Administration
Philadelphia has been selected as one of 20 finalists to host Amazon's HQ2
Close to 240 cities submitted proposals in October last year applying to be the location of Amazon’s second headquarters. Philadelphia has now been selected as one of the top 20 finalists.
Rabbi Lord Sacks urged religious groups at Penn to come together to solve world problems
“Our common humanity takes precedence over our religious differences,” Sacks said at the Perry World House Tuesday.
Students have shared accounts of sexual harassment by Penn faculty in a public survey
A professor from the University of Illinois called on people nationwide to share their stories of sexual harassment within academia and higher education. Now, students at Penn are doing exactly that.
Marijuana policies nationwide are changing. Here's why Penn's are not.
According to Director for the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives Noelle Melartin, Penn's campus follows federal laws on marijuana in order to maintain federal funding.
How the Penn Wharton Budget Model became a player in the debate on the GOP tax bill
The Penn Wharton Budget Model's study has been cited numerous times in media organizations and has even been the subject of many news stories published in news publications.
MindCORE, Penn’s new interdisciplinary program, focuses on “integrative study of the mind”
The Center for Outreach, Research, and Education — the newest of Penn's neurological, behavioral, and intelligence-based research initiatives — is launching this January.
At Penn's annual MLK Day of Service, organizers stress the importance of public education in Phila.
“It really should not matter what your family means are or what you were born into, but that a good education should always be accessible,” an administrator from the School of Social Policy & Practice said.
Here's how Penn decides whether to suspend operations for bad weather
There is a minimum number of school days which all universities must meet, and that often influences the decision of whether or not to suspend operations.
The search begins for Penn's new vice provost and director of libraries
Carton Rogers will retire in June. He has worked in Penn Libraries since 1975, becoming the vice provost and director of libraries in 2004. In his role, he oversaw 18 separate University libraries.
Penn Medicine officially incorporated the Princeton HealthCare System
This is a marker of a greater shift toward incorporating small hospitals into larger health systems in order to provide more specialized and efficient care, experts say.
At a memorial service, friends gathered to honor the life of College freshman William Steinberg
Along with his parents and his two brothers, Steinberg was one of 10 American tourists who died in a plane crash while sightseeing in Costa Rica on Dec. 31.
Penn announced a new executive director of Student Registration and Financial Services
Matt Sessa, who has worked with federal and state financial aid programs for over two decades, will take on his role at a time when SRFS policies are a hot topic of discussion at Penn.
A Penn Medicine laptop with private patient information was stolen from a car
The patients whose information was contained on the non-encrypted laptop were notified of its theft via letter from Penn Medicine.
Under the final GOP tax plan, Penn will pay a landmark excise tax on its endowment
The final bill omitted a tax on graduate student waivers, which experts predicted would have hiked student fees by up to 300 percent.
This Penn study found that studying art can make for more attentive physicians
The study compared 36 students who took six 90-hour art observation courses at the art museum with other students who did not take any of the courses.
This Penn study addresses hunger pains and how to suppress them
Because of the association between food and decreasing hunger, even seeing food can indicate to the brain that the body is receiving the nutrients it needs, suppressing the desire to eat.
Trump’s repeal of DACA: inside the movement to support Penn’s 'dreamers' in 2017
Even though the Penn administration has expressed support of its DACA students, dreamers have no concrete path that would preventing them from deportation.
The office that helps Penn international students with visas is moving next semester
The last day for international students to request travel signatures is Dec. 15, since the ISSS office will be closed for advising after this Friday.
The year in free speech at Penn: Trump, neo-Nazi flyers, and 'bourgeois values'
From NFL players kneeling during the national anthem to the anti-LGBTQ preachers on College Green, free speech dominated national and local headlines this year.