05/24/07 5:00am
Draping red and blue banners soared alongside a larger-than-life toothbrush, congratulatory balloons and, of course, students' spirits at Penn's Commencement ceremonies - held on what University President Amy Gutmann repeatedly called "a perfect day."
The ceremonies, which mark the 251st in Penn's history, took place in Franklin Field on the morning of May 14.
05/11/07 5:00am
Draping red and blue banners soared alongside a larger-than-life toothbrush, congratulatory balloons and, of course, students' spirits at Penn's commencement ceremonies - held on what University President Amy Gutmann repeatedly called "a perfect day."
01/23/07 5:00am
The messages proclaimed by two versions of anti-Penn posters currently plastered across West Philadelphia are anything but passive or forgotten.
12/06/06 5:00am
College senior Bryce LeFort and Wharton senior Stephen Lande face preliminary hearings this morning on charges of aggravated assault.
LeFort and Lande are being charged for their alleged involvement in an incident that left College senior Andrew Scharf missing a chunk of an ear on the night of Oct.
12/01/06 5:00am
It's only been a couple of months since the season's final Clark Park flea market, but you may already miss the cluttered tables of handmade jewelry and racks of patterned blazers from the '80s.
Fortunately for Penn's flea-market junkies, the organizers of this community staple are putting together an event this Sunday that is sure to hold us over until Spring: a holiday bazaar at the Rotunda, located at 40th and Walnut streets.
11/28/06 5:00am
Penn's Division of Public Safety has announced that it will resume releasing crime victims' specific affiliations with the University.
The division had decided earlier this year to only indicate whether crime victims are affiliated with the University, ceasing to distinguish between students, faculty and staff members.
11/22/06 5:00am
Four college-age women have been robbed at the point of a screwdriver near campus in the past two weeks, prompting public safety officials to issue a warning to students.
The first such robbery occurred Nov. 9, officials say. DPS issued a crime alert about the cases yesterday, asking students to come forward with any information they have.
11/20/06 5:00am
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center has been honored as one of the nation's most prestigious hospitals for cardiovascular treatments.
11/15/06 5:00am
Penn researchers have completed research on a vaccine that may lead to the prevention of certain types of tumors, specifically breast tumors, according to Reuters.
The research was presented this weekend at a meeting hosted by the American Association for Cancer Research.
11/13/06 5:00am
HUP first in Phila. to adopt imaging system
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania has become the city's first hospital to use a new type of imaging technology that can provide detailed, 3-D images of patients' hearts.
Because the computing tomography technology is faster, it can take a more accurate picture of the heart - which is constantly in motion.
10/31/06 5:00am
Weekly meetings held by Philadelphia police officials will no longer be open to the public and media, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Compstat sessions, which are now only open to police personnel, were launched in March 1998 by the Philadelphia Police Department so that police could have concrete forum in which to analyze and map weekly crime statistics from across the city.
10/27/06 5:00am
Penn Medical Professor Helen Davies has received an award for her work in medical education.
The Association of American Medical Colleges is honoring the microbiology professor with the Alpha Omega Alpha award.
Davies has been teaching for 40 years, and she was the first female member of Penn Medicine's Microbiology Department.
10/13/06 5:00am
WILMINGTON, Del. - After seldom showing much emotion during her five weeks on trial, Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya cracked a smile yesterday when she learned that jurors had failed to agree - again.Judge John Babiarz declared a mistrial in the first-degree murder case at about 1:20 p.m. yesterday after jurors released a note stating their inability to reach a decision. They split 6-6 after 27 total hours of deliberating.The first mistrial, which occurred in February, resulted from a jury split 11-1 in favor of acquittal.
10/12/06 5:00am
Three School of Medicine professors were honored on Tuesday when they were named to the national Institute of Medicine.
The institute is part of the National Academy of Sciences, and is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that analyzes and consults on issues related to medicine and health.
10/12/06 5:00am
WILMINGTON - After deliberating for more than 24 hours over the past week, jurors left court with no verdict once again yesterday in the case of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya.
Malinovskaya is charged with the Dec. 23, 2004, first-degree murder of Temple University student Irina Zlotnikov.
10/09/06 5:00am
Researchers at Penn's School of Medicine have discovered a major protein related to Lou Gehrig's disease and a type of dementia.
09/28/06 5:00am
The Penn Health System's fleet of helicopters is about to grow.
The four-rotorcraft PennSTAR Air Medical Services will receive a delivery of two American Eurocopter EC135s, advanced aircraft that can carry six or seven passengers and come equipped with night-vision goggles, according to Rotorhub, a source for helicopter-related news.
09/28/06 5:00am
The AstraZeneca drug corporation launched its first clinical pharmacology unit in the United States at Penn's Presbyterian Medical Center yesterday, according to the company.
A clinical pharmacology unit conducts research about the safety of developing drugs and performs initial human testing.
09/25/06 5:00am
Facebook.com may soon be sold to Yahoo for about $1 billion, according to an article published last week in The Wall Street Journal.
The companies are in serious discussions over the sale of the site, founded by former Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, the Journal reported.
09/25/06 5:00am
Penn Medicine Radiology professor Marc Levine has received an Eminent Scientist of the Year Award 2006 from the International Research Promotion Council, based in India.
Levine, both a clinician and a researcher, received the award for his research in gastrointestinal radiology, a field in which he has co-authored and published about 300 pieces of literature.
