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{{Short description|Private university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.}}
{{Infobox university
 | name                   = University of Pennsylvania
 | former_names           = Academy and Charitable School in the Province of Pennsylvania (1751–1755)<br />College of Philadelphia (1755–1779, 1789–1791)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/1700s/penn1700s.html |title=Penn in the 18th Century |website=upenn.edu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060428155156/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/1700s/penn1700s.html |archive-date=April 28, 2006 |access-date=July 20, 2021}}</ref><br />University of the State of Pennsylvania (1779{{refn|group=note|It was not until 1785 that the name was made official as between 1779 and 1785 name was simply "University" in Philadelphia—see {{cite web |url=https://secretary.upenn.edu/trustees-governance/statutes-trustees |title=Statutes of the Trustees |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=September 12, 2022}}}}–1791)
 | image                  = UPenn shield with banner.svg
 | image_upright          = 0.7
 | image_alt              = Arms of the University of Pennsylvania
 | caption                = Coat of arms
 | latin_name             = Universitas Pennsylvaniensis
 | motto                  = {{lang|la|Leges sine moribus vanae}} ([[Social:Latin language|Latin]])
 | mottoeng               = "Laws without morals are useless"
 | established            = {{start date and age|1740|11|14}}{{refn|group=note|name="founding_note"|The university officially uses 1740 as its founding date and has since 1899. The ideas and intellectual inspiration for the academic institution stem from 1749, with a pamphlet published by [[Biography:Benjamin Franklin|Benjamin Franklin]] (1705/1706–1790). When Franklin's institution was established, it inhabited a schoolhouse built on November 14, 1740, for another school, which never came to practical fruition.<ref name="archives.upenn.edu">{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history |title=Penn History Exhibits |publisher=University Archives and Records Center |access-date=January 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190822113907/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history |archive-date=August 22, 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Penn archivist Mark Frazier Lloyd noted, "In 1899, UPenn's Trustees adopted a resolution that established 1740 as the founding date, but good cases may be made for 1749, when Franklin first convened the Trustees, or 1751, when the first classes were taught at the affiliated secondary school for boys, Academy of Philadelphia, or 1755, when Penn obtained its collegiate charter to add a post-secondary institution, the College of Philadelphia."<ref name="upenn.edu">{{cite web |url=http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/node/2231 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603231438/http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/node/2231 |archive-date=June 3, 2011 |title=A Penn Trivial Pursuit – Penn Current |date=June 3, 2011}}</ref> Princeton's library presents another diplomatically-phrased view.<ref name="princeton.edu">{{cite web |url=http://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/topics/older.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030319132644/http://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/topics/older.shtml |archive-date=March 19, 2003 |title=Seeley G. Mudd Library: FAQ Princeton vs. University of Pennsylvania: Which is the Older Institution?|date=March 19, 2003}}</ref>}}
 | type                   = Private research university
 | accreditation          = [[Organization:Middle States Commission on Higher Education|MSCHE]]
 | academic_affiliations  = {{hlist
|AAU
|COFHE
|NAICU
|URA
}}
 | endowment              = $21.0 billion (2023)<ref name = endowment>As of June 30, 2023. {{cite report |url=https://investments.upenn.edu/about-us |title=About Us Penn Office of Investments |publisher=Penn Office of Investments |date=June 30, 2023 |access-date=October 17, 2023 |archive-date=October 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231019034827/https://investments.upenn.edu/about-us |url-status=live }}</ref>
 | budget                 = $4.4 billion (2024)<ref>{{cite web |title=Operating Budget |url=https://budget.upenn.edu/operating-budget/ |publisher=Office of Budget and Management Analysis, University of Pennsylvania |access-date=2023-12-10 |archive-date=October 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231009003416/https://budget.upenn.edu/operating-budget/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
 | founder                = [[Biography:Benjamin Franklin|Benjamin Franklin]]
 | president              = J. Larry Jameson (interim)<!--J. Larry Jameson has been chosen as interim president (https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/12/penn-larry-jameson-interim-president).-->
 | provost                = John L. Jackson Jr.
 | academic_staff         = 4,793 (2018)<ref name="Penn: Penn Facts">{{cite web |title=Penn: Penn Facts |url=http://www.upenn.edu/about/facts |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=January 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023185249/https://www.upenn.edu/about/facts |archive-date=October 23, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 | students               = {{gaps|23,374}} (Fall 2022)<ref name="CDS">{{cite web |title=Common Data Set 2022–2023 |url=https://ira.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/UPenn-Common-Data-Set-2022-23-Jul-2023.pdf |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=Sep 12, 2023 |archive-date=Aug 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230803133606/https://ira.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/UPenn-Common-Data-Set-2022-23-Jul-2023.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>
 | total_staff            = {{gaps|39,859}} (Fall 2020; includes health system)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.upenn.edu/about/facts |title=Facts |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=February 1, 2020 |archive-date=January 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200124040550/https://www.upenn.edu/about/facts |url-status=live}}</ref>
 | undergrad              = 9,760 (Fall 2022)<ref name="CDS"/>
 | postgrad               = {{gaps|13,614}} (Fall 2022)<ref name="CDS"/>
 | city                   = Philadelphia
 | state                  = Pennsylvania
 | country                = United States
 | coordinates            = {{Coord|39.95|-75.19|region:US-PA_type:edu|display=title,inline}}
 | campus                 = Large city
 | campus_size            = {{convert|1085|acre|ha}} (total);<br /> {{convert|299|acre|ha}}, University City campus; <br />{{convert|694|acre|ha}}, New Bolton Center; <br />{{convert|92|acre|ha}}, Morris Arboretum
 | free_label2            = Newspaper
 | free2                  = ''The Daily Pennsylvanian''
 | sporting_affiliations  = {{hlist|NCAA Division I FCS – Ivy League|Philadelphia Big 5|City 6|IRA|EARC|EAWRC}}
 | colors                 = {{college color list|team=Penn Quakers}} <!-- same as athletics, inserted automatically -->
 | nickname               = Quakers
 | mascot                 = The Quaker
 | website                = {{Official URL}}
 | logo                   = University of Pennsylvania wordmark.svg
 | logo_upright           = .7
 | free_label             = Other campuses
 | free                   = {{wipe|San Francisco}}

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The '''University of Pennsylvania''' ('''Penn'''<ref>[https://branding.web-resources.upenn.edu The registered trademark as the primary substitute for using the University's full name and part of official brand] ({{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220418015150/https://branding.web-resources.upenn.edu/ |date=April 18, 2022 }}), accessed June 9, 2021</ref> or '''UPenn'''<ref>[https://thepenngazette.com/penn-v-upenn Permissible in situations where it may help to distinguish Penn from other universities within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and used as part of email address] ({{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104102013/https://thepenngazette.com/penn-v-upenn |date=November 4, 2021 }}), accessed June 9, 2021</ref>) is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is one of nine colonial colleges and was chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence when [[Biography:Benjamin Franklin|Benjamin Franklin]], the university's founder and first president, advocated for an educational institution that trained leaders in academia, commerce, and [[Social:Public service|public service]]. Penn identifies as the fourth oldest institution of higher education in the United States, though this representation is challenged by other universities, as Franklin first convened the board of trustees in 1749, arguably making it the fifth oldest institution of higher education in the U.S.{{refn|group=note|name="founding_note"}}

The university has four undergraduate schools and 12 graduate and professional schools. Schools enrolling undergraduates include the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Wharton School, and the School of Nursing. Among its highly ranked graduate schools are its law school, whose first professor James Wilson participated in writing the first draft of the U.S. Constitution, its medical school, which was the first medical school established in [[Earth:North America|North America]], and Wharton, the nation's first collegiate business school. Penn's [[Finance:Financial endowment|endowment]] is $20.7 billion, making it the sixth-wealthiest private academic institution in the nation as of 2022. In 2021, it ranked 4th among American universities in research expenditures according to the [[Organization:National Science Foundation|National Science Foundation]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Universities Report Largest Growth in Federally Funded R&D Expenditures since FY 2011 {{!}} NSF - National Science Foundation |url=https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf23303 |access-date=2023-12-28 |website=ncses.nsf.gov}}</ref>

The University of Pennsylvania's main campus is located in the University City neighborhood of West Philadelphia, and is centered around College Hall. Notable campus landmarks include Houston Hall, the first modern student union, and Franklin Field, the nation's first dual-level college football stadium and the nation's longest-standing NCAA Division I college football stadium in continuous operation.<ref>[https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2022-07-26/these-are-10-oldest-stadiums-division-i-college-football "These are the 10 oldest stadiums in Division I college football"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230312232120/https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2022-07-26/these-are-10-oldest-stadiums-division-i-college-football |date=March 12, 2023 }}, NCAA, July 26, 2022</ref> The university's athletics program, the Penn Quakers, fields varsity teams in 33 sports as a member of NCAA Division I's Ivy League conference.

Since its founding, Penn alumni, trustees, and faculty have included 8 signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, 7 signers of the Constitution, 3 Presidents of the United States, 3 U.S. Supreme Court justices, 32 U.S. senators, 163 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, 19 U.S. Cabinet Secretaries, 46 governors, 28 State Supreme Court justices, and 9 foreign [[Social:Head of state|heads of state]]. Alumni and faculty include 39 Nobel laureates,<ref name=":1">Nobel Prize Awarded to Covid Vaccine Pioneers https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/health/nobel-prize-medicine.html?smid=nytcore-android-share {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231004182045/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/health/nobel-prize-medicine.html?smid=nytcore-android-share |date=October 4, 2023 }} accessed October 2, 2023</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Congratulations to Claudia Goldin, who was awarded the 2023 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences today |url=https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/news/congratulations-claudia-goldin-who-was-awarded-2023-nobel-memorial-prize-economic-sciences |date=October 9, 2023 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231014082508/https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/news/congratulations-claudia-goldin-who-was-awarded-2023-nobel-memorial-prize-economic-sciences |url-status=live }}</ref> 4 Turing Award winners,<ref>https://www.turing.ac.uk/search/node?keys=University%20of%20Pennsylvania%20&page=1%2C0 access date September 10, 2023</ref> and a Fields Medalist.<ref name="Charles W Bachman">{{cite web |title=Charles W Bachman |url=https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/bachman_9385610.cfm |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website=A.M Turing Award |language=en |archive-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002063303/https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/bachman_9385610.cfm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Who's Who in New Zealand, 1991 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6x8OAQAAMAAJ |access-date=July 29, 2015 |last1=Lambert |first1=Max |year=1991 |edition=12th |publisher=Octopus |location=Auckland |page=331 |isbn=9780790001302 |archive-date=December 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231219163607/https://books.google.com/books?id=6x8OAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk">{{Cite web|title=Vaughan Jones - University of St. Andrews|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Jones_Vaughan/|access-date=September 9, 2020|archive-date=August 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805200102/https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Jones_Vaughan/|url-status=live}}</ref> Penn has graduated 32 Rhodes Scholars<ref>{{cite web |title=Colleges and Universities with U.S. Rhodes Scholarship Winners {{!}} The Rhodes Scholarships |url=https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/office-of-the-american-secretary/us-winners/colleges-and-universities-of-all-us-rhodes-scholars-over-time/ |access-date=February 5, 2023 |website=www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk |language=en |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807160702/https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/office-of-the-american-secretary/us-winners/colleges-and-universities-of-all-us-rhodes-scholars-over-time/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and 21 Marshall Scholars.<ref>{{cite web |title=Two Penn seniors named 2022 Marshall Scholars {{!}} Penn CURF |url=https://curf.upenn.edu/content/marshall-2021-0#:~:text=Penn%20has%20had%2021%20Marshall,in%20the%20past%20four%20years. |access-date=February 5, 2023 |website=curf.upenn.edu |archive-date=April 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220427052017/https://curf.upenn.edu/content/marshall-2021-0#:~:text=Penn%20has%20had%2021%20Marshall,in%20the%20past%20four%20years. |url-status=live }}</ref> As of 2022, Penn has the largest number of undergraduate alumni who are billionaires of all colleges and universities (17, counting only Penn's four undergraduate schools).<ref>https://poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/news/this-school-has-the-most-billionaire-alumni/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230903061806/https://poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/news/this-school-has-the-most-billionaire-alumni/ |date=September 3, 2023 }} and https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2022/10/02/billionaire-alma-maters-the-11-most-popular-colleges-among-americas-richest/?sh=9d31b4b4a6cd {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230903060900/https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2022/10/02/billionaire-alma-maters-the-11-most-popular-colleges-among-americas-richest/?sh=9d31b4b4a6cd |date=September 3, 2023 }} accessed September 11, 2023</ref> Penn alumni have won (a) 53 Tony Awards, (b) 17 Grammy Awards, (c) 25 Emmy Awards, and (d) 13 Academy Awards. At least 43 different Penn alumni have earned 81 Olympic medals (26 gold),<ref name="pennolympics">{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/notables/athletics/olympics/athletes |title=Penn in the Olympics |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=August 12, 2021 |archive-date=August 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210821044816/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/notables/athletics/olympics/athletes |url-status=live }}</ref>{{refn|group=note|See list of University of Pennsylvania people athletics section for list of Penn Olympic medal winners, replete with hyperlinks.}} 2 Penn alumni have been [[Organization:NASA|NASA]] [[Astronaut|astronaut]]s,<ref name="garrettreisman.com">https://www.garrettreisman.com/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013155905/https://www.garrettreisman.com/ |date=October 13, 2023 }} and https://news.seas.upenn.edu/pieces-of-penn-history-return-from-space/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017192925/https://news.seas.upenn.edu/pieces-of-penn-history-return-from-space/ |date=October 17, 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Biographical Data|url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/bluford_guion.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=October 14, 2023|archive-date=February 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212170249/https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/bluford_guion.pdf}}</ref> and 5 Penn alumni have been awarded the Medal of Honor.<ref name="Congressional Medals of Honor, Reci">{{cite web |last1=Ahern |first1=Joseph-James |last2=Hawley |first2=Scott W. |title=Congressional Medals of Honor, Recipients from the Civil War • University Archives and Records Center |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/notables/awards/medal-of-honor |publisher=Penn University Archives and Records Center |date=January 2011 |access-date=October 9, 2020 |archive-date=January 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123201154/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/notables/awards/medal-of-honor |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="na" />

