Front Breaking
Penn gears up to face Colgate in season opener
The Quakers open the season against Colgate, a team that heavily favors the run on offense, where Penn struggled last season.
Perelman School of Medicine launches a four-year palliative care program
Penn is one of the few medical schools in the country that provide a robust, four-year curriculum on palliative care.
Penn Women’s Center to select new director before end of the semester
The Penn Women’s Center plans to have a permanent director by the end of the semester after Sherisse Laud-Hammond left last semester.
Penn President Liz Magill forms search committee to select new provost
The committee was announced Tuesday and consists of 20 students, professors, and staff from across Penn.
GAPSA leaders meet Liz Magill at GradFest kick-off event
The kickoff event was invitation-only and allowed student leaders across all twelve professional and graduate schools to meet each other and talk with administration.
Penn sees one of largest cost increases among universities nationwide
Last March, the Penn Board of Trustees agreed to increase tuition to $81,340 in the 2022-23 school year, up 2.9% from $79,014 in the 2021-22 school year.
Students demand Penn support Middle East Center at U. Council meeting after funding wipeout
Several students shared their thoughts about the importance of the center, while others held up signs with messages like “No Funding = Loss of Culture Scholarship Discourse” and “The MEC is our Community”.
Keshav Ramesh | From a progressive: Race-based affirmative action isn’t progressive
Columnist Keshav Ramesh argues that race-based affirmative action needs to be replaced with a system that instead takes socioeconomic status into account to truly guarantee racial and ethnic diversity.
A look at Penn football analytics: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Though Penn had a couple of high-performing groups, most aspects of the 2021 Quakers fell below their Ivy League counterparts.
Penn calls risk of campus monkeypox outbreak ‘extremely low,’ advises caution
There have been no cases at Penn this semester and the risk of an outbreak on campus remains “extremely low,” according to Penn Public Health and Wellbeing.
Penn's 60-Second Lectures returns to College Green this fall with new format
The lecture series will take place on Sept. 14, starting at noon at the Benjamin Franklin statue in front of College Hall.
Penn Wellness to host ‘Lunch-n-Learn’ session to educate on monkeypox
The event will take place in Houston Hall from noon to 1 p.m. and will host a Penn epidemiologist and a medical provider from Student Health and Counseling.
Princeton financial aid will cover all costs for families making up to $100K
Starting in fall 2023, all eligible students at Princeton University will be exempt from paying all college-related expenses, including room and board.
Wharton names Renita Miller as inaugural chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer
Miller comes to Penn from Princeton University, where she spent four years as the associate dean for access, diversity, and inclusion at Princeton Graduate School.
Penn Medicine launches clinical trial to test gum that traps COVID-19, preventing spread
The chewing gum, designed by the School of Dental Medicine researcher Henry Daniell, has the ability to block the transmission of COVID-19.
Penn to build new performing arts theater in first-ever expansion of Annenberg Center
The 3,100-square-foot building, which is part of a $25 million renovation plan, is expected to have an audience capacity of 300 to 350 people
Dan Swanstrom's return to Penn football as offensive coordinator
Following an season in which Penn ranked dead last in points per game in the Ivy League, new offensive coordinator Dan Swanstrom has a tall task ahead of him.
Acme reopens despite new report of additional health code violations
A reinspection report by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health's Office of Food Protection cleared Acme, located at 40th and Walnut Streets, to reopen to the public.
Academic integrity and student conduct violations drop, approaching pre-pandemic levels
Data for the 2021-2022 academic year shows a 43% decrease in academic integrity violations and a 45% decrease in student conduct violations when compared to the 2020-2021 academic year.