The University of Pennsylvania is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,United States. It is one of nine colonial colleges and was chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence when Benjamin Franklin,the university's founder and first president,advocated for an educational institution that trained leaders in academia,commerce,and public service. Penn identifies as the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,though this representation is challenged by other universities since Franklin first convened the board of trustees in 1749,arguably making it the fifth-oldest.
The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania,a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. Penn Carey Law offers the degrees of Juris Doctor (J.D.),Master of Laws (LL.M.),Master of Comparative Laws (LL.C.M.),Master in Law (M.L.),and Doctor of the Science of Law (S.J.D.).
The Wharton School is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn),a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia. Established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton,a co-founder of Bethlehem Steel,the Wharton School is the world's oldest collegiate business school.
Penn Museum,formally known as The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,is an archaeology and anthropology museum at the University of Pennsylvania. It is located on Penn's campus in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia,at the intersection of 33rd and South Streets. Housing over 1.3 million artifacts,the museum features one of the most comprehensive collections of Middle and Near-Eastern art in the world.
The Daily Pennsylvanian,Inc. is the independent student media organization of the University of Pennsylvania. The DP,Inc. publishes The Daily Pennsylvanian newspaper,34th Street magazine,and Under the Button satirical publication, as well as four newsletters:Daybreak,The Toast,Quaker Nation,and Penn,Unbuttoned.
University City is the easternmost portion of West Philadelphia,encompassing several Philadelphia universities. It is situated directly across the Schuylkill River from Center City.
Amy Gutmann is an American academic and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Germany from 2022 to 2024. She was previously the president of the University of Pennsylvania from 2004 to 2022,the longest-serving president in the history of the University of Pennsylvania. She currently serves as the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science,School of Arts and Sciences,and Professor of Communication,Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Perelman School of Medicine,commonly known as Penn Med,is the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania,one of seven Ivy League medical schools in the United States. The medical school is based in Philadelphia. Founded in 1765,it was the first medical school in the United States.
Anne Norton is an American political scientist. She is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Annenberg School for Communication is the communication school at the University of Pennsylvania. The school was established in 1958 by Wharton School alum Walter Annenberg as the Annenberg School of Communications. The name was changed to its current title in 1990.
University of Pennsylvania student life includes numerous events and social gatherings around campus,with some sponsored by the college.
Dorothy E. Roberts is an American sociologist,law professor,and social justice advocate. She is the Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor,George A. Weiss University Professor,and inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania. She writes and lectures on gender,race,and class in legal issues. Her focuses include reproductive health,child welfare,and bioethics. In 2023,she was elected to the American Philosophical Society. She has published over 80 articles and essays in books and scholarly journals,including Harvard Law Review,Yale Law Journal,and Stanford Law Review.
Mary Elizabeth Magill is an American legal scholar and academic administrator. She served as the 9th president of the University of Pennsylvania from 2022 to 2023,executive vice president and provost of the University of Virginia from 2019 to 2022,and dean of Stanford Law School from 2012 to 2019.
The Friars Senior Society of the University of Pennsylvania,commonly nicknamed Friars,is the oldest undergraduate secret society at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. Founded in 1899,it recognizes student leaders who have made a significant contribution to the university in all areas of campus life. The organization remains the most active secret senior society at the university with over 2,000 alumni in the United States and 24 countries throughout the world.
Lawrence A. Alexander is an American legal scholar focusing on constitutional law,criminal law,and jurisprudence. He is the Warren Distinguished Professor at the University of San Diego School of Law. He has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School,the University of Texas School of Law,and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The University of Pennsylvania College of Arts &Sciences (CAS) is the oldest undergraduate college at the University of Pennsylvania,a private Ivy League university,situated on the university's main campus in University City,Philadelphia. The college traces its roots to the establishment of a secondary school known as Unnamed Charity School in 1740. In 1749,Benjamin Franklin and twenty-one leading citizens of Philadelphia officially founded a secondary school named the Academy of Philadelphia. In 1755,the secondary school was expanded to include a collegiate division known as the College of Philadelphia. The secondary and collegiate institutions were known collectively as The Academy and College of Philadelphia. The college received its charter from Thomas Penn and Richard Penn. Penn CAS is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-oldest chartered college in the United States.
Claire Finkelstein is the Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School,and the Director of its Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law.
Anthea Deidre Butler is an African-American professor of religion and chair of the University of Pennsylvania Department of Religious Studies,where she is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought.
Mackenzie Fierceton is an American activist and graduate student. Raised in Chesterfield,Missouri,she attended Whitfield School in Creve Coeur,the University of Pennsylvania for a bachelor's in political science and master's in social work,and is a current graduate student at the University of Oxford.
The University of Pennsylvania is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,U.S. Its history began when in 1740,when a group of Philadelphians organized to erect a great preaching hall for George Whitefield,a traveling evangelist. The building was designed and constructed by Edmund Woolley and was the largest building in Philadelphia at the time,drawing thousands of people the first time in which it was preached. In the fall of 1749,Ben Franklin circulated a pamphlet,"Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania," his vision for what he called a "Public Academy of Philadelphia". On June 16,1755,the College of Philadelphia was chartered,paving the way for the addition of undergraduate instruction.
