Campus & Community

This spring, University of Pennsylvania students are getting an insider’s view of the political process as they examine election results and polling data to monitor voting patterns in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election. 

MaryFrances McCourt has been named Vice President for Finance and Treasurer at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Three University of Pennsylvania faculty members are among recipients of this year’s Sloan Research Fellowship, two from Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, one from Penn’s 

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.