==History==
===Origins of the college===
[[File:Joseph Siffrein Duplessis - Benjamin Franklin - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|Benjamin Franklin, founder of the University of Pennsylvania, was the primary founder, benefactor, and a president of the board of trustees for the Academy and College of Philadelphia, which merged with the University of the State of Pennsylvania to form the University of Pennsylvania in 1791.]]
In 1740, a group of Philadelphians organized to erect a great preaching hall for George Whitefield, a traveling [[Religion:Evangelism|evangelist]] who toured the American colonies delivering open-air sermons.<ref>see second footnote 9 in Extracts from the Benjamin Franklin published Pennsylvania Gazette, (January 3 to December 25, 1740) – Founders Online https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-02-02-0065 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230826064004/https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-02-02-0065 |date=August 26, 2023 }} "Note: The annotations to this document, and any other modern editorial content, are copyright  the American Philosophical Society and Yale University. All rights reserved."</ref> 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.<ref name="MontgomeryHistory">{{cite book|title=A History of the University of Pennsylvania from Its Foundation to A. D. 1770|publisher=George W. Jacobs & Co.|author=Montgomery, Thomas Harrison|year=1900|location=Philadelphia|lccn=00003240|title-link=:File:History of the University of Pennsylvania - Montgomery (1900).djvu}}</ref>{{rp|26}} The preaching hall was initially intended to also serve as a charity school, but a lack of funds forced plans for the chapel and school to be suspended.

According to Franklin's autobiography, it was in 1743 when he first had the idea to establish an academy, "thinking the Rev. Richard Peters a fit person to superintend such an institution". Peters declined a casual inquiry from Franklin, but was one of Penn's founding trustees from 1749 to 1776, president of the board of trustees from 1756 to 1764, and treasurer of the board of trustees from 1769 to 1770.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/richard-peters/ |title=Richard Peters |publisher=Archives.upenn.edu |date=January 24, 2022 |access-date=May 31, 2022 |archive-date=June 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220630064242/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/richard-peters/ |url-status=live }}</ref>).

Six years later, Franklin again contacted Peters and others.<ref name="MontgomeryHistory"/>{{rp|30}} In the fall of 1749, Franklin circulated a pamphlet, "[[commons:File:Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania (UC) - Benjamin Franklin (1931 1749).djvu|Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania]]", his vision for what he called a "Public Academy of Philadelphia",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/genlhistory/brief.html|title=A Brief History of the University, University of Pennsylvania Archives|first=Steven Morgan|last=Friedman|publisher=Archives.upenn.edu|access-date=December 9, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102143449/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/genlhistory/brief.html|archive-date=January 2, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> which argued for establishing an institution that would provide higher education to its citizens.

The 1749 proposal was seen as innovative at the time, and Franklin organized 24 trustees to help guide the institution he envisioned. The group acquired a dormant building after its owners asked Franklin's group to assume their debts and, accordingly, their inactive trusts. On February 1, 1750, a new board of trustees took over the building and trusts of the old board. On August 13, 1751, the Academy of Philadelphia, using the great hall at 4th and Arch Streets, was established and began taking in its first secondary students. A charity school also was chartered on July 13, 1753,<ref name="WoodHistory"/>{{rp|12}} by the intentions of the original donors, although it lasted only a few years. On June 16, 1755, the College of Philadelphia was chartered, paving the way for the addition of undergraduate instruction.<ref name="WoodHistory"/>{{rp|13}} All three schools shared the same board of trustees and were considered part of the same institution.<ref name=autogenerated1/> The first commencement exercises were held on May 17, 1757.<ref name="WoodHistory"/>{{rp|14}}

The University of Pennsylvania considers itself the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, though this is contested by [[Organization:Princeton University|Princeton]] and [[Organization:Columbia University|Columbia]] Universities.{{refn|group=note| Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution. The College of Philadelphia, which became Penn, [[Organization:Princeton University|College of New Jersey]], which became Princeton University, and [[Organization:Columbia University|King's College]], which later became Columbia College and ultimately Columbia University, all originated within a few years of each other. After initially designating 1750 as its founding date, Penn later considered 1749 to be its founding date for more than a century with Penn alumni observing a centennial celebration in 1849. In 1895, several elite universities in the United States convened in New York City as the Intercollegiate Commission at the invitation of John J. McCook, a Union Army officer during the American Civil War and member of Princeton's board of trustees who chaired its Committee on Academic Dress. The primary purpose of the conference was to standardize American academic regalia, which was accomplished through the adoption of the Intercollegiate Code on Academic Costume. This formalized protocol included a provision that established academic processions and placed visiting dignitaries and other officials in the order of their institution's founding dates. The following year, Penn's ''The Alumni Register'' magazine, published by the General Alumni Society, began a campaign to retroactively revise the university's founding date to 1740, to become older than Princeton, which had been chartered in 1746. Three years later in 1899, the university's board of trustees acceded to this alumni initiative and officially changed its founding date from 1749 to 1740, altering its rank in academic processions and offering the informal bragging rights associated with the age-based hierarchy in academia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0902/thomas.html|title=Gazette: Building Penn's Brand (Sept/Oct 2002)|website=www.upenn.edu|access-date=January 25, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051120020503/http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0902/thomas.html|archive-date=November 20, 2005|url-status=live}}</ref> Princeton implicitly challenges this rationale,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.princeton.edu/meet-princeton/history|title=History|website=Princeton University|access-date=May 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190805225330/https://www.princeton.edu/meet-princeton/history|archive-date=August 5, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.princeton.edu/main/about/history/american-revolution/ |title=Princeton University in the American Revolution |publisher=Princeton University |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403053852/http://www.princeton.edu/main/about/history/american-revolution/ |archive-date=April 3, 2016}}</ref> Further complicating the comparison, a [[Organization:University of Edinburgh|University of Edinburgh]]-educated [[Religion:Presbyterianism|Presbyterian]] minister from Scotland, William Tennent, and his son Gilbert Tennent operated a Log College in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, from 1726 until 1746; some have suggested a connection between it and Princeton because five members of Princeton's first Board of Trustees were affiliated with it, including Gilbert Tennent, William Tennent, Jr., and Samuel Finley, the latter of whom later became president of Princeton. All 12 members of Princeton's first Board of Trustees were leaders from the New Side or [[Religion:Old and New Light|New Light]] wing of the Presbyterian Church in the New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania areas.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/topics/founders.shtml |title=Who founded Princeton University and when? |publisher=Princeton University |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105013448/http://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/topics/founders.shtml |archive-date=November 5, 2013}}</ref> This antecedent relationship, when considered a formal lineage with institutional continuity, would justify placing Princeton's founding date back to 1726, which would make it earlier than Penn's 1740 founding. However, Princeton has not asserted this, and a Princeton historian says that "the facts do not warrant" such an interpretation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://etcweb1.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/log_college.html|title=Log College |publisher=Princeton University |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051117052303/http://etcweb1.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/log_college.html|archive-date=November 17, 2005|url-status=dead|access-date=January 30, 2006}}</ref> Columbia also implicitly challenges Penn's use of either 1750, 1749 or 1740 as its founding date since it claims to be the fifth-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States after [[Organization:Harvard University|Harvard]], William & Mary, [[Organization:Yale University|Yale]], and [[Organization:Princeton University|Princeton]] based on its charter date of 1754 and Penn's charter date of 1755.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.columbia.edu/content/history|title=History – Columbia University in the City of New York|website=www.columbia.edu|access-date=May 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190517175032/https://www.columbia.edu/content/history|archive-date=May 17, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Academic histories of American higher education typically list Penn variously as either the nation's fifth or sixth-oldest institution of higher learning in the nation after Princeton and immediately before or after Columbia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dmr.bsu.edu/digital/collection/ConspectusH/id/345|title=COH-03-057_Page-45|website=dmr.bsu.edu |access-date=May 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200122150848/https://dmr.bsu.edu/digital/collection/ConspectusH/id/345|archive-date=January 22, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/9120/article_RI234246.pdf?sequence=5 |title=American Colonial Colleges |website=scholarship.rice.edu |format=PDF |access-date=May 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116181127/http://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/9120/article_RI234246.pdf?sequence=5 |archive-date=January 16, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/3878/gslisoccasionalpv00000i00140.pdf?sequence=1 |title=The History of American Colleges and Their Libraries in The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries |last=Zubatsky |first=David |date=2007 |website=ideals.illinois.edu |format=PDF |access-date=May 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028044908/https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/3878/gslisoccasionalpv00000i00140.pdf?sequence=1 |archive-date=October 28, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Even Penn's account of its early history agrees that the Academy of Philadelphia did not add the College of Philadelphia until 1755, but university officials continue to make it their practice to assert their fourth-oldest place in academic processions. Other American universities that began in the colonial era, such as St. John's College, which was founded as King William's School in 1696, and the [[Organization:University of Delaware|University of Delaware]], which was founded as the Free Academy in 1743, choose to utilize the dates they became institutions of higher learning. Penn history professor Edgar Potts Cheyney was a member of the Penn class of 1883 who played a leading role in the 1896–1899 alumni campaign to change the university's formal founding date.  According to Cheyney's later recollection, the university considered its founding date to be 1749 for almost a century. However, it was changed with good reason, and primarily due to a publication about the university issued by the U.S. Commissioner of Education written by Francis Newton Thorpe, a fellow alumnus, and colleague in the Penn history department. The year 1740 is the date of the establishment of the university's first educational trust. Cheyney states that "it might be considered a lawyer's date; it is a familiar legal practice in considering the date of any institution to seek out the oldest trust it administers". He also points out that Harvard's founding date is also the year in which the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of {{wipe|Massachusetts}} at the time of its founding, resolved to establish a fund in a year's time for a school or college. Princeton claims its founding date is 1746, the date of its first charter. However, the exact words of the charter are unknown, the number and names of the trustees in the charter are unknown, and no known original of the charter is known to exist. Except for Columbia University, the majority of colonial-era colleges and universities do not have clear-cut dates of foundation.<ref>Edgar Potts Cheyney, "History of the University of Pennsylvania: 1740–1940", Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1940: pp. 45–52.</ref>}}

Unlike the other colonial colleges that existed in 1749, including [[Organization:Harvard University|Harvard]], William & Mary, [[Organization:Yale University|Yale]], and the [[Organization:Princeton University|College of New Jersey]], Franklin's new school did not focus exclusively on educating clergy. He advocated what was then an innovative concept of higher education, which taught both the ornamental knowledge of the arts and the practical skills necessary for making a living and performing public service. The proposed program of study could have become the nation's first modern liberal arts curriculum, although it was never implemented because Anglican priest William Smith, who became the first [[Social:Provost (education)|provost]], and other trustees strongly preferred the traditional curriculum.<ref name="Penn's Heritage">{{cite web|title=Penn's Heritage |url=http://www.upenn.edu/about/history |website=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=May 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422090345/http://www.upenn.edu/about/history|archive-date=April 22, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>N. Landsman, From Colonials to Provincials: American Thought and Culture, 1680–1760 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997), p. 30.</ref>

Franklin assembled a board of trustees from among Philadelphia's leading citizens, the first such non-sectarian board in the nation. At the first meeting of the board of trustees on November 13, 1749, the issue of where to locate the school was a prime concern. Although a lot across Sixth Street from the old Pennsylvania State House, later renamed and famously known since 1776 as Independence Hall, was offered without cost by James Logan, its owner, the trustees realized that the building erected in 1740 by Edmund Woolley for George Whitefield,<ref>Extracts from the Pennsylvania Gazette, (January 3 to December 25, 1740) – Founders Online https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-02-02-0065 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230826064004/https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-02-02-0065 |date=August 26, 2023 }}</ref> which was still vacant, was an even more preferable site.

