Penn

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Mental health check-ins to smartphones may monitor suicide risk better than weekly therapy sessions

Penn President J. Larry Jameson plans to step down next summer

Penn president resigns

Penn professor's new book explores impact of Black storytellers on American culture

Sarah J. Jackson

College Basketball

Philly's rooting guide for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament

3,000 Philly-area security guards get pay raises with new union contract

security guard contract

Researchers create 'digital monument' to site of 2019 South Philly refinery explosion

pes refinery

Penn rejects Trump administration's proposal to exchange operational influence for funding advantages

Penn Trump Compact

Lawmakers, education leaders condemn Penn for dropping DEI protections in response to executive order

Penn DEI scrub hearing

Big 5 great Fran Dunphy to retire as La Salle's head coach

Former Penn swimmers sue university over trans athlete Lia Thomas competing in 2022 Ivy League championships

Penn professor Amy Wax sues university, alleging her suspension is the result of racial discrimination

Amy Wax Lawsuit

College Basketball

What you need to know about the Big 5 Classic at Wells Fargo Center

Big 5 Classic

Police still searching for driver in hit-and-run that injured 3 nurses outside Penn Presbyterian

suspect penn presbyterian hit-and-run

Faculty group sues Penn for complying with House committee's antisemitism investigation, decries 'McCarthyism'

Penn Antisemitism Lawsuit

Penn lecturer's political cartoons about Israel condemned by university president as 'antisemitic'

Penn Political Cartoons

U.S. House committee claims Penn enabled 'pervasive antisemitism' on campus

Penn antisemitism House probe

'Stranger Things' star Noah Schnapp answers backlash against 'misconstrued' views on Israel-Hamas war

Penn taps Ramanan Raghavendran to head its board of trustees

Ramanan Raghavendran Penn

Penn's faculty sign letter opposing trustee, donor influence

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Penn taps its medical school dean as interim president, replacing Liz Magill

Larry Jameson Penn

College Basketball

Prepare for the Big 5 Classic at the Wells Fargo Center this weekend

Opinion: Returning to Penn doesn't feel like a homecoming

penn Franklin field

Penn was too slow to condemn Palestine Writes speakers who have espoused antisemitism, President Magill says

Penn Israel Palestine

Trustee resigns in protest over alleged antisemitism and lack of moral compass at the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania campus

Marc Rowan: The opinion piece the University of Pennsylvania didn't want you to read

Carroll - Student on campus of University of Pennsylvania

In the '70s, a con man from Ghana swindled Philadelphians out of millions in the 'biggest scam' the city has seen

Anansi's Gold con man

Penn unveils designs for $75 million performing arts center

Penn Performing Arts Center

Insomnia Cookies teams up with 'Stranger Things' star Noah Schnapp for new dessert

noah schnapp insomnia cookies

Big 5 adds Drexel, introduces triple-header format at the Wells Fargo Center

Quinta Brunson to deliver keynote address to education school grads at Penn

quinta brunson commencement

NCAA Basketball

No City 6 school makes Men's NCAA Tournament for first time since 1977

Big 5 March Madness check in: Will Philly be completely blanked on the bracket?

Student protesters who interrupted Penn football game say they're facing trespassing citations, disciplinary action

Penn protesters football

University City Townhome residents get third affordable housing extension as eviction looms

UC Townhomes extension

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year award

Mural design honoring Judge Leon Higginbotham to be unveiled in West Philadelphia

West Philly mural Leon Higginbotham

Penn's first NFT, a video on COVID-19 vaccine technology, to be auctioned off

Penn NFT COVID vaccine

Swimmer Lia Thomas to pursue Olympics after Penn graduation

Penn student roasts Doc Rivers at graduation ceremony

Vote: Best Philadelphia team ever bracket Round of 32 — Dr. J region

Best team ever bracket, DR J region

Penn scientists aim to bring promising cancer therapy closer to reality

Penn Medicine FLASH radiation

Penn swimmer Lia Thomas sets six records at Ivy League Championships

Transgender Penn swimmer Lia Thomas cleared by NCAA ruling to compete in next month's championships

Lia Thomas Penn swimmer

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