University of Pennsylvania

Lia Thomas took control in the final 100 yards of the 500-yard freestyle to make history Thursday as the first transgender woman to win an NCAA swimming championship

University of Pennsylvania transgender athlete Lia Thomas continued her strong showing at the Ivy League swimming championships, setting more records while claiming her second title two days.

The personal journeys of Penn’s Lia Thomas and Yale’s Iszac Henig, and their participation in the Ivy championships are the latest in an ongoing national conversation about the rules that govern the participation of transgender athletes in college athletics.

The dean of the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law said he would seek sanctions against tenured law professor Amy Wax over discriminatory remarks she made about the Asian American community.

Some of the country’s most exclusive universities have been accused.

The school’s incoming class of 2023 includes a record high of 52% women.

President Joe Biden nominated University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann to serve as United States ambassador to Germany.

New England Patriots linebacker Brandon Copeland is helping to change the “dumb jock” narrative. “Unfortunately, there is that negative stereotype of the quote-unquote ‘dumb jock,’” he said. In addition to his position with the Patriots, Copeland teaches finance at the University of Pennsylvania in the offseason. “I’m a New England Patriot right now, and when you look at the...

A new study by Temple and Penn researchers found that people are more attractive when masked in this age of coronavirus.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Vet School are studying whether dogs can use their keen sense of smell to identify COVID-19 patients.

The University of Pennsylvania has canceled the remainder of their women’s volleyball season after discovering what the university calls “offensive” posters in the team’s locker room.

The first data from an experiment in a California city where needy people get $500 a month from the government shows they spend most of it on things such as food, clothing and utility bills.

Last month, when billionaire philanthropist Robert Smith thrust historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) into the national spotlight by pledging to eliminate up to $40 million in student loans for Morehouse College’s almost 400 graduates, his gift was heralded as both historic and likely life-changing for those students. But student loan debt is merely a symptom of a systemic problem...

The 1,100-pound animals, taking 20-foot-plus strides, gallop on ankles which have been likened to glass. Suddenly, the entire sport of thoroughbred racing stands on fragile legs.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has issued a broader apology for claiming Native American ancestry amid a report that she identified herself as an “American Indian” on her registration for the State Bar of Texas. The broader apology comes after The Washington Post obtained and published Warren’s 1986 registration card for the State Bar of Texas, in which she identifies as “American...

A military base deep inside Saudi Arabia appears to be testing and possibly manufacturing ballistic missiles, experts and satellite images suggest, evidence of the type of weapons program it has long criticized its archrival Iran for possessing. Further raising the stakes for any such program are comments by Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who said last year...

The Chinese scientist who says he helped make the world’s first gene-edited babies veered off a traditional career path, keeping much of his research secret in pursuit of a larger goal — making history. He Jiankui’s outsized aspirations began to take shape in 2016, the year after another team of Chinese researchers sparked global debate with the revelation that they...

A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin girls born this month whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life. If true, it would be a profound leap of science and ethics. A U.S. scientist said he took part in the...

A Southern California man has pleaded not guilty to charges he murdered a gay University of Pennsylvania student in a hate crime. Samuel Woodward entered the plea Friday during a hearing in Santa Ana, California. The 21-year-old suspect is now being held without bail. Woodward is charged in the January stabbing death of college sophomore Blaze Bernstein.

People feel happier and less depressed when vacant lots in their neighborhood are cleared of trash or “greened up,” according to what might be a first-of-a-kind study of public space’s effects on mental health. NBC News reported that Philadelphia residents who lived near vacant lots that were filled in with trees and grass or simply cleaned up reported to University...