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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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Students: Drug access for poor
- 2006-11-17
A network of college students has launched a campaign to improve poor nations' access to drugs invented in the labs of leading U.S. research universities. Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, whose members met last month in Philadelphia, is calling for changes in the way universities license biomedical discoveries to drug...
MacArthur Foundation Provides $5.2 Million for Interdisciplinary Research on Transition to Adulthood; Funds Will Be Used to Identify Policies, Practices Needed to Facilitate Young People's Transition to Adulthood in the 21st Century.
- 2004-08-05
Byline: MacArthur Foundation CHICAGO, Aug. 5 AScribe Newswire -- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced a grant of $5.2 million over four years to the University of Pennsylvania in support of the Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood, which is...
MacArthur Foundation Provides $5.2 Million for Interdisciplinary Research on Transition to Adulthood; Grant Funds Will Be Used to Identify Policies, Practices Needed to Facilitate Young People's Transition to Adulthood in 21st Century.
- 2004-07-26
Byline: MacArthur Foundation CHICAGO, July 26 AScribe Newswire -- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced a grant of $5.2 million over four years to the University of Pennsylvania in support of the Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood, which is...
Nortel Networks transforms education experience with leading-edge optical solutions
- 2004-07-02
The University of Pennsylvania is strengthening the ability of its researchers to collaborate on next-generation Internet capabilities with their peers around the world through optical networking solutions specifically designed for education from Nortel Networks. The University's network transformation will provide its researchers with a high-performance, secure, and scalable network...
A Framework for Senior Executives to Meet the Challenge of Interdependent Critical Networks Under Threat: The Paris Initiative, "Anthrax and Beyond"
BNET
- 2004-07-01
The growing globalization of activities translates into large-scale area of operation, just-in-time processes and increasing interdependencies among national and international networks. Combined with the emergence of a wide spectrum of threats - sabotage, terrorism, disease, natural disasters - one faces a whole new arena of large-scale emerging risks and crises...
Nortel Networks transforms education experience with leading-edge optical solutions; University of Pennsylvania deploys Nortel Networks optical platform to support next generation internet, business continuity.
- 2004-06-30
M2 PRESSWIRE-30 June 2004-NORTEL NETWORKS: Nortel Networks transforms education experience with leading-edge optical solutions; University of Pennsylvania deploys Nortel Networks optical platform to support next generation internet, business continuityC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06302004 PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania is...
ADVA and Inrange Partner to Deploy Storage Networking Solution At the University of Pennsylvania.
- 2002-02-27
MARTINSRIED and MUNICH, GERMANY and RAMSEY, NEW JERSEY, Feb 27, 2002 ADVA Optical Networking (German Neuer Markt:ADV), a leading global provider of optical networking solutions, today announced that the Information Systems and Computing ISC division of the University of Pennsylvania has implemented an...
ADVA and Inrange Partner to Deploy Storage Networking Solution At the University of Pennsylvania
- 2002-02-27
Business & Technology Editors MARTINSRIED/MUNICH, Germany & RAMSEY, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 27, 2002 ADVA Optical Networking (German Neuer Markt:ADV), a leading global provider of optical networking solutions, today announced that the Information Systems and Computing ISC division of the University of Pennsylvania has implemented an advanced storage networking solution...
Broadband Architectures, ISP Business Plans, and Open Access
BNET
- 2000-09-25
This paper reviews broadband architectures, ISP service profiles to show that open access is technically feasible, if not always trivial. The decisive factor is planning. If networks are built with open access and interconnection in mind, it is, naturally, easier to implement open access. The paper argues that the FCC...
Universities support Internet 2
- 2000-04-01
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding a study by Drexel University, Philadelphia, to develop technologies that will support the agency's next-generation Internet program. Drexel will lead a consortium of researchers that includes the University of Pennsylvania, the City College of New York, Princeton University, MCP Hahnemann University,...
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