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From interdisciplinary research and life-changing discoveries to a new University president and everything in between, this year at Penn has been one for the books.
More than 30 representatives from the University traveled to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, for two weeks of negotiations at this year’s United Nations climate change conference.
Penn’s Named Scholarship Celebration returned to Rockwell Gymnasium on Nov. 16—the first time it’s been held in person since 2019.
The Commons serves as a collaborative resource for researchers in the health sciences, providing the latest tools and technologies to further health care research and equality.
What is traditionally a flag raising at College Green moved indoors due to the rainy weather, but the celebration was no less meaningful.
Student volunteers from Penn Leads the Vote greeted voters at Penn Commons, helping them determine their registration status and answering questions.
Capping off a festivities-filled inauguration day, President Liz Magill and Kagan had a wide-ranging conversation about the law, Kagan’s career, and building congeniality on the current Court.
President Liz Magill’s inauguration on Friday coincided with Penn’s Homecoming festivities, making for an extra-spirited weekend on campus.
Penn scored a touchdown with 20 seconds left in the game, which clinched a 20-13 Homecoming win over Yale on Saturday at Franklin Field.
The University celebrated the inauguration of Liz Magill, its ninth president, on Friday, Oct. 21.
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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