• Making History: Campaign Reaches $3 Billion

    Making History: Campaign Reaches $3 Billion

    Penn President Amy Gutmann announced at the Feb. 18 meeting of the Board of Trustees that the University has reached the $3 billion mark in its $3.5 billion Making History campaign.

  • Penn GSE in Kazakhstan

    Penn GSE in Kazakhstan

    As a part of the University of Pennsylvania's global engagement, the Graduate School of Education has partnered with officials in Kazakhstan to establish Nazarbayev University, a preeminent Kazakhstani-run research university allowing academic freedom and self-governance.

  • Penn Science Cafe

    Penn Science Cafe

    If the popularity of the prime-time sitcom “The Big Bang Theory” or the number of television programs produced in the Star Trek franchise (6!) says anything about popular culture, it's that science is not necessarily the enemy of fun.

  • Welcome Back to Penn

    Welcome Back to Penn

    With classes resuming on Wednesday, January 12, Penn welcomes its students back to campus this week following the winter break.

  • Penn’s Year of Water springs from Climate Action Plan

    Penn’s Year of Water springs from Climate Action Plan

    Water flows all around us. It makes up about 60 percent of our bodies. We need to drink it to survive. We need it, too, to keep our living spaces clean and to carry away our waste.