The institution of higher learning was named and known as the College of Philadelphia from 1755 to 1779. In 1779, not trusting then provost William Smith's Loyalist tendencies, the revolutionary State Legislature created a university, and in 1785 the legislature changed name to University of the State of Pennsylvania.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web|title=Penn in the 18th Century, University of Pennsylvania Archives|url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/1700s/penn1700s.html|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|access-date=April 29, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060428155156/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/1700s/penn1700s.html|archive-date=April 28, 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{refn|group=note|"...(d) On November 27, 1779, the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania passed an act for the establishment of a University incorporating the rights and powers of the College, Academy, and Charitable School. This was the first designation of an institution in the United States as a University;
(e) On September 22, 1785, an act was passed naming the University the University of the State of Pennsylvania..." See {{cite web |url=https://secretary.upenn.edu/trustees-governance/statutes-trustees#:~:text=(g)%20On%20September%2030%2C,time%20to%20time%2C%20is%20referred |title=Statues of the Trustees |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=September 12, 2022}}}} The result was a schism, with Smith continuing to operate an attenuated version of the College of Philadelphia. In 1791, the legislature issued a new charter, merging the two institutions into a new University of Pennsylvania with twelve men from each institution serving on the new board of trustees.<ref name=autogenerated1/>

Although Penn began operating as an academy or secondary school in 1751 and obtained its collegiate charter in 1755, it initially designated 1750 as its founding date. Sometime later in its early history, Penn began naming 1749 as its founding date, which it continued to reference as the founding date for over a century, including at a centennial celebration in 1849.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/1700s/trustees.html|title=Penn Trustees 1749–1800|publisher=University of Pennsylvania University Archives|access-date=July 23, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121125023024/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/1700s/trustees.html|archive-date=November 25, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1899, the board of trustees voted to adjust the founding date earlier again, this time to 1740, the date of "the creation of the earliest of the many educational trusts the University has taken upon itself", according to a book on the university's history.<ref>{{cite journal|title=History of the University of Pennsylvania 1740–1940|last=Cheyney|first=Edward Potts|journal=History of the University of Pennsylvania|year=1940|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|location=Philadelphia|pages=46–48|url=http://repository.upenn.edu/penn_history/5/|access-date=August 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524003401/http://repository.upenn.edu/penn_history/5/|archive-date=May 24, 2011|url-status=live}} Cheyney was a Penn professor and alumnus from the class of 1883 who advocated the change in Penn's founding date in 1899 to appear older than both Princeton and Columbia. The explanation, "It will have been noted that 1740 is the date of the creation of the earliest of the many educational trusts the University has taken upon itself," is Professor Cheyney's justification (pp. 47–48) for Penn retroactively changing its founding date, not language used by the Board of Trustees.</ref> The board of trustees voted in response to a three-year campaign by Penn's General Alumni Society to retroactively revise the university's founding date to 1740 for a number of reasons, including to appear older than Princeton University, which had been chartered in 1746.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/notables/alumpres.html|title=Presidents of Penn Alumni|website=www.archives.upenn.edu|access-date=August 24, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160719203832/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/notables/alumpres.html|archive-date=July 19, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

===First university===
[[File:Admission ticket to John Morgan lecture 1765.jpg|thumb|A 1765 admission ticket to "A Course of Lectures" given by Dr. John Morgan, the founder and first professor of medicine at Penn's Medical School]]
The University of Pennsylvania considers itself the first university in the United States with both undergraduate and graduate studies, though that claim is contested by other universities. Penn has two claims to being the first university in the United States, according to the former university archives director Mark Frazier Lloyd: 
: (1) the 1765 founding of the first medical school in America<ref name=WDL1>{{cite web|title=University of Pennsylvania|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9432|publisher=[[World Digital Library]]|access-date=February 14, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101150332/http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9432/|archive-date=January 1, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> made Penn the first institution to offer both "undergraduate" and professional education ("the 'de facto' position")
: (2) the 1779 charter made it the first American institution of higher learning to take the name of "University" ("the 'de jure' position").<ref name="first university">{{cite web|url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/genlhistory/firstuniv.html|title=The University of Pennsylvania: America's First University|publisher=University Archives and Records Center, University of Pennsylvania|access-date=April 29, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060711051514/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/genlhistory/firstuniv.html|archive-date=July 11, 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Wiser Archive">{{cite news |title=William Rotch Wister |website=University Archives and Records Center |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/william-rotch-wister/ |access-date=August 20, 2022 |archive-date=January 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123203231/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/william-rotch-wister/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>See also {{cite web |url=https://secretary.upenn.edu/trustees-governance/statutes-trustees#:~:text=(g)%20On%20September%2030%2C,time%20to%20time%2C%20is%20referred |title=Statutes of the Trustees |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=September 12, 2022 |archive-date=March 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190326230120/https://secretary.upenn.edu/trustees-governance/statutes-trustees#:~:text=(g)%20On%20September%2030%2C,time%20to%20time%2C%20is%20referred |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Original campus===
[[File:PA-Philadelphia-Penn.jpg|thumb|A {{circa|1780}} sketch of the Academy and College of Philadelphia when its first dormitory (on right) was built]]
The Academy of Philadelphia, a secondary school for boys, began operations in 1751 in an unused church assembly hall building at 4th and Arch Streets, which had sat unfinished and dormant for over a decade. Upon receiving a collegiate charter in 1755, the first classes for the College of Philadelphia were taught in the same building, in many cases to the same boys who had already graduated from The Academy of Philadelphia.

===Campus as capital of the United States===
When the British abandoned Philadelphia during the Philadelphia campaign in the American Revolutionary War, College Hall, the college's only building at the time,{{refn|group=note|As Penn moved West, "College Hall"  continued to be the name of Penn's headquarters building and now serves as location of "The Office of the President". See {{cite web |url=https://president.upenn.edu/university-leadership/presidents-center |title=President's Center |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=June 5, 2022}}}} served as the temporary meeting site of the Second Continental Congress from July 7 to 20, 1778.<ref>{{cite web|title=Meeting Places for the Continental Congresses and the Confederation Congress, 1774–1789|url=https://history.house.gov/People/Continental-Congress/Meeting-Places/|access-date=January 30, 2022|archive-date=January 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114200713/https://history.house.gov/People/Continental-Congress/Meeting-Places/|url-status=live}}</ref> The British Army, led by General Sir William Howe, damaged many important parts of Philadelphia. Howe's attack caused significant damage to the Pennsylvania State House, now known as Independence Hall, the site where the Second Continental Congress convened and which it was forced to abandon in anticipation of the British attack and occupation of the city.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Riley|first=Edward M.|date=1953|title=The Independence Hall Group|journal=Transactions of the American Philosophical Society|volume=43|issue=1|pages=7–42|doi=10.2307/1005661|jstor=1005661|issn=0065-9746}}</ref>

By July 7, 1778, the Second Continental Congress returned to Philadelphia with the requisite quorum, but convened at College Hall since Independence Hall was damaged by the British attack, briefly establishing Penn's campus as one of the early capitals of the United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.unitedstatescapitals.org/p/college-hall.html?m=1 |title=College Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: July 2, 1778 to July 20, 1778 |website=unitedstatescapitals.org |access-date=May 28, 2022 |archive-date=August 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220818060725/https://www.unitedstatescapitals.org/p/college-hall.html?m=1 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=U.S. Senate: The Nine Capitals of the United States|url=https://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_item/Nine_Capitals_of_the_United_States.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616041354/https://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_item/Nine_Capitals_of_the_United_States.htm|archive-date=June 16, 2021|access-date=May 30, 2022|publisher=United States Senate}}</ref> Penn's brief status as the nation's capital is evidenced by a July 13, 1778, letter sent from Josiah Bartlett, a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and the Declaration of Independence, to John Langdon, who was also a Founding Father from New Hampshire. Langdon, who later became a signatory of the United States Constitution, wrote: "The Congress meets in the College Hall{{refn|group=note|The "College Hall" on the 4th and Arch Street campus was the first of three Penn buildings named "College Hall."}} as the State House was left by the enemy in a most filthy and sordid situation, as were many of the public and private buildings in the City."<ref>see also {{cite journal |title=Journals of the Continental Congress (JCC) 1774–1789 |editor-first1=Worthington C. |editor-last1=Ford |editor-first2=Gaillard |editor-last2=Hunt |editor-first3=John C. |editor-last3=Fitzpatrick |editor-first4=Roscoe R. |editor-last4=Hill |location=Washington, DC |publisher=Government Printing Office |via=Library of Congress |journal=A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Databases, 1774–1875 |url=http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html |volume=1 |pages=13, 104, 114 |access-date=May 28, 2022 |archive-date=December 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215052424/http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=002/llsl002.db&recNum=320 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===9th Street campus===
[[File:Ninth Street campus of the University of Pennsylvania (1802-1829).jpg|thumb|A {{Circa|1815}} illustration of the Ninth Street campus of the University of Pennsylvania, including the medical department (on left) and the college building (on right), which was originally intended to serve as the residence for the President of the United States before the national capital was moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. in 1800]]
[[File:Admission ticket to Benjamin Rush lecture 1807.jpg|thumb|A ticket to an 1807 lecture by Benjamin Rush, then a professor at Penn's Department of Medicine<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rush 1787 |url=https://kdhist.sitehost.iu.edu/H105-documents-web/week07/Rush1787.html |access-date=February 27, 2023 |website=kdhist.sitehost.iu.edu |archive-date=February 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227185157/https://kdhist.sitehost.iu.edu/H105-documents-web/week07/Rush1787.html |url-status=live }}</ref>]]
[[File:University of Pennsylvania Medical Hall and College Hall 1842.png|thumb|The Ninth Street Campus, located on the west side of Ninth Street between Market and Chestnut Streets, and a hand-colored lithograph created in 1842 by John Caspar Wild of Medical Hall (on left) and College Hall (on right), both built between 1829 and 1830]]
[[File:University of Pennsylvania Medical Hall 1829 Ninth Street.jpg|thumb|The Ninth Street Campus above Chestnut Street and Medical Hall just prior to the university's 1871 move to its current location in West Philadelphia]]
In 1802, the university moved to the unused Presidential Mansion at Ninth and Market Streets, a building that both George Washington and John Adams had declined to occupy while Philadelphia was the nation's capital.<ref name="WoodHistory">{{cite book|lccn=07007833|oclc=760190902|title=The History of the University of Pennsylvania, from Its Origin to the Year 1827|publisher= McCarty and Davis|author=Wood, George Bacon|year=1834|title-link=:s:en:The History of the University of Pennsylvania}}</ref>

Among the classes given in 1807 at this building were those offered by Benjamin Rush, a professor of chemistry, medical theory, and clinical practice who was also a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, member of the Continental Congress,<ref>{{cite journal
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Classes were held in the mansion until 1829 when it was demolished. Architect William Strickland designed twin buildings on the same site, College Hall{{refn|group=note|The "College Hall" on the 9th Street campus was the second of three Penn buildings named "College Hall", the first (the one that served as temporary, for 10 days, Capitol of United States) being located on the original campus at 4th and Arch Streets)}} and Medical Hall (both 1829–1830), which formed the core of the Ninth Street Campus until Penn's move to West Philadelphia in the 1870s.

