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Campus & Community
Wharton School to Host 2011 Global Alumni Forum in San Francisco
Philadelphia and San Francisco – The Wharton School announced that, for the first time in the history of the Wharton Global Alumni Forums, the School next year will combine the three regional Forums into a single event, to be held in San Francisco on June 23-24, 2011.
National Research Council Ranks Penn’s Graduate Programs Among Nation's Best
PHILADELPHIA -- The National Research Council has released its long-awaited assessment of the nation’s research doctoral programs. The assessment, using data collected from the 2005-06 academic year, covers 4,838 programs in 62 fields at 212 universities.
Penn Announces Third Round of Green Fund Grants; Submission Deadline Is Oct. 29
PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania’s Green Fund will accept applications beginning Oct. 1 for a third round of grants to support green innovative ideas from students, faculty or staff designed to help Penn meet its sustainability goals.
Report from Penn’s Fels Institute of Government Shows Positive Results of Urban Investment
PHILADELPHIA –- A new report from the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government shows how public investment guided by strategic planning can produce highly successful results, even within an urban area formerly plagued by high levels of vacancy and abandonment.
Penn Public Safety Launches New Service: Penn Guardian
PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania’s Division of Public Safety today launched a new safety service, Penn Guardian, which allows DPS’s emergency communications center, PennComm, to identify the GPS coordinates of registered cell phones.
Penn's Endowment Returns 13 Percent
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania endowment had a return of nearly 13 percent for fiscal year 2010.
Former Philadelphia Managing Director Camille Cates Barnett To Become Penn IUR Scholar
Today, Eugenie Birch and Susan Wachter, co-directors of the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) announced that Dr. Camille Cates Barnett, formerly Managing Director of the City of Philadelphia, will become a Penn IUR Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. With support of a William Penn Foundation grant to Penn IUR, Dr.
Penn President Amy Gutmann Meets With Vice President Biden on Stimulus Funding for Research
WASHINGTON -- University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann attended a meeting at the White House today as an invited guest of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Penn to expand its full-tuition scholarship aid to families with a higher income threshold
Penn’s Quaker Commitment will expand full-tuition scholarships and will no longer consider the primary family home as an asset in its calculation for institutional aid. Interim President J. Larry Jameson and director of financial aid Elaine Papas Varas offer remarks.
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Bloomberg
Ivy League’s Penn shakes up aid formula by excluding home equity
To increase affordability, Penn will stop including a family’s equity in their primary home when determining a student’s financial aid eligibility.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Penn student awarded Rhodes Scholarship to continue cancer research at Oxford University
College of Arts and Sciences fourth-year Om Gandhi from Barrington, Illinois, has been awarded a 2025 Rhodes Scholarship to continue his cancer research at Oxford University.
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Chicago Sun-Times
UChicago students, Barrington native among 2024 Rhodes Scholars heading to University of Oxford
College of Arts and Sciences fourth-year Om Gandhi from Barrington, Illinois, has been awarded a 2025 Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Penn is offering free Narcan through vending machine on campus
A vending machine on Penn’s campus will offer free Narcan and other wellness and health products, with remarks from Jackie Recktenwald and Benoit Dubé of Wellness at Penn.
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