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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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Bayhealth Medical Center and University of Pennsylvania Health System Sign Clinical Affiliation Agreement
- 2008-08-19
Affiliation Further Enhances Cancer Care for Delaware Residents DOVER, Del. -- Bayhealth Medical Center and the University of Pennsylvania Health System UPHS today announced that they have entered into an affiliation agreement to provide expanded cancer diagnosis, treatment, research and education to Delaware residents. Bayhealth Medical Center is the...
Penn gets $50 million gift for research
- 2008-06-04
The founder of Nine West Group Inc. and his wife yesterday gave the University of Pennsylvania a $50 million gift to support a new eight-story biomedical-research center. The gift from Jerome and Anne Fisher is the second largest ever to Penn's health system and will help in the growing field...
How & Why CUs Must Ramp Up Collaboration To Drive Growth
- 2008-04-21
In market in which the only thing increasing is expenses and competition and the only thing shrinking is margins, credit unions have no choice but to trust each other and collaborate to survive, according to a new report released by the Filene Research Institute. The report, titled “Connecting the...
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...
Weiss Tech House Announces PennVention 2008 Finalists
- 2008-04-10
11 Student Teams Vie to Win Top Prizes in Annual Student Invention Competition PHILADELPHIA -- The Weiss Tech House, a student-run hub of technological innovation at the University of Pennsylvania, announced today the 11 teams of student inventors that will compete in the final round of the fourth annual...
Robert M. Figlio, 69, criminologist, author
- 2008-03-25
Robert M. Figlio, 69, of Upper Pittsgrove, N.J., a criminologist, author, and crime-prevention consultant to industry and government, died of multiple myeloma on March 15 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Figlio was a founder, in 1988, of CAP Index Inc., an Exton firm that did pioneering...
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...
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...
Health alert is issued at Penn
- 2007-09-10
A University of Pennsylvania sophomore died yesterday of meningococcal meningitis, prompting school officials to issue a health alert for those who were in close contact with her. Anne Ryan, 19, was hospitalized Saturday afternoon in critical condition, and died early yesterday morning at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania,...
In July, Illumina announced a collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania's Institute of Translational Medicine and Therapeutics and the National Heart
- 2007-08-31
In July, Illumina announced a collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania's Institute of Translational Medicine and Therapeutics and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's Candidate-Gene Association Resource Consortium to develop a customized chip for vascular disease.