===West Philadelphia campus===
[[File:The stranger's illustrated pocket guide to Philadelphia, embracing a description of the principal objects of interest in and around the city, with directions how to reach them (1876) (14776312571).jpg|thumb|An illustration of Penn's College Hall from a pocket guide to the Centennial Exhibition in 1876, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence]]
[[File:University of Pennsylvania- its history, traditions, buildings and memorials- also a brief guide to Philadelphia (1918) (14784617513).jpg|thumb|An illustration of the  University of Pennsylvania campus in West Philadelphia from a ''Brief Guide to Philadelphia'', published in 1918]]
After being located in downtown Philadelphia for more than a century, the campus was moved across the Schuylkill River to property purchased from the Blockley Almshouse in West Philadelphia in 1872, where it has since remained in an area now known as University City.

===Residential university===
In the 1750s, roughly 40 percent of Penn students needed lodging since they came from areas in the U.S. that were too far to commute, or were international students.<ref name="upennstudent">{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/18th-century/student-life |title=Penn in the 18th Century Student Life: A Campus Shared by the College, the Academy, and the Charity School |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=August 18, 2021 |archive-date=August 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818044015/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/18th-century/student-life |url-status=live }}</ref> Before the completion of the construction of the first dormitory in 1765, out of town students were typically placed with guardians in the homes of faculty or in suitable boarding houses, such as the one run by widow Rachel Marks Graydon, mother of Penn College Class of 1775 student Alexander Graydon.<ref>University of Pennsylvania's ''The Alumni Register'', June 1905, article by Isaac Anderson Pennypacker, (Penn College Class of '02) pp. 408–412</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/digitized-resources/docs-pubs/graydon-memoir-1811 |title=A Description of Life at the Academy and College of Philadelphia by Student Alexander Graydon, 1811 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=August 18, 2021 |archive-date=August 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818044016/https://archives.upenn.edu/digitized-resources/docs-pubs/graydon-memoir-1811 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1765, the campus was expanded by opening of the newly completed dormitory run by Benjamin Franklin's collaborator on the study of electricity using [[Physics:Franklin's electrostatic machine|electrostatic machines and related technology]] and Penn professor and chief master Ebenezer Kinnersley.{{refn|group=note|In 1753, a Presbyterian minister without a pulpit, Reverend Kinnersley, was elected Chief Master in the College of Philadelphia, and in 1755 was appointed professor of English and oratory. See {{cite encyclopedia |editor-last1=Wilson |editor-first1=J. G. |editor-last2=Fiske |editor-first2=J. |date=1892 |chapter=Kinnersley, Ebenezer |encyclopedia=Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography |location=New York |publisher=D. Appleton}}}} Kinnersley was designated steward of the students in the dormitory and he and his wife were given disciplinary powers over the students and supervised the cleanliness of the students with respect to personal hygiene and washing of the students' dirty clothing.<ref>Bell, Whitfield J., and Charles Greifenstein, Jr. Patriot-Improvers: Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society. 3 volumes, 1997: volume I: pages 80, 90, 154, 339—40; volume II: pages 69, 179; volume III: pages 22, 33, 41, 200–207, 298, 307, 533 (needs to be confirmed as this cite was copied from other Wikipedia entry for Kinnersley)</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/ebenezer-kinnersley |title=Ebenezer Kinnersley 1711 – 1778 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=August 18, 2021 |archive-date=August 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818044017/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/ebenezer-kinnersley |url-status=live }}</ref>

Even after its construction, however, many students sought living quarters elsewhere, where they would have more personal freedom, resulting in a loss of funds to the university. In the fall of 1775, Penn's trustees voted to advertise to lease the dormitory to a private family who would board the pupils at lesser cost to Penn.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/sceti/codex/public/PageLevel/index.cfm?WorkID=820&Page=99 |page=93 |title=Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Minute Books 1768–1779; 1789–1791 |chapter=October 17, 1775 |volume=II |publisher=College, Academy and Charitable School; University of Pennsylvania |via=Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image |access-date=August 18, 2021 |archive-date=August 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818122857/http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/sceti/codex/public/PageLevel/index.cfm?WorkID=820&Page=99 |url-status=live }}</ref> In another attempt to control the off-campus activities of the students, the trustees agreed not to admit any out-of-town student unless he was lodged in a place which they and the faculty considered proper.<ref name="upennstudent"/> As of 1779, Penn, through its trustees, owned three houses on Fourth Street, just north of the campus's new building with the largest residence located on the corner of Fourth and Arch Streets.<ref>The Trustees Minutes and a 1779 Plan of the College</ref><ref name="upennstudent"/>

Starting in 1849 with formation of Penn's Eta chapter{{refn|group=note|Now known at Penn as "St. Elmo's Club" with male and female members.{{cite web |url=https://stelmopenn.2stayconnected.com/ |title=St. Elmo Club |publisher=St. Elmo Club |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160526225847/https://stelmopenn.2stayconnected.com/ |archive-date=May 26, 2016 |access-date=August 18, 2021}}}} of Delta Phi by five founders and 15 initiates,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/fraternities/listing/delta-phi |title=Early Fraternities Delta Phi (St. Elmo) |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=April 7, 2021 |archive-date=June 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210603182704/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/fraternities/listing/delta-phi |url-status=live }}</ref> Penn students began to establish residential fraternity houses. Since Penn only had limited housing near campus and since students, especially those at the medical school, came from all over the country, the students elected to fend for themselves rather than live in housing owned by Penn trustees. A number chose housing by pledging and living in Penn's first fraternities, which included Delta Phi, Zeta Psi, Phi Kappa Sigma, and Delta Psi.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/fraternities/listing|title=Early Penn Fraternities|website=University Archives and Records Center|access-date=December 19, 2023|archive-date=April 27, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230427134210/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/fraternities/listing/|url-status=live}}</ref> These first fraternities were located within walking distance of 9th and Chestnut Street since the campus was located from 1800 to 1872 on the west side of Ninth Street, from Market Street on the north to Chestnut Street on the south. Zeta Psi Fraternity was located at the southeast corner of 10th Street and Chestnut Street, Delta Phi was located on the south side of 11th Street near Chestnut Street, and Delta Psi was located on the north side of Chestnut Street, west of 10th Street.<ref>{{cite web |title=Histories of Early Penn Fraternities: Earliest Account of Penn Fraternities |quote=excerpted from the diary of George D. Budd (1843–1874) who received his A.B. from Penn in 1862, and LL.B. from Penn Law in 1865. |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/fraternities/budd-account |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=April 7, 2021 |archive-date=April 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418203308/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/fraternities/budd-account |url-status=live }}</ref>

When Penn moved to West Philadelphia in 1872, the new campus and its associated fraternities centered on the intersection of Woodland Avenue, 36th Street, and Locust Street. Among the first fraternities to build near the new campus were Phi Delta Theta in 1883 and Psi Upsilon in 1891. By 1891, there were at least 17 fraternities at the university.<ref>{{cite news |title=Histories of Early Penn Fraternities |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/fraternities |website=University Archives and Records Center |publisher=Penn |access-date=May 12, 2021 |archive-date=May 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509204050/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/fraternities |url-status=live }}</ref>

From its founding until construction of the Quadrangle Dormitories, which started construction in 1895, the university largely lacked university-owned housing with the exception of a significant part of the 18th century. A significant portion of the undergraduate population commuted from Delaware Valley locations, and a large number of students resided in the Philadelphia area.<ref>{{cite book |last=Baltzell |first=Digby |date=1996 |title=Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia |location=Piscataway, NJ |publisher=Transaction Publishers |page=253 |isbn=978-1560008309}}</ref> The medical school, then with roughly half the students, was a significant exception to this trend as it attracted a more geographically diverse population of students. For example, in the 1850s when Penn's medical school accounted for two-thirds to three-quarters of the student body, over half of the population of the medical school was from the southern part of the United States.<ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/pa-album/quad |title=The Quadrangle |last=Linck |first=Elizabeth |date=1990 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Archives & Records Center |access-date=March 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190219015644/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/pa-album/quad |archive-date=February 19, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/civil-war.pdf |title=National Crisis, Institutional Change: Penn and the Civil War |last=Pieczynski |first=Denise |date=1990 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Archives & Records Center |access-date=April 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302024615/https://archives.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/civil-war.pdf |archive-date=March 2, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The university experienced increased need for housing in the last decade of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century as it began to compete with peer institutions to recruit foreign students.

George Henderson, president of the class of 1889, wrote in his monograph distributed to his classmates at their 20th reunion that Penn's strong growth in acreage and number of buildings it constructed over the prior two decades (along with a near-quadrupling in the size of the student body) was accommodated by building The Quad.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archives.upenn.edu/collections/finding-aid/upt110|title=Class Collection|website=University Archives and Records Center|access-date=December 11, 2021|archive-date=December 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211211192807/https://archives.upenn.edu/collections/finding-aid/upt110|url-status=live}}</ref>

Henderson argued that building The Quad was influential in attracting students, and he appealed for it to be expanded:<ref name="Henderson">George Henderson, ''Old Penn and Other Universities: A Comparative Study of Twenty Years Progress of The University of Pennsylvania'', (U. of Pa. Class of '89) June 1909 Monograph in Penn Archives for Class of 1889: Box 9, Folder 8 [http://brittlebooks.library.illinois.edu/brittlebooks_open/Books2011-09/hendge0001oldpen/hendge0001oldpen.pdf (PDF)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211211201158/https://brittlebooks.library.illinois.edu/brittlebooks_open/Books2011-09/hendge0001oldpen/hendge0001oldpen.pdf |date=December 11, 2021 }}</ref>
{{blockquote|And the new buildings? First of all there is need of greater dormitory room. Did you ever live in the "dorms?" Then you do not know what "dorm" life means for college spirit. Several hundred men who live in the same big family have a feeling of common fellowship. Life in the "dorms" develops what our sociologists call a "Solidarity of Responsibility." Men who live there learn to care for the associations that brought them together and that keep them related. And this college spirit they never lose or forget.
Some parents, living at a distance, do not like to send their sons to live in a general boarding house. But a dormitory, a University institution, appeals to them, and the boys come and live there. You would scarcely believe it, but when College opened last fall not only were the dormitory rooms over subscribed, but there was a long list of anxious ones, ready to snap up the room of any unlucky fellow who might miss his examinations, and be forced to spend another year at preparatory school grind. So we need the new dormitories, and although they are going up steadily, they might well go up faster.<ref name="Henderson"/>}}

In 1911, since it was difficult to house the international students due to the segregation-era housing regulations in Philadelphia and across the United States, the Christian Association at the University of Pennsylvania hired its first Foreign Mission Secretary, Reverend Alpheus Waldo Stevenson.<ref>{{cite web |quote=Stevenson earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Penn in 1883 |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/alpheus-waldo-stevenson |title=Alpheus Waldo Stevenson |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=March 15, 2021 |archive-date=February 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227191724/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/alpheus-waldo-stevenson |url-status=live }}</ref> By 1912, Stevenson focused almost all his efforts on the foreign students at Penn who needed help finding housing resulting in the Christian Association buying 3905 Spruce Street located adjacent to Penn's West Philadelphia campus.<ref>{{cite web |quote=The Christian Association bought 3905 Spruce building from a member of the Potts family (who was a member of the Board of Trustees at the University of Pennsylvania) |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/global-engagement/ish |title=Taking Action for the Community: The International Students' House at Penn |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=December 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119185751/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/global-engagement/ish |url-status=live }}</ref> By January 1, 1918, 3905 Spruce Street officially opened under the sponsorship of the Christian Association as a Home for Foreign Students, which came to be known as the International Students' House with Reverend Stevenson as its first director. The International Students' House provided " ... counseling and information services for a host of problems foreign students might encounter, including language, financial, health and diet, immigration and technical problems as well as maladjustment to living in the United States. It was also used for recreation and leisure, as lounges had radio, phonograph and television facilities and there were game and reception rooms. The International Students' House also provided for programs including forums, debates, lectures, panels and planned trips and outings as well as weekend activities such as dances, films and game nights. Also, for the next thirty-three years, the International Students' House would be sponsored by the Christian Association of the University of Pennsylvania."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/global-engagement/ish |title=Global Engagement: The International Students' House at Penn |newspaper=University Archives and Records Center |access-date=December 19, 2023 |archive-date=April 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402082152/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/global-engagement/ish/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The success of efforts to reach out to the international students was reported in 1921 when the university reported that the university's 12,000 students at the time came from all 50 states and 253 came from at least 50 foreign countries and foreign territories, including {{wipe|India}}, {{wipe|South Africa}}, [[Earth:New Zealand|New Zealand]], {{wipe|Australia}}, and "...every Latin American country, and most of the Oriental and European nations".<ref name="A Timeline of Diversity at the Univ">{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/diversity-timeline |title=A Timeline of Diversity at the University of Pennsylvania |editor-last=Franklin |editor-first=Michael |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190723184234/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/diversity-timeline |archive-date=July 23, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

By 1931, first-year students were required to live in the quadrangle unless they received official permission to live with their families or other relatives.<ref name="auto" /> However, throughout this period and into the early post-World War II period, the undergraduate schools of the university continued to have a large commuting population.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/pa-album/modern |title=The Modern Urban University |last=Bessin |first=James |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Archives & Records Center |access-date=March 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302024747/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/pa-album/modern |archive-date=March 2, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> As an example, into the late 1940s, two-thirds of Penn women students were commuters.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Puckett |first1=John |last2=Lloyd |first2=Mark |date=1995 |title=Becoming Penn: The Pragmatic American University, 1950–2000 |location=Philadelphia |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |page=45 |isbn=978-0812246803}}</ref>

[[File:A647, University Motor Inn, Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, 2018.jpg|thumb|University Motor Inn on the Schuylkill River—sold to Penn in 1964; used as a dormitory for medical students until 1971; demolished in 2023<ref>Bixler, Michael (December 7, 2023). [https://hiddencityphila.org/2023/12/lost-buildings-of-2022/ "Lost Buildings of 2022"] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20240113074908/https://hiddencityphila.org/2023/12/lost-buildings-of-2022/ archive]). ''hiddencityphila.org''. Hidden City Philadelphia. Retrieved January 13, 2024.</ref>]]
After [[Social:World War II|World War II]], the university began a capital spending program to overhaul its campus, including its student housing. A large number of students migrating to universities under the G.I. Bill, and the ensuing increase in Penn's student population highlighted that Penn had outgrown previous expansions, which ended during the Great Depression era. But in addition to a significant student population from the Delaware Valley, the university continued to attract international students from at least 50 countries and from all 50 states as early as of the second decade of the 1920s.<ref name="A Timeline of Diversity at the Univ"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/media/2017/04/integrated-development-plan-1962.pdf#page=13 |title=Integrated Development Plan |date=1962 |access-date=March 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302024635/https://archives.upenn.edu/media/2017/04/integrated-development-plan-1962.pdf#page=13 |archive-date=March 2, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> Penn Trustee Paul Miller wrote that, in the post-World War II era,: "[t]he bricks-and-mortar Capital Campaign of the Sixties...built the facilities that turned Penn from a commuter school to a residential one...."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archives.upenn.edu/digitized-resources/docs-pubs/institutional-planning/almanac-franklins-promise-1989|title="'Keeping Franklin's Promise' is the Billion-Dollar Goal," The Almanac, 1989|website=University Archives and Records Center, University of Pennsylvania |access-date=March 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190218082006/https://archives.upenn.edu/digitized-resources/docs-pubs/institutional-planning/almanac-franklins-promise-1989|archive-date=February 18, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> By 1961, 79% of male undergraduates and 57% of female undergraduates lived on campus.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/media/2017/04/integrated-development-plan-1962.pdf#page=67 |title=Integrated Development Plan |date=1962 |access-date=March 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302024635/https://archives.upenn.edu/media/2017/04/integrated-development-plan-1962.pdf#page=67 |archive-date=March 2, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Controversies===
From 1930 to 1966, there were 54 documented Rowbottom riots, a student tradition of rioting which included everything from car smashing to panty raids.<ref name=Rowbottom>{{cite web|last=McConaghy|first=Mary D.|title=Student Traditions Rowbottom: Documented Rowbottoms, 1910–1970|url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/traditions/rowbottom/list.html|work=University Archives and Records Center|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|access-date=August 25, 2011|author2=Ashish Shrestha|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210233901/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/traditions/rowbottom/list.html|archive-date=February 10, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> After 1966, there were five more instances of "Rowbottoms", the latest occurring in 1980.<ref name=Rowbottom />

In 1965, Penn students learned that the university was sponsoring research projects for the United States' chemical and biological weapons program.<ref name="CB Controversy">{{cite journal|last=Herman|first=Edward S.|author2=Robert J. Rutman |author3=University of Pennsylvania |title=University of Pennsylvania's CB Warfare Controversy|journal=BioScience|date=August 1967|volume=17|issue=8|pages=526–529|jstor=1294007|doi=10.2307/1294007}}</ref> According to [[Biography:Edward S. Herman|Herman]] and Rutman, the revelation that "CB Projects Spicerack and Summit were directly connected with U.S. military activities in Southeast Asia", caused students to petition Penn president [[Biography:Gaylord Harnwell|Gaylord Harnwell]] to halt the program, citing the project as being "immoral, inhuman, illegal, and unbefitting of an academic institution".<ref name="CB Controversy" /> Members of the faculty believed that an academic university should not be performing classified research and voted to re-examine the university agency which was responsible for the project on November 4, 1965.<ref name="CB Controversy"/>

In 1983, members of the Animal Liberation Front broke into the Head Injury Clinical Research Laboratory in the School of Medicine and stole research audio and video tapes. The stolen tapes were given to PETA who edited the footage to create a film, ''Unnecessary Fuss''. As a result of media coverage and pressure from animal rights activists, the project was closed down.<ref name="Ethics Report">{{cite web|url=https://www.onlineethics.org/cms/17252.aspx|title=OEC – Reflections on the Organizational Locus of the Office for Protection from Research Risks (Research Involving Human Participants V2)|website=onlineethics.org|first=Charles R|last=McCarthy|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100806205817/https://www.onlineethics.org/cms/17252.aspx|archive-date=August 6, 2010|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|quote=The university was put on probation by OPRR. The Head Injury Clinic was closed. The chief veterinarian was fired, the administration of animal facilities was consolidated, new training programs for investigators and staff were initiated, and quarterly progress reports to OPRR were required.}}</ref>

The school gained notoriety in 1993 for the [[Social:Water buffalo incident|water buffalo incident]] in which a student who told a group of mostly black female students to "shut up, you water buffalo" was charged with violating the university's racial harassment policy.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://partners.nytimes.com/books/first/k/kors-university.html|author1=Alan Charles Kors|author2=Harvey A. Silverglate|title=The Shadow University|work=The New York Times|access-date=August 17, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709085033/http://partners.nytimes.com/books/first/k/kors-university.html|archive-date=July 9, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2022, some asked for the tenure of a University of Pennsylvania law school professor to be revoked after she said the country is "better off with fewer Asians."<ref>{{cite web |last=Staff |first=6abc Digital |date=January 14, 2022 |title=Calls continue for action against Penn professor who made anti-Asian comments |url=https://6abc.com/amy-wax-penn-professor-anti-asian-comments-university-of-pennsylvania-school-law-upenn/11464878/ |access-date=June 26, 2022 |website=6abc Philadelphia |language=en |archive-date=June 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626233332/https://6abc.com/amy-wax-penn-professor-anti-asian-comments-university-of-pennsylvania-school-law-upenn/11464878/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Mitovich |first=Jared |title=Penn Law's Amy Wax doubles down on racist comments, says she will not resign 'without a fight' |url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2022/01/penn-law-amy-wax-will-not-resign-despite-university-sanctions-anti-asian-racism |access-date=June 26, 2022 |website=www.thedp.com |language=en-us |archive-date=June 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220630091010/https://www.thedp.com/article/2022/01/penn-law-amy-wax-will-not-resign-despite-university-sanctions-anti-asian-racism |url-status=live }}</ref>

On December 9, 2023, the University of Pennsylvania president, Liz Magill and the chairman of its board of trustees, Scott L. Bok, resigned.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Saul |first1=Stephanie |last2=Blinder |first2=Alan |last3=Hartocollis |first3=Anemona |last4=Farrell |first4=Maureen |title=Penn's Leadership Resigns Amid Controversies over Antisemitism |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/09/us/university-of-pennsylvania-president-resigns.html |access-date=10 December 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=9 December 2023 |archive-date=December 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231209215313/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/09/us/university-of-pennsylvania-president-resigns.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Magill had been Penn's president since July 2022; she will remain until an interim replacement is found. After that, she will be a tenured member of the Penn Law faculty.<ref name="magillwsj">{{cite news |last1=Korn |first1=Melissa |title=Penn President, Board Chair Resign After Furor Over Comments on Campus Antisemitism |url=https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/university-of-pennsylvania-president-resigns-amid-furor-over-comments-on-antisemitism-on-campus-658d74cd |access-date=10 December 2023 |work=WSJ |date=10 December 2023 |archive-date=December 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231210102101/https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/university-of-pennsylvania-president-resigns-amid-furor-over-comments-on-antisemitism-on-campus-658d74cd |url-status=live }}</ref> During a hearing before the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce on December 6, Magill did not unequivocally affirm that calls for the genocide of Jewish people constituted harassment at the university. Magill's resignation followed a series of controversial incidents since September 2023.<ref name="magillwsj" />

===Educational innovations===
[[File:Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.jpg|thumb|Houston Hall, the first college student union in the nation]]
Penn's educational innovations include the nation's first medical school in 1765; the first university teaching hospital in 1874; the Wharton School, the world's first collegiate business school, in 1881; the first American student union building, Houston Hall, in 1896;<ref>{{cite book|title=Building America's First University: An Historical and Architectural Guide to the University of Pennsylvania |last1=Thomas |first1=George E. |last2=Brownlee |first2=David Bruce |year=2000|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |location=Philadelphia |page=3 |isbn=978-0-8122-3515-9}}</ref> the only school of veterinary medicine in the United States that originated directly from its medical school, in 1884;<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.vet.upenn.edu/about/our-history | title=Penn Vet {{pipe}} Our History | access-date=May 28, 2023 | archive-date=May 3, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200503024340/https://www.vet.upenn.edu/about/our-history | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/school-histories/vet/ | title=Brief History: School of Veterinary Medicine | access-date=May 28, 2023 | archive-date=May 28, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528014742/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/school-histories/vet/ | url-status=live }}</ref> and the home of [[Engineering:ENIAC|ENIAC]], the world's first electronic, large-scale, general-purpose digital computer in 1946. Penn is also home to the oldest continuously functioning [[Social:Psychology|psychology]] department in North America and is where the American Medical Association was founded.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.psych.upenn.edu/|title=Welcome to the Department of Psychology|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|access-date=April 29, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060423123404/http://psych.upenn.edu/|archive-date=April 23, 2006|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/schools/med.html|publisher=University Archives and Records Center, University of Pennsylvania|title=History of the School of Medicine|access-date=April 29, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051215193941/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/schools/med.html|archive-date=December 15, 2005|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1921, Penn was also the first university to award a [[Social:Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] in economics to an African American woman, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander.<ref name=Almanac>{{cite web|url=http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/v49/n02/sadie_timeline.html|title=The life and accomplishments of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander|date=September 3, 2002|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Almanac|access-date=March 31, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525042547/http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/v49/n02/sadie_timeline.html|archive-date=May 25, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Motto===
In 1932, all elements of the seal were revised. As part of the redesign, it was decided that the new motto "mutilated" Horace, and it was changed to its present wording, {{lang-la|Leges Sine Moribus Vanae|lit=Laws without morals [are] useless|link=no|label=none}}.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hughes|first=Samuel|year=2002|url=https://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0102/0102finals.html|title=Whiskey, Loose Women, and Fig Leaves: The University's seal has a curious history|journal=Pennsylvania Gazette|volume=100|issue=3|access-date=February 2, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051113054610/http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0102/0102finals.html|archive-date=November 13, 2005|url-status=live}}</ref>
Penn's motto is based on a line from Horace's III.24 (Book 3, Ode 24), {{lang-la|quid leges sine moribus vanae proficiunt?|lit=of what avail empty laws without [good] morals?|link=no|label=none|cat=no}}. From 1756 to 1898, the motto read ''{{lang|la|Sine Moribus Vanae}}''. When it was pointed out that the motto could be translated as 'Loose women without morals', the university quickly changed the motto to {{lang-la|literae sine moribus vanae|lit=Letters without morals [are] useless|link=no|label=none}}.

===Seal===
[[File:1757 UPenn Seal.png|thumb|The 1757 seal of the academy and College of Philadelphia; in 1779, the college was renamed the "University in Philadelphia" and, following the end of the Revolutionary War in 1782, assumed its current name, the University of Pennsylvania]]
The official [[Seal (emblem)|seal]] of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania serves as the signature and symbol of authenticity on documents issued by the corporation.<ref name="sealFAQ">{{cite web|url=https://secure.www.upenn.edu/secretary/FAQ.html|title=Frequently Asked Questions: Questions about the University|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|access-date=October 4, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031005744/https://secure.www.upenn.edu/secretary/FAQ.html|archive-date=October 31, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> A request for one was first recorded in a meeting of the trustees in 1753 during which some of the Trustees "desired to get a Common Seal engraved for the Use of [the] Corporation". In 1756, a public seal and motto for the college was engraved in silver.<ref>{{cite book|last=Coleman|first=William|title=Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Minute Books, volume 1|year=1749–1768|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|location=University of Pennsylvania Archives|pages=36, 68|url=http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/pages/index.cfm?so_id=11133|access-date=October 5, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120607062521/http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/pages/index.cfm?so_id=11133|archive-date=June 7, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> The most recent design, a modified version of the original seal, was approved in 1932, adopted a year later and is still used for much of the same purposes as the original.<ref name="sealFAQ"/>
The official [[Seal (emblem)|seal]] of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania serves as the signature and symbol of authenticity on documents issued by the corporation.<ref name="sealFAQ"/> A request for one was first recorded in a meeting of the trustees in 1753 during which some of the Trustees "desired to get a Common Seal engraved for the Use of [the] Corporation". In 1756, a public seal and motto for the college was engraved in silver.<ref>{{cite book|last=Coleman|first=William|title=Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Minute Books, volume 1|year=1749–1768|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|location=University of Pennsylvania Archives|pages=36, 68|url=http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/pages/index.cfm?so_id=11133|access-date=October 5, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120607062521/http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/pages/index.cfm?so_id=11133|archive-date=June 7, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> The most recent design, a modified version of the original seal, was approved in 1932, adopted a year later and is still used for much of the same purposes as the original.<ref name="sealFAQ"/>

The outer ring of the current seal is inscribed with "Universitas Pennsylvaniensis", the Latin name of the University of Pennsylvania. The inside contains seven stacked books on a desk with the titles of subjects of the [[Social:Trivium|trivium]] and a modified [[Quadrivium|quadrivium]], components of a classical education: Theolog[ia], Astronom[ia], Philosoph[ia], Mathemat[ica], Logica, Rhetorica and Grammatica. Between the books and the outer ring is the Latin motto of the university, "Leges Sine Moribus Vanae".<ref name="sealFAQ"/>

==Campus==
[[File:Benjamin Franklin statue in front of College Hall.JPG|thumb|This statue of Benjamin Franklin, donated to the City of Philadelphia in 1899, now sits in front of College Hall at the center of Penn's main campus in honor of Franklin, the university's founder.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Ceremonies Attending the Unveiling of the Statue of Benjamin Franklin |url=https://archive.org/details/ceremoniesatten02stragoog|quote=justus c strawbridge.|access-date=November 24, 2007 |last=Strawbridge |first=Justus C. |publisher=Allen, Lane & Scott|isbn=978-1-103-92435-6|year=1899}}</ref>]]
[[File:Upper Quad Gate in the fall.jpg|thumb|Upper Quad Gate forming lower part of Memorial Tower, which honors veterans of the Spanish–American War]]
[[File:Huntsman Hall at the University of Pennsylvania.jpg|thumb|Center City Philadelphia seen from the University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District with Huntsman Hall in the foreground]]
Much of Penn's architecture was designed by the Philadelphia-based architecture firm Cope and Stewardson, whose owners were Philadelphia born and raised architects and professors at Penn who also designed [[Organization:Princeton University|Princeton University]] and a large part of [[Organization:Washington University in St. Louis|Washington University in St. Louis]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/walter-cope/ | title=Walter Cope | access-date=March 23, 2023 | archive-date=March 23, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323061145/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/walter-cope/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/john-stewardson/ | title=John Stewardson | newspaper=University Archives and Records Center | access-date=March 23, 2023 | archive-date=March 23, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323060904/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/john-stewardson/ | url-status=live }}</ref> They were known for having combined the Gothic architecture of the [[Organization:University of Oxford|University of Oxford]] and [[Organization:University of Cambridge|University of Cambridge]] with the local landscape to establish the Collegiate Gothic style.<ref>{{Philadelphia Architects and Buildings |ar=23024 |Cope & Stewardson (fl. 1885–1912)}}</ref>

The present core campus covers over {{convert|299|acre|ha}} in a contiguous area of West Philadelphia's University City section, whereas the older heart of the campus comprises the University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District. All of Penn's schools and most of its research institutes are located on this campus. The surrounding neighborhood includes several restaurants, bars, a large upscale grocery store, and a movie theater on the western edge of campus. Penn's core campus borders [[Organization:Drexel University|Drexel University]] and is a few blocks from the University City campus of Saint Joseph's University (which absorbed University of the Sciences in Philadelphia via a merger) and The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College.

The renowned cancer research center [[Organization:Wistar Institute|Wistar Institute]] is also located on campus. In 2014, a new 7-story glass and steel building was completed next to the institute's original brick edifice built in 1897 further expanding collaboration between the university and the Wistar Institute.<ref>{{cite news|last=Clarke|first=Dominique|title=Wistar strategic plan includes new building and research|url=http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2011/09/wistar_strategic_plan_includes_new_building_and_research|access-date=November 10, 2011 |newspaper=The Daily Pennsylvanian|date=September 26, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121203226/http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2011/09/wistar_strategic_plan_includes_new_building_and_research |archive-date=January 21, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Module 6 Utility Plant and Garage at Penn was designed by BLT Architects and completed in 1995. Module 6 is located at 38th and Walnut and includes spaces for 627 vehicles, {{convert|9000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} of storefront retail operations, a 9,500-ton chiller module and corresponding extension of the campus chilled water loop, and a 4,000-ton ice storage facility.<ref>{{cite web|title=University of Pennsylvania Module 6 Utility Plant and Garage|url=http://www.blta.com/#/3/0/4/7/|publisher=BLT Architects|access-date=August 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812175412/http://blta.com/#/3/0/4/7/|archive-date=August 12, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2010, in its first significant expansion across the Schuylkill River, Penn purchased {{convert|23|acre}} at the northwest corner of 34th Street and Grays Ferry Avenue, the then site of [[Company:DuPont|DuPont]] Marshall Research Labs. In October 2016, Penn completed the design (with help from architects Matthias Hollwich, Marc Kushner, and KSS Architects) and renovation of the center piece of the project, a former paint factory it named ''Pennovation Works''. ''Pennovation Works'' houses shared desks, wet labs, common areas, a "pitch bleacher", and other attributes of a tech incubator. The rest of the site, which Penn is formally calling "South Bank" (of Schuylkill River), is a mixture of lightly refurbished industrial buildings that serve as affordable and flexible workspaces and land for future development. Penn hopes that "South Bank will provide a place for academics, researchers, and entrepreneurs to establish their businesses in close proximity to each other to facilitate cross-pollination of their ideas, creativity, and innovation.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pennovation.upenn.edu/news/tracking-evolution-industry-34th-and-grays-ferry |title=Tracking The Evolution Of Industry At 34th And Grays Ferry |last=Helmer |first=Madeleine |date=March 16, 2017 |publisher=Pennovation Works University of Pennsylvania |access-date=March 19, 2021 |archive-date=June 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623194534/https://www.pennovation.upenn.edu/news/tracking-evolution-industry-34th-and-grays-ferry |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Parks and arboreta===
In 2007, Penn acquired about {{convert|35|acre|ha}} between the campus and the Schuylkill River at the former site of the Philadelphia Civic Center and a nearby {{convert|24|acre|ha|adj=on}} site then owned by the United States Postal Service. Dubbed the Postal Lands, the site extends from Market Street on the north to Penn's Bower Field on the south, including the former main regional U.S. Postal Building at 30th and Market Streets, now the regional office for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Over the next decade, the site became the home to educational, research, [[Medicine:Biomedical engineering|biomedical]], and [[Engineering:Mixed-use development|mixed-use]] facilities. The first phase, comprising a park and athletic facilities, opened in the fall of 2011.

In September 2011, Penn completed the construction of the $46.5 million, {{convert|24|acre|ha|adj=on}} Penn Park, which features passive and active recreation and athletic components framed and subdivided by canopy trees, lawns, and meadows. It is located east of the Highline Green and stretches from Walnut Street to South Streets.

Penn maintains two arboreta. The first, the roughly {{convert|300|acre|sp=us|adj=on}} ''The Penn Campus Arboretum at the University of Pennsylvania'', encompasses the entire University City main campus. The campus arboretum is an urban forest with over 6,500 trees representing 240 species of trees and shrubs, ten specialty gardens and five urban parks,<ref name="arbnet">{{cite web |url=http://www.arbnet.org/morton-register/penn-campus-arboretum-university-pennsylvania-0 |title=Penn Campus Arboretum at the University of Pennsylvania |website=arbnet.org |access-date=March 19, 2021 |archive-date=April 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419031738/http://www.arbnet.org/morton-register/penn-campus-arboretum-university-pennsylvania-0 |url-status=live }}</ref> which has been designated as a Tree Campus USA<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.arborday.org/programs/tree-campus-higher-education/|title=Tree Campus Higher Education at arborday.org|website=www.arborday.org|access-date=December 19, 2023|archive-date=December 2, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231202212455/https://www.arborday.org/programs/tree-campus-higher-education/|url-status=live}}</ref> since 2009 and formally recognized as an accredited ArbNet Arboretum since 2017.<ref name="arbnet"/> Penn maintains an interactive website linked to Penn's comprehensive tree inventory, which allows users to explore Penn's entire collection of trees.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/ |title=Welcome |work=University of Pennsylvania Facilities & Real Estate |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=March 19, 2021 |archive-date=March 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304222559/https://www.facilities.upenn.edu/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The second arboretum, Penn's Morris Arboretum & Gardens (the official arboretum of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania) is 92 acres (sited over 15 miles from Penn's "Campus Arboretum") and contains more than 13,000 labelled plants from over 2,500 types, representing the temperate floras of [[Earth:North America|North America]], [[Earth:Asia|Asia]], and [[Earth:Europe|Europe]], with a primary focus on Asia 
<ref>{{cite web| url = https://gis.penndot.gov/CRGISAttachments/SiteResource/H001351_04H.pdf| title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Compton and Bloomfield| access-date = 2023-09-01| author = George E. Thomas| format = PDF| date = August 1978| archive-date = August 14, 2022| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220814120207/https://gis.penndot.gov/CRGISAttachments/SiteResource/H001351_04H.pdf| url-status = live}}</ref>

===New Bolton Center (Penn Vet's Large Animal Hospital Campus)===
[[File:SOUTH BROOK FARM.jpg|right|thumb|Penn bought New Bolton Center in 1952 to be used as part of its large animal campus. The 687 acre site includes above edifice built in 1717 for Caleb Pusey and subsequently enlarged]]

Penn also owns the {{convert|687|acre|ha|adj=on}} New Bolton Center, the research and large-animal health care center of its veterinary school.<ref name="arch">{{cite web| url = https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp| title = National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania| publisher = CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System| format = Searchable database| access-date = March 25, 2021| archive-date = July 21, 2007| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070721014609/https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp| url-status = dead}} ''Note:'' This includes {{cite web| url = https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce_imagery/phmc_scans/H096882_01H.pdf| title = Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form: South Brook Farm| access-date = December 16, 2012| author = George E. Thomas| date = June 1991| archive-date = December 16, 2013| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131216182522/https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce_imagery/phmc_scans/H096882_01H.pdf| url-status = dead}}</ref>  Located near Kennett Square, New Bolton Center received nationwide media attention when Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro underwent surgery at its Widener Hospital for injuries suffered while running in the Preakness Stakes.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/barbaro/|title=Barbaro|access-date=December 19, 2023|archive-date=April 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404200850/https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/barbaro/|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Libraries===<!-- This section is linked from [[Company:NeXT|NeXT]] -->
[[File:Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center - IMG 6589.JPG|thumb|right|Van Pelt Library, Penn's main library building]]

[[File:Furness library.jpg|thumb|right|Penn's first stand alone library built 1891 (image circa 1915) designed by Frank Furness and now known as Fisher Fine Arts Library, which is library for Penn's School of Design]]

[[File:Furness Lib interior looking N UPenn.JPG|thumb|right|interior of School of Design library showing the "stacks"]]
Penn's library began in 1750 with a donation of books from cartographer Lewis Evans. Twelve years later, then-provost William Smith sailed to England to raise additional funds to increase the collection size. Benjamin Franklin was one of the libraries' earliest donors and, as a trustee, saw to it that funds were allocated for the purchase of texts from London, many of which are still part of the collection, more than 250 years later.

Penn library system has grown into a system of 14 libraries with 400 [[Physics:Full-time equivalent|full-time equivalent]] (FTE) employees and a total operating budget of more than $48&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/access/visitors |title=Penn Libraries Visitor Information |newspaper=Penn Libraries |access-date=March 14, 2022 |archive-date=March 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314193318/https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/access/visitors |url-status=live }}</ref> The library system has 6.19 million book and serial volumes as well as 4.23 million [[Social:Microform|microform]] items and 1.11 million e-books.<ref name="Penn: Penn Facts"/> It subscribes to over 68,000 print serials and e-journals.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://datafarm.library.upenn.edu/|title=Penn Library Data Farm|access-date=December 24, 2009|archive-date=March 17, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317083950/http://datafarm.library.upenn.edu/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title= Data Farm|url =http://datafarm.library.upenn.edu/ |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110317083950/http://datafarm.library.upenn.edu/|archive-date=March 17, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

Penn has the following libraries, associated by school or subject area: (1) communications library, located on campus on Walnut Street between 36th and 37th Streets in the Annenberg Communications School; (2) Biddle Law Library, located on campus on 3500 block of Sansom in the Law School; (3) The Holman Biotech Commons library, located on campus, on 3500 block of Hamilton Walk, adjacent to the Robert Wood Johnson Pavilion of the Medical School and the Nursing School; (4) chemistry library, located on campus, on 3300 block of Spruce, in the 1973 Wing of the Chemistry Building; (5) dental medicine library located on campus, on 4000 block of Locust Street, in Dental School; (6) fine arts library, located on campus, on 3400 block of Woodland Ave, within the Fisher Fine Arts Library; (7) Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies library, located off campus, at 420 Walnut Street, near Independence Hall and Washington Square; (8) humanities and social sciences library (including Weigle Information Commons) located on campus, between 34th and 35th streets on Locust Street in the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center; (9) Lea library collection of Roman Catholic Church history, located on campus, between 34th and 35th streets on Locust Street, on the 6th floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center; (10) Lippincott business library, located on campus, between 35th and 36th streets on Locust Street, in the second floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center; (11) Math/Physics/Astronomy library, located on campus, on 3200 block of Walnut Streets, adjacent to The Palestra on the third floor of David Rittenhouse Laboratory; (12) archaeology and anthropology library within Penn Museum; (13) Rare Books and Manuscripts library (including the Yarnall Library of Theology) located on campus, between 34th and 35th streets on Locust Street, in Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center; (14) veterinary medicine library, located on Penn Campus, between 38th and 39th streets on Sansom Street,  within the Vet School (with satellite library located off campus at New Bolton Center. Penn also maintains books and records off campus at high density storage facility.

The Penn Design School's Fine Arts Library was built to be Penn's main library and the first with its own building. The main library at the time was designed by Frank Furness to be first library in nation to separate the low ceilings of the [[Engineering:Library stack|library stack]], where the books were stored, from forty-foot-plus high ceilinged rooms, where the books were read and studied.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWOH42D3i1U |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/hWOH42D3i1U| archive-date=December 11, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Penn's Spectacular Architecture – YouTube|website=www.youtube.com}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>see also Applications for Historical Landmark Status</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=1971 Nomination Form, by George Thomas|url=http://uchs.net/HistoricDistricts/furness.html|access-date=July 20, 2007|archive-date=July 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729081956/http://uchs.net/HistoricDistricts/furness.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Yarnall Library of Theology, a major American rare book collection, is part of Penn's libraries. The Yarnall Library of Theology was formerly affiliated with St. Clement's Church in Philadelphia. It was founded in 1911 under the terms of the wills of Ellis Hornor Yarnall (1839–1907) and Emily Yarnall, and subsequently housed at the former Philadelphia Divinity School. The library's major areas of focus are theology, patristics, and the liturgy, history and theology of the Anglican Communion and the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. It includes a large number of rare books, incunabula, and illuminated manuscripts, and new material continues to be added.<ref>Joyce L. White, "Biographical and Historical Background of the Yarnall Library of Theology" (Offprint from ''The Library Chronicle'', University of Pennsylvania, Volume XLIII, number 2, Winter, 1979.)</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vahZAAAAMAAJ|title=Yarnall Library of Theology of St. Clement's Church, Philadelphia: The Ellis Hornor Yarnall Foundation|date=1933|publisher=Press of E. Stern & Company, Incorporated|language=en}}</ref>

===Art installations===
[[File:Covenant Liberman 1976 a.JPG|thumb|''The Covenant'', designed by artist Alexander Liberman and installed at Penn in 1975]]
The campus has more than 40 notable art installations, in part because of a 1959 Philadelphia ordinance requiring total budget for new construction or major renovation projects in which governmental resources are used to include 1% for art<ref name="Abernethy1988">{{cite book|author=Lloyd M. Abernethy|title=Benton Spruance, the Artist and the Man|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UZ1OhyLKEMIC&pg=PA119|year=1988|publisher=Associated University Presses|isbn=978-0-87982-517-1|pages=118–119}}</ref> to be used to pay for installation of site-specific public art,<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.phila.gov/2019-04-18-the-city-of-philadelphia-celebrates-60-years-of-percent-for-art/ |title=The City of Philadelphia Celebrates 60 Years of Percent for Art |publisher=City of Philadelphia |date=April 18, 2019 |access-date=March 16, 2021 |archive-date=June 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623194608/https://www.phila.gov/2019-04-18-the-city-of-philadelphia-celebrates-60-years-of-percent-for-art/ |url-status=live }}</ref> in part because many alumni collected and donated art to Penn, and in part because of the presence of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design on the campus.<ref name="artcollection.upenn.edu">{{cite web |url=http://artcollection.upenn.edu/exhibitions/campus-sculpture-tour/ |title=Campus Sculpture Tour |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=March 16, 2021 |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112195801/http://artcollection.upenn.edu/exhibitions/campus-sculpture-tour/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2020, Penn installed ''Brick House'', a monumental work of art, created by Simone Leigh at the College Green gateway to Penn's campus near the corner of 34th Street and Woodland Walk. This {{convert|5,900|lb|adj=on}} bronze sculpture, which is {{convert|16|ft}} high and {{convert|9|ft}} in diameter at its base, depicts an African woman's head crowned with an afro framed by cornrow braids atop a form that resembles both a skirt and a clay house.<ref name="Brick House">{{cite web|url=https://www.thehighline.org/art/projects/simoneleigh/|title=Brick House|website=The High Line|language=en-US|access-date=February 29, 2020|archive-date=December 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203172347/https://www.thehighline.org/art/projects/simoneleigh/|url-status=live}}</ref> At the installation,  Penn president Amy Guttman proclaimed that "Ms. Leigh's sculpture brings a striking presence of strength, grace, and beauty—along with an ineffable sense of mystery and resilience—to a central crossroad of Penn's campus."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/towering-bronze-sculpture-installed-entrance-penns-campus|title=Towering bronze sculpture installed at the entrance to Penn's campus|website=Penn Today|date=November 10, 2020|access-date=December 19, 2023|archive-date=May 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505160358/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/towering-bronze-sculpture-installed-entrance-penns-campus|url-status=live}}</ref>

The ''Covenant'', known to the student body as "Dueling Tampons"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.duelingtampons.com/?m=1|title=Dueling Tees|access-date=December 19, 2023|archive-date=April 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405140709/http://www.duelingtampons.com/?m=1|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title='Dueling Tampons' graffitied |url=http://www.thedp.com/article/2014/04/dueling-tampons-grafitti |website=The Daily Pennsylvanian |access-date=March 18, 2021 |archive-date=April 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210402012804/https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/04/dueling-tampons-grafitti |url-status=live }}</ref> or "The Tampons",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thedp.com/blog/under-the-button/2015/01/the-tampons-look-like-tampons-a-public-reminder|title=The Tampons Look Like Tampons: A Public Reminder|website=www.thedp.com|access-date=May 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605042010/http://www.thedp.com/blog/under-the-button/2015/01/the-tampons-look-like-tampons-a-public-reminder|archive-date=June 5, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> is a large red structure created by Alexander Liberman and located on Locust Walk as a gateway to the high-rise residences "super block". It was installed in 1975 and is made of rolled sheets of milled steel.

A white button, known as The Button and officially called the Split Button is a modern art sculpture designed by designed by Swedish sculptor Claes Oldenburg (who specialized in creating oversize sculptures of everyday objects). It sits at the south entrance of Van Pelt Library and has button holes large enough for people to stand inside. Penn also has a replica of the ''Love'' sculpture, part of a series created by Robert Indiana. It is a painted aluminum sculpture and was installed in 1998 overlooking College Green.<ref name="artcollection.upenn.edu"/>

In 2019, the Association for Public Art loaned Penn<ref name="twostatues">{{cite web |url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/two-monumental-sculptures-arrive-campus |title=Two monumental sculptures arrive on campus |work=Penn Today |last=Shepard |first=Louisa |date=August 23, 2019 |access-date=March 17, 2021 |archive-date=March 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304063140/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/two-monumental-sculptures-arrive-campus |url-status=live }}</ref> two multi-ton sculptures.<ref>that had been located since 1973 in the case of one and 1953 in the case of the other sculpture at West Entrance to the Philadelphia Museum of Art)</ref> The two works are ''Social Consciousness''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://titilos.sorocabana.com/thumbnails.php?album=27 |title=Social Consciousness |website=sorocabana.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070524132513/http://titilos.sorocabana.com/thumbnails.php?album=27 |archive-date=May 24, 2007}}</ref><ref name="twostatues"/> (created by Sir Jacob Epstein in 1954 and sited on the walkway between Wharton's Lippincott Library and Phi Phi chapter of Alpha Chi Rho fraternity house) and ''Atmosphere and Environment XII'' (created by Louise Nevelson in 1970, which is sited on Shoemaker Green between Franklin Field and Ringe Squash Courts).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.associationforpublicart.org/apa-now/news/apa-to-relocate-nevelson-and-epstein-sculptures-to-penn/ |title=aPA to Relocate Nevelson and Epstein Sculptures to Penn |newspaper=Association for Public Art |date=July 9, 2019 |access-date=March 17, 2021 |archive-date=March 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303151154/https://www.associationforpublicart.org/apa-now/news/apa-to-relocate-nevelson-and-epstein-sculptures-to-penn/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In addition to the contemporary art, Penn also has a number of more traditional statues including a good number created by Penn's first Director of Physical Education Department, R. Tait McKenzie.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Joseph |last1=Hanaway |first2=Richard L. |last2=Cruess |title=McGill Medicine – 1885 to 1936 |publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press |location=Montreal |year=1996 |page=56}}</ref> Among the notable sculptures is that of ''Young Ben Franklin'', which McKenzie produced and Penn sited adjacent to the fieldhouse contiguous to Franklin Field. The sculpture is titled ''[[Biography:Benjamin Franklin|Benjamin Franklin]] in 1723'' and was created by McKenzie during the pre-World War 1 era (1910–1914). Other sculptures he produced for Penn include the 1924 sculpture of then Penn provost Edgar Fahs Smith.

Penn is presently reevaluating all of its public art and has formed a working group led by Penn Design dean Frederick Steiner, who was part of a similar effort at the [[Organization:University of Texas at Austin|University of Texas at Austin]] (that led to the removal of statues of Jefferson Davis and other Confederate officials), and Penn's Chief Diversity Officer, Joann Mitchell. Penn has begun the process of adding art and removing or relocating art.<ref>{{cite web |work=Penn Today |date=April 5, 2021 |url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/reassessing-iconography-campus |title=Reassessing iconography on campus |last=Hertzler |first=Lauren |access-date=December 24, 2021 |archive-date=November 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127001829/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/reassessing-iconography-campus |url-status=live }} and {{cite news |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |title=Penn to remove statue of slavery supporter, forms group to look at campus iconography' |first=Susan |last=Snyder}} and {{cite web |url=https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/campus-iconography-group-report |title=Campus Iconography Group Report |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Almanac |access-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414155242/https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/campus-iconography-group-report |url-status=live }}</ref> Penn removed from campus in 2020 the statue of the Reverend George Whitefield (who had inspired the 1740 establishment of a trust to establish a charity school, which trust Penn legally assumed in 1749) when research showed Whitefield owned fifty enslaved people and drafted and advocated for the key theological arguments in favor of slavery in Georgia and the rest of the Thirteen Colonies.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/07/penn-whitefield-statue-removal |title=Penn announces plan to remove statue of slave owner George Whitefield from the Quad |work=The Daily Pennsylvanian |last=Weisman |first=Zoey |date=February 7, 2020 |access-date=December 24, 2021 |archive-date=April 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210401063907/https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/07/penn-whitefield-statue-removal |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Penn Museum===
[[File:Penn_Museum's_Warden_Garden_and_Main_Entrance,_Summer_2012.jpg|thumb|University Museum and Warden Garden]]
Since the Penn Museum was founded in 1887,<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Museum – Penn Museum |url=https://www.penn.museum/about/our-story |website=Penn Museum |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology |access-date=September 6, 2020 |archive-date=September 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200904102304/https://www.penn.museum/about/our-story |url-status=live }}</ref> it has taken part in 400 research projects worldwide.<ref name="About UPM">{{cite web|title=About Us|url=http://www.penn.museum/about-us.html |website=Penn Museum |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology|access-date=August 20, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521153922/http://penn.museum/about-us.html|archive-date=May 21, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> The museum's first project was an excavation of [[History:Nippur|Nippur]], a location in current day Iraq.<ref name="Penn museum research">{{cite web|title=Research at the Penn Museum|url=http://www.penn.museum/research.html|work=Penn Museum|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811205610/http://penn.museum/research.html|archive-date=August 11, 2011|access-date=August 20, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Penn Museum is home to the largest authentic sphinx in North America at about seven feet high, four feet wide, 13 feet long, and 12.9 tons (made of solid red granite).

The sphinx was discovered in 1912 by the British archeologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, during an excavation of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, Egypt, where the sphinx had guarded a temple to ward off evil. Since Petri's expedition was partially financed by Penn Petrie offered it to Penn, which arranged for it to be moved to museum in 1913. The sphinx was moved in 2019 to a more prominent spot intended to attract visitors.<ref>Crimmins, Peter (June 12, 2019). [https://whyy.org/articles/like-back-to-the-future-penn-museum-floats-its-ancient-sphinx-to-a-new-home/amp/ "Like 'Back to the Future': Penn Museum floats its ancient sphinx to a new home"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410041015/https://whyy.org/articles/like-back-to-the-future-penn-museum-floats-its-ancient-sphinx-to-a-new-home/amp/ |date=April 10, 2021 }}.</ref>

The museum has three gallery floors with artifacts from [[Place:Egypt|Egypt]], the Middle East, [[Place:Mesoamerica|Mesoamerica]], Asia, the Mediterranean, Africa and indigenous artifacts of the Americas.<ref name="About UPM"/> Its most famous object is the goat rearing into the branches of a rosette-leafed plant, from the royal tombs of Ur.

The Penn Museum's excavations and collections foster a strong research base for graduate students in the Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World. Features of the Beaux-Arts building include a rotunda and gardens that include Egyptian [[Engineering:Papyrus|papyrus]].

===Other Penn museums, galleries, and art collections ===
[[File:Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia).JPG|thumb|The Institute of Contemporary Art, known as ICA, located just South of the Graduate Towers, the residence hall for graduate and professional students at the corner of 36th Street and Sansom Street]]
Penn maintains a website providing a detailed roadmap to small museums and galleries and over one hundred locations across campus where the public can access Penn's over 8,000 artworks acquired over 250 years and includes, but is not limited to, paintings, sculptures, photography, works on paper, and decorative arts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artcollection.upenn.edu/about/curators-welcome/|title=Curator's Welcome — The Penn Art Collection|access-date=December 19, 2023|archive-date=April 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404143017/http://artcollection.upenn.edu/about/curators-welcome/|url-status=live}}</ref> The largest of the art galleries is the Institute of Contemporary Art, one of the only kunsthalles in the country, which showcases various art exhibitions throughout the year. Since 1983 the Arthur Ross Gallery, located at the Fisher Fine Arts Library, has housed Penn's art collection<ref>{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.arthurrossgallery.org/about/history/|website=Arthur Ross Gallery|access-date=December 21, 2014|archive-date=December 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221165820/http://www.arthurrossgallery.org/about/history/|url-status=live}}</ref> and is named for its benefactor, philanthropist Arthur Ross.

===Residences===
Every College House at the University of Pennsylvania has at least four members of faculty in the roles of House Dean, Faculty Master, and College House Fellows.<ref name="College House PDF">{{cite web|title=College Houses at Penn|url=http://www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/brochure/collegehouses_11-12.pdf|work=College Houses and Academic Services|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|access-date=August 19, 2011|archive-date=October 1, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001225828/http://www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/brochure/collegehouses_11-12.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Within the College Houses, Penn has nearly 40 themed residential programs for students with shared interests such as world cinema or science and technology. Many of the nearby homes and apartments in the area surrounding the campus are often rented by undergraduate students moving off campus after their first year, as well as by graduate and professional students.

The College Houses include W.E.B. Du Bois, Fisher Hassenfeld, Gregory, Gutmann, Harnwell, Harrison, Hill College House, Kings Court English, Lauder, Riepe, Rodin, Stouffer, and Ware.  The first College House was Van Pelt College House, established in the fall of 1971. It was later renamed Gregory House.<ref>{{cite web|title=College Houses & Academic Services: University of Pennsylvania|url=http://www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/brochure/index.asp|website=Collegehouses.upenn.edu|access-date=July 23, 2013|archive-date=August 12, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130812121818/http://www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/brochure/index.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref> Fisher Hassenfeld, Ware and Riepe together make up one building called "The Quad". The latest College House to be built is Guttman<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/about/gutmann | title=Gutmann College House {{pipe}} College Houses & Academic Services | access-date=June 3, 2023 | archive-date=May 28, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528211918/https://www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/about/gutmann | url-status=live }}</ref> (formerly named New College House West), which opened in the fall of 2021.<ref>{{cite web|title=Penn to Build New College House Near 40th and Walnut Streets: University of Pennsylvania|url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-build-new-college-house-near-40th-and-walnut-streets|access-date=May 15, 2019|archive-date=January 29, 2019|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129215203/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-build-new-college-house-near-40th-and-walnut-streets}}</ref>

Penn students in Junior or Senior year may live  in the 45 sororities and fraternities governed by three student-run governing councils, Interfraternity Council,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://upennifc.org/chapters/|title=Chapters|date=August 27, 2020|access-date=June 2, 2021|archive-date=June 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602214020/https://upennifc.org/chapters/|url-status=live}}</ref> Intercultural Greek Council, and Panhellenic Council.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ofsl.vpul.upenn.edu/organizations/|title=Organizations to Join – Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life|access-date=June 2, 2021|archive-date=May 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517163254/https://ofsl.vpul.upenn.edu/organizations/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
<gallery mode="packed" heights="80px">
University of Pennsylvania- its history, traditions, buildings and memorials- also a brief guide to Philadelphia (1918) (14578281487).jpg|The university's first purpose-built dormitory in the foreground (on right), built in 1765<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/campuses/first-campus/ |title=Penn's First Campus, 1749–1801 |website=University Archives and Records Center |access-date=December 12, 2022 |archive-date=December 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221212121739/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/campuses/first-campus/ |url-status=live }}</ref>|alt=
Penn campus 2.jpg|The Upper Quad, originally called The Triangle,<ref>{{cite book |first=George Erazmus |last=Nitzche |title=The University of Pennsylvania: Its History, Traditions, Buildings and Memorials |location=Philadelphia |publisher=International Printing Company |edition=7th |date=1918 |pages=62–74 |url=https://archive.org/details/universityofpenn01nitz/page/65/mode/1up?view=theater |access-date=April 5, 2021 |via=The Internet Archive}}</ref> and formerly "The Men's Dormitory", viewed from the Memorial Tower<ref>{{cite web|url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/2012-11-15/record/record-quadrangle-dormitories|title=For the Record: Quadrangle dormitories|website=Penn Today|date=November 15, 2012|access-date=December 19, 2023|archive-date=April 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405123006/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/2012-11-15/record/record-quadrangle-dormitories|url-status=live}}</ref>|alt=
Woodland Walk.jpg|Woodland Walk pathway between Hill College House and Lauder College House|alt=
Hill College House - IMG 6582.JPG|Hill College House, a dormitory designed in 1958 to house female students, was designed by Eero Saarinen|alt=
Quadrangle Building at the University of Pennsylvania.jpg|"The Quad", formerly known as the Men's Dormitory, in 2014|alt=
George W. Childs Drexel Mansion (now Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity) - University of Pennsylvania - IMG 6638.jpg|The Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house, built by George W. Childs Drexel as one of two mansions for his daughters|alt=
</gallery>

===Campus police===
The University of Pennsylvania Police Department (UPPD) is the largest, private police department in Pennsylvania, with 117 members. All officers are sworn municipal police officers and retain general law enforcement authority while on the campus.<ref name="PPD">{{cite web|title=Penn Police Department|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|url=https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/about/uppd/|access-date=November 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603025235/https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/about/uppd/|archive-date=June 3, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Academics and interdisciplinary focus==
Penn's "One University Policy" allows students to enroll in classes in any of Penn's twelve schools.<ref name="Meyerson, Martin 1973">Meyerson, Martin (January 29, 1973). "Report of the University Development Commission" (PDF). ''upenn.com''. Retrieved June 16, 2018.</ref> The College of Arts and Sciences is the undergraduate division of the School of Arts and Sciences. The School of Arts and Sciences also contains the Graduate Division and the College of Liberal and Professional Studies, which is home to the Fels Institute of Government, the master's programs in Organizational Dynamics, and the Environmental Studies (MES) program. Wharton is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania. Other schools with undergraduate programs include the School of Nursing and the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS).

Penn has a strong focus on interdisciplinary learning and research. It offers double degree programs, unique majors, and academic flexibility. Penn's "One University" policy allows undergraduates access to courses at all of Penn's undergraduate and graduate schools except the medical, veterinary and dental schools. Undergraduates at Penn may also take courses at [[Organization:Bryn Mawr College|Bryn Mawr]], [[Organization:Haverford College|Haverford]], and [[Organization:Swarthmore College|Swarthmore]] under a reciprocal agreement known as the [[Organization:Quaker Consortium|Quaker Consortium]].

=== Admissions ===
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="text-align:right;"
|+ Fall first-year statistics, by year
!
!scope="col"| 2022<ref name="CDS_2020-FF">{{cite web |title=Common Data Set 2020–2021 |url=https://ira.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/UPenn-Common-Data-Set-2020-21.pdf |website=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=January 19, 2022 |pages=35, 11 |date=June 25, 2021 |archive-date=August 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817153509/https://ira.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/UPenn-Common-Data-Set-2020-21.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
!scope="col"| 2019<ref name="CDS_2019-FF">{{cite web |title=Common Data Set 2019–2020 |url=https://ira.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/UPenn-Common-Data-Set-2019-20.pdf |website=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=January 19, 2022 |pages=35, 11 |date=May 19, 2020 |archive-date=August 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220818062310/https://ira.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/UPenn-Common-Data-Set-2019-20.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
!scope="col"| 2018<ref name="CDS_2018-FF">{{cite web |title=Common Data Set 2018–2019 |url=https://ira.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/UPenn-Common-Data-Set-2018-19.pdf |website=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=January 19, 2022 |pages=35, 11 |date=March 8, 2019 |archive-date=July 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707023032/https://ira.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/UPenn-Common-Data-Set-2018-19.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
!scope="col"| 2017<ref name="CDS_2017-FF">{{cite web |title=Common Data Set 2017–2018 |url=https://ira.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/UPenn-Common-