04/07/25 5:28am
Hosted by Natives at Penn and the Greenfield Intercultural Center, the Penn Powwow is a tradition that aims to celebrate diversity on campus and honor the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape tribe.
03/18/25 9:08am
Researchers from Penn’s School of Dental Medicine discovered that training the innate immune system may lead to increased bone loss in inflammatory conditions such as periodontitis and arthritis.
03/03/25 11:38pm
The City of Philadelphia will honor Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander — the first Black woman in the United States to receive a Ph.D. in economics and the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School — with a statue at Thomas Paine Plaza outside the Philadelphia Municipal Services Building.
02/20/25 2:34am
The Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts opened a recreation of a colonial coffeehouse last week in recognition of the Semiquincentennial: the 250th anniversary of America’s birth.
02/10/25 9:56pm
The film festival aims to highlight short films under five minutes in length featuring stories of climate resilience and an “Earth-positive” future.
01/30/25 9:36pm
Black squirrels — frequently found all over Penn’s grounds — were likely introduced over 200 years ago and are now part of an unofficial campus culture.
01/15/25 11:54pm
This year, Penn was one of four Ivy League schools to continue its test-optional policy, despite the remaining four reinstating their standardized testing requirements.
11/19/24 10:15pm
Miura, a political science professor and law faculty member at Sophia University and visiting scholar at Harvard University's Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, spoke on the challenges facing gender equality in Japanese politics today.
11/04/24 12:05am
She will be stepping back from her position as anchor on “Andrea Mitchell Reports” to pursue a broader role with the NBCU News Group as NBC News’ Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and Chief Washington Correspondent.
10/29/24 2:16am
College first years Amy Lee and Blake Gilman, along with College senior and co-president of PFS Nick Bausenwein, performed alongside national champions, international competitors, and world medalists.
10/15/24 7:16pm
White will continue to oversee the KWH Fellows Seminar and work on developing a new program series focusing on intersections of music, visual arts, poetics, sound studies, theory, and performance.
10/06/24 7:15pm
Author and activist Luis A. Miranda Jr. spoke at the Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics in a talk titled "Relentless Advocacy: The Role of Latino Voices in Politics.”
