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At the University of Pennsylvania, you'll find a historic, Ivy League school with highly selective admissions and a history of innovation in interdisciplinary education and scholarship. You'll also find a picturesque campus amidst a dynamic city and a world-class research institution. Today Penn is home to a diverse undergraduate student body of nearly 10,000, hailing from every state in the union and all around the globe. Admissions are among the most selective in the country and Penn consistently ranks among the top 10 universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report survey. Another 10,000 students are enrolled in Penn's 12 graduate and professional schools, which are national leaders in their fields. The Wharton School is consistently one of the nation's top three business schools. The School of Nursing is one of the two best in the U.S. The School of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Education, Law School, School of Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, and Annenberg School for Communication all rank among the top 10 schools in their fields.
Number of Employees 20,000
NAICS Code Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools: 611310
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Obama Appoints Wagner to Council
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University of Pennsylvania president Gutmann to chair Obama’s bioethics commission
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Clarient Enters into Training and Consulting Agreement with University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- 2008-09-29
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. -- Clarient, Inc. (NASDAQ:CLRT), a premier anatomic pathology and molecular testing services resource for pathologists, oncologists and the pharmaceutical industry, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine's Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting Resource Laboratory Flow Cytometry Lab...
America's Top Colleges, Universities and Research Institutes Enroll in DriveSavers New Education Partner Program
- 2007-09-27
University of Pennsylvania Benefits From Program as DriveSavers Rescues Six Years of Irreplaceable Research Data NOVATO, Calif. -- DriveSavers, the worldwide leader in data recovery services, announced today that the company launched its first Education Partner Program with over 100 of the United States' top colleges, universities and research...
The School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania has received a $20 million gift from Krishna Singh to create the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology
- 2007-09-06
The School of Engineering and Applied Science at the UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA has received a $20 MILLION gift from Krishna Singh to create the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology. The gift is the single largest in the engineering school's history. The 100,000-square-foot center is expected to serve the Penn...
First Demonstration of New Hair Follicle Generation in an Animal Model
- 2007-05-16
To: MEDICAL EDITORSContact: Karen Kreeger of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, +1-215-349-5658, Karen.kreeger@uphs.upenn.edu PHILADELPHIA, May 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found that hair follicles in adult mice regenerate by re-awakening genes once active only in developing embryos. These findings provide...
Cut the nonsense.
- 2007-05-01
May 01, 2007 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The so-called "nonsense" mutations may cause a genetic disease. Nonsense mutations put "stop" signals in the middle of genes, resulting in the development of non-functional proteins that cause diseases such as cystic fibrosis and Duchenne muscular...
Silicon nitride nanogaps for faster components.(NANOTECHNOLOGY)
- 2006-05-01
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, have used electron beam lithography to create nanoscale electrical structures that work at high speeds. Professor Marija Drndic, a physicist in the university's Department of Physics and Astronomy, comments "For the first time, we have been...
Penn Study Shows Liver Receptor Key to Diet-Dependent Differences in Blood Lipid Levels; Receptor Can, When Overly Abundant, Adjust for Consequences of High-Fat Diet.
- 2005-05-12
Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, May 12 AScribe Newswire -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that a molecule found in the liver is an important link in explaining the relationship among diet, lipid levels in blood,...
Potential Treatment for Fragile X Syndrome Demonstrated in Fruit Fly Model.
- 2005-03-02
Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, March 2 AScribe Newswire -- Fragile X Syndrome is one of the most commonly inherited forms of mental retardation, with an incidence of 1 in 4,000 males and 1 in 8,000 females. Not many medications exist to...
Kaldellis, Anthony: Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity.(Book Review)
- 2004-09-22
Kaldellis, Anthony Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 305 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0-8122-3787-0 Publication Date: May 2004 Procopius of Caesarea's writings about the reign of Justinian (imp. 527-65 CE) are as indispensable...
Don't even think about lying.(Research & Developments)(Brief Article)(Column)
- 2003-09-01
A recent newspaper story has left us very queasy. We read that researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are working on what could, a few generations down, amount to a "stealth lie detector." It seems that when a person decides to tell a lie, blood rushes into...
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