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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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University of Pennsylvania president Gutmann to chair Obama’s bioethics commission
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New Key to Success in Online Retail: Geography
BNET
- 2009-10-12
Wharton's David Bell says old-fashioned neighborhood census data can bring new shoppers to your online door. We all understand that people who live in the same community shop at the same physical stores. But you’ve actually found that people in the...
Two die, two hurt in city shootings
- 2008-06-23
Two men were killed and two others seriously wounded in three separate shootings about the same hour early yesterday in Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania police chased and stopped a vehicle with three occupants minutes after they found Nathaniel Crawford, 26, mortally wounded about 1:12 a.m. in front of the University...
Weiss Tech House Announces 2008 PennVention Competition Winners
- 2008-04-16
PHILADELPHIA -- A new prosthetic accessory that is worn on the residual limb of a transtibial (below-knee) amputee was awarded the Grand Prize at the Fourth Annual PennVention competition for student inventors at the University of Pennsylvania's Weiss Tech House. This year's PennVention competition drew 50 student invention submissions, featured...
Deliberative Democracy Events at Cal U Include Lectures by James Fishkin, George Mehaffy, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
- 2008-03-17
To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Angela Burrows, California University of Pennsylvania Director of Public Affairs, +1-724-938-1540, burrows@cup.edu Environmental issues are vital to region, say students energized by presidential politics CALIFORNIA, Pa., March 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- California University of Pennsylvania hosts Deliberative Democracy: University Students Have Their Say, a day of...
William G. Owen | Penn administrator, 87
- 2008-01-26
William G. Owen, 87, of Newtown Square, a retired University of Pennsylvania administrator, died of heart failure Wednesday at home. Mr. Owen graduated from Upper Darby High School. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1942 and later earned a master's degree in education...
Joel Whitaker takes over as new owner and publisher of NL/NL.(The Newsletter on Newsletters LLC)(Brief article)
- 2007-12-24
Joel Whitaker of Whitaker Newsletters Inc., Spencerville, Maryland, has acquired The Newsletter on Newsletters from Marlene Jensen and Paul Swift, who owned it, d.b.a. The Newsletter on Newsletters LLC. Last summer Marlene earned a Ph.D. in marketing and has since accepted a faculty position...
Americans skip sleep to make time for leisure activities
- 2007-08-30
Americans who log long hours on the job find the time for leisure and other activities by cutting down on sleep, a study reports today. "We only have 24 hours in a day," says Mathias Basner, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine....
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...
William P. Houpt | Retired professor, 92
- 2007-04-16
William P. Houpt, 92, of Westtown, a retired West Chester University professor, administrator, and World War II documentary filmmaker, died March 27 at Paoli Hospital. Dr. Houpt grew up in Ventnor, N.J. After graduating from Atlantic City High School, he was a photographer and reporter at the Atlantic City Press...
Local colleges say student gambling not major problem here
- 2007-03-14
Gambling on campus has become a social event at fraternities and dormitories alike - even a "study break" for some - as one recent University of Pennsylvania graduate put it. Although gambling, particularly online, has grown rapidly in recent years, local universities say problems related to student gaming are...
