Campus & Community

As Philadelphia’s largest private employer, Penn has a profound impact on the local and state economy.

Frederick “Fritz” Steiner will be the next dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, effective July 1. 

The University of Pennsylvania announced today that it has authorized a $214 million financial-aid budget for 2016-17 — the largest in the University’s history — while increasing total undergraduate charges by 3.9 percent.

Four years ago, Penn launched a pilot initiative called the Digital Humanities Forum to generate interest in and buzz about new computational methods of humanities research on campus.

Dating back 165 years, most of the neighborhoods in Philadelphia were their own municipalities. In 1854 they merged, creating the consolidated City and County of Philadelphia. Tasked with brainstorming ideas to make Philadelphia a more equitable city, a group at a design workshop at Penn earlier this week suggested getting rid of that very Consolidation Act.

More than 100 years have passed since W.E.B. Du Bois wrote “The Philadelphia Negro” and the United States is a much different country. America has grown up and become a more cultured, tolerant, and civilized nation.

For a brief moment at the end of World War II, every computer programmer in the world was a woman.

In just two months, scientists and science fans will launch into action at the sixth annual Philadelphia Science Festival (PSF), a weeklong celebration that aims to involve Philadelphians of all ages in engaging activities, talks, and exhibits.

In one large metropolitan area, arraignment decisions made with the assistance of machine learning cut new domestic violence incidents by half, leading to more than 1,000 fewer such post-arraignment arrests annually, according to new findings from the University of Pennsylvania.

WHO &  WHAT:          The Public Policy Challenge invites students from across the University of Pennsylvania to develop a policy proposal based on an issue that affects Philadelphia, such as education, public health, homelessness, recidivism and others.