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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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DocuSys Awarded Anesthesia Information Management System Vendor Agreement at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- 2008-10-23
ATLANTA -- DocuSys, the leading anesthesia information management system AIMS, medication management, and presurgical care management system provider, today announced it has signed an agreement with The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania HUP to take over the maintenance of their AIMS environment. HUP is part of the University of...
Judge seals portions of lung cancer suit
- 2008-04-08
A federal judge yesterday sealed portions of a lawsuit that alleges the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and other parties should have known that the lungs they transplanted into a Newark, N.J., man were diseased. Tony Grier, 43, was dying from a rare lung disease in 2005 when he...
Ailing teen still at large after fleeing hospital
- 2008-03-05
Anthony Horton remained on the lam yesterday, in spite of his precarious health and his family's best efforts to get him to surrender to police.Horton, 17, a Youth Study Center prisoner, escaped from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania on Monday afternoon with the help of four teen pals....
Childrens Hospital Physician Named Deputy Mayor of Health and Opportunity and Health Commissioner for the City of Philadelphia
- 2008-01-02
To: HEALTH EDITORS Contact: Joey Marie McCool of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, +1-267-426-6070, McCool@email.chop.edu Donald F. Schwarz, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., vice chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, deputy physician-in-chief at The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia and chief, Craig-Dalsimer Division of...
MobileAccess Deploys the Universal Wireless Network at Penn Health's Three Hospitals
- 2007-05-21
State-of-the-Art Solution Supports Mobile Caregivers and Enhances the Patient Experience by Providing Pervasive Wireless Broadband Coverage VIENNA, Va. -- MobileAccess, the foremost enterprise wireless innovator, announced today that it has deployed its Universal Wireless Network at the University of Pennsylvania Health System's three hospitals. This state-of-the-art in-building wireless solution...
Misusing Vitamin to Foil Drug Test May Be Toxic; Plus, It Doesn't Work
- 2007-04-04
To: FAMILY EDITORSContact: Gina Marchiondo of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, +1-267-426-6054, Marchiondo@email.chop.edu PHILADELPHIA, April 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Taking excessive doses of a common vitamin in an attempt to defeat drug screening tests may send the user to the hospital -- or worse. Researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia...
Bucks girl, hit by school bus, is home again
- 2007-02-26
A 17-year-old Bucks County girl returned home again today after a brief setback in her recovery from injuries inflicted last month by a runaway school bus. On Wednesday, Ashley Zauflik left the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for the first time since the Jan. 12 accident at Pennsbury...
Girl hit by bus returns to hospital
- 2007-02-24
Hit by a school bus outside Pennsbury High School last month, student Ashley Zauflik, 17, was placed in an induced coma, eventually lost her left leg, and had to spend six weeks in a hospital. Wednesday, she got to go home. But yesterday morning, she was in an ambulance...
Barbaro has ‘significant setback’ in recovery
- 2007-01-10
Plans for Barbaro to leave the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center have been put on hold. The Kentucky Derby winner has had a "significant setback" over the last 24 hours, the hospital said Wednesday morniung. New Bolton issued a statement saying: "Barbaro became acutely more uncomfortable on his left...
Double Header Training at UMC; World Class Heart Transplant Teams to Become the 14th and 15th CardioWest™ Temporary Total Artificial Heart Certified Implant Centers
- 2006-04-25
TUCSON, Ariz. -- On Thursday and Friday, April 20 and 21, cardiovascular surgeon Benjamin Sun, M.D., of Ohio State University Ross Heart Hospital, and the 13 members of his transplant team were at University Medical Center UMC, in Tucson, Ariz., to complete Phase I of the CardioWestTM TAH-t certification training....
