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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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Vendor Notebook - Siemens Healthcare to provide Penn with integrated service management
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CSC Renews its Contract with the University of Pennsylvania through 2012
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Remembering Marie Little
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Debate surrounds new prostate-cancer treatment
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Kissinger and Rubin to Discuss Global Challenges Facing Next President
- 2008-10-15
Who & What: On Wednesday, October 22, 2008, the Center for U.S. Global Engagement will continue its Impact '08 in Pennsylvania effort with a panel discussion on the global challenges facing the next president featuring former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and moderated by...
What has changed since Kerner Commission report?
- 2008-03-17
On Leap Day in 1968, the 11-member National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, led by Illinois Gov. Otto Kerner Jr., issued a report to President Lyndon B. Johnson attempting to explain to the nation the reasons behind the upsurge of race riots--from Watts to Birmingham to North Philadelphia--that had gripped...
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
- 2007-08-09
DR. MICHELLE R. HOWARD-VITAL has been appointed president of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. She had previously been interim chancellor of Winston-Salem State University. Howard-Vital earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Chicago and a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Blogs abuzz over Penn
- 2006-11-04
University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann has at least this consolation: It's not a video on YouTube. Three days after Halloween, the Penn president's annual costume party lived on yesterday, courtesy of the Internet and student Saad Saadi, whose photograph - with him dressed as a suicide bomber and her...
Jamieson, Kathleen Hall, ed. Electing the President 2004: The Insiders' View.(Book review)
- 2006-06-22
Jamieson, Kathleen Hall, ed. Electing the President 2004: The Insiders' View Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 251 pp., $19.95, ISBN 0-8122-1938-4 Publication Date: December 2005 Since 1992, the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania has sponsored a postpresidential election...
Phila. Award honors Levy as a visionary
- 2006-05-16
TONIGHT, PAUL LEVY, president of the Center City District, will receive the Philadelphia Award. The award, created 85 years ago by civic leader and philanthropist Edward Bok, honors a Philadelphia citizen who has done the most "to make the city and the region more prosperous, efficient and beautiful." ...
The PrivateBank adds two to board
- 2005-11-12
Parker B. Condie Jr., president of Coin Acceptors Inc., and R. Clark Amos, partner at Otis & Clark Properties, have been appointed to the board of directors of The PrivateBank. At Coin Acceptors, Condie directs the company's global presence in the design and manufacturing of automated payment system products. He...
Driscoll appoints Stulb president.(Brief Article)
- 2004-12-20
Staff L.F. Driscoll Co. is pleased to announce the appointment of Frank Mack Stulb as next president of the company. Mack, a resident of Whitemarsh, began working for L.F. Driscoll in 1984 as an estimator. Throughout the years,...
Thomas Jefferson University
- 2004-08-01
Robert Barchi took the president's post at Thomas Jefferson University PA, after having served as provost of the University of Pennsylvania.
Atop the Ivory Towers
- 2003-08-29
Rose, Peter Forward 08-29-2003 A few weeks ago I went out to dinner with Bob and Anita Summers, two distinguished economists who long taught at the University of Pennsylvania. Afterward they invited me back to their lovely home in the hills of...
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