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The Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the Perelman School of Medicine is honored for pioneering the development of CAR T cell therapy, which programs patients’ own immune cells to fight their cancer.
Weisberg has served as Senior Faculty Fellow, Global Climate Policy Lead, and director of Post-Graduate Programs at Perry World House since 2020.
In her debut on the popular Wharton School radio show, President Liz Magill discusses her leadership style, lessons learned from leading during a pandemic, and her optimism for the future.
Kicking off the University’s 284th academic year, first-year and transfer students were advised to take a wide view during at least some of their time at Penn, expanding horizons and seeing the borderless nature of knowledge.
President Liz Magill and Provost John L. Jackson Jr. welcomed first-year and transfer students and their families in an afternoon celebration on College Green.
Friends and family from near and far helped the Class of 2027 move onto campus this week.
Following tradition, members of the University community celebrated the placement of the final wood panel on Penn Engineering’s new data science building.
President Liz Magill hosted an ice cream social for the Penn community on Thursday afternoon, drawing faculty, staff, and students together on College Green.
World-renowned scholar of democratic theory and practice Sigal Ben-Porath, who has been a professor at Penn since 2004, will assume the role Sept. 1.
Banet-Weiser will assume the role of dean of Annenberg School for Communication beginning August 14, 2023.
Celebrated physician and best-selling author Siddhartha Mukherjee will deliver the address at the 2024 University of Pennsylvania Commencement, featuring remarks from Interim President J. Larry Jameson.
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Claire M. Fagin, who helped reshape the nursing profession as a clinician, researcher, educator and advocate, and who stepped away from teaching to become one of the first women to lead an Ivy League institution, the University of Pennsylvania, died Jan. 16 at her home in Manhattan. She was 97.
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In a Q&A, former Penn President Judith Rodin discusses her current role advising the Bellwether District, which seeks to reinvent two square miles of former oil refineries in South and Southwest Philly, and the rapid changes in business-academic relations throughout her career.
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J. Larry Jameson, executive vice president of Penn Medicine and dean of the Perelman School of Medicine, has been appointed as Penn’s interim president.
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A profile examines the accomplishments and leadership experience of J. Larry Jameson, Penn’s new interim president.
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President Liz Magill has been named as one of Philadelphia Business Journal’s Women of Influence in 2023 for her efforts to impact large-scale change and uplift other women.
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