19 10:26pm
Ashmore was previously an associate professor at Penn and associate curator for the American Section of the Penn Museum of Archeology and Anthropology.
01/23/19 6:19pm
The school received $13.4 million in awards from the National Institutes of Health in 2018 to support research and improve national health.
11/26/18 6:40pm
Jerry Rabinowitz, who graduated from the College in 1977 and from the Perelman School of Medicine in 1977, was one of 11 people killed in the Pittsburgh shooting on Oct. 27.
11/12/18 9:19pm
Powell also served as director of the initiative, which focused mainly on increasing the number and diversity of languages, specifically those of Indigenous communities, offered at Penn.
11/06/18 1:38am
A large task force will be put in place in order to protect against voting fraud and monitor polling locations in Philadelphia on Election Day.
10/30/18 11:28pm
According to a report from The New York Times, the 1968 Wharton graduate frequently confides in his close friends in phone calls made using an iPhone that is not secure.
10/23/18 7:43pm
The award, which was part of the Bloomberg American Cities Climate Challenge, was also given to 19 other cities, including Pittsburgh, Boston, and Washington, D.C.
10/09/18 8:00am
Jay Kislak is the namesake of the Van Pelt Library Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
09/30/18 9:31pm
The event, which is a part of the annual National Electric Contractors Association convention, will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
09/24/18 4:45pm
Neighborhoods in Los Angeles and Manhattan secured the top spots, with a 91.4 percent and a 54.5 percent increase in millennial populations respectively.
09/20/18 8:25pm
Out of the ten most populous cities in America, Philadelphia had the highest poverty rate and was named the poorest large city.
