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Monkeypox Temple University

Colleges need to prepare for monkeypox to spread among students, infectious disease experts say

After the omicron surge, Americans increasingly resumed pre-pandemic lifestyles, Penn survey shows

Rapper Hoodie Allen returns to Philly with new pop-punk album on the horizon

Reducing violent crime in cities also results in fewer heart disease deaths, Penn research suggests

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

Penn researchers develop hands-free microbots that brush and floss teeth

Penn Microbots Teeth Cleaning

Penn to host Sakura Collection fashion show featuring Japanese textiles

Sakura Collection Penn

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

Penn NFT COVID vaccine

Global swimming organization bars transgender athletes from women's competitions

Penn breaks ground on one of state's largest solar projects in effort to reduce carbon emissions

Penn Solar Projects

Penn to build massive life sciences complex at Pennovation Works campus

Pennovation Life Sciences Lab

Swimmer Lia Thomas to pursue Olympics after Penn graduation

Penn student roasts Doc Rivers at graduation ceremony

Penn law professor Amy Wax rebuked for saying Black people resent western achievements

Amy Wax Penn Professor

Benefit concert for Ukraine at Penn Rotunda to feature traditional Eastern European music

Ukraine Benefit Concert

Scientists expect COVID-19 to become endemic, but a new report stresses the U.S. is far from the 'next normal'

Transgender athletes deserve 'same respect,' Penn swimmer Lia Thomas tells Sports Illustrated

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

Penn creates tuition-free nurse practitioner program after receiving record $125 million donation

Penn Nurse Practitioners Program

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

Lia Thomas Penn swimmer

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia named America's best large employer by Forbes

Children's Hospital Philadelphia Forbes

Penn President Amy Gutmann confirmed as U.S. ambassador to Germany

Telemedicine can help reduce racial disparity in follow-up appointments, study finds

Telemedicine Study Penn

Penn, Villanova students to compete in 'Jeopardy! National College Championship'

Jeopardy National College Championship

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has unfair advantage, 16 Penn teammates write in unsigned letter

Penn Transgender Swimmer

Some of Penn's Wharton students think the average American earns more than $100,000, professor says

UPenn Tweet

Penn among 16 colleges sued for alleged financial-aid collusion

Penn Antitrust Lawsuit

Free Library of Philadelphia names Airea D. Matthews as city's newest poet laureate

Airea Matthews Poet Laureate

Penn Law professor Amy Wax skewered again for claiming U.S. is 'better off with fewer Asians'

Amy Wax Penn law

Penn researchers named Time's 'Heroes of the Year' for helping to develop COVID-19 vaccines

Time Heroes of the Year 2021

As Philly weighs new COVID-19 restrictions, Penn bans indoor social gatherings

Philly Vaccine Mandate Penn

Chewing gum developed by Penn researchers may help cut COVID-19 transmission

COVID-19 transmission gum

Franklin Institute to honor Penn researchers who played vital role in developing COVID-19 vaccines

Franklin Institute Awards Drew Weissman Katalin Karikó

Penn accepting Bitcoin payments for Wharton School's new cryptocurrency program

Penn cryptocurrency Bitcoin

Six Philadelphia-area colleges make U.S. News' best global universities list

Penn Best Global Universities

Penn Medicine to use $14 million grant to reduce disparities in suicide prevention

Penn Medicine grant

Penn, Swarthmore rank highly again on U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges lists

U.S. News & World Report best colleges list

Penn researchers awarded $3 million Breakthrough Prize for developing mRNA technology used by COVID-19 vaccines

Penn Breakthrough Prize

Penn falls, Princeton rises in Forbes' annual ranking of best U.S. colleges

Forbes College Rankings

Penn Medicine, Wharton School initiative seeks to improve health of lower-income Philly residents

Penn Medicine Wharton School Fund for Health

Five Guys plans new restaurant on Penn campus in University City

Five Guys Penn

Penn unveils plans for new student performing arts center

Penn Arts Plans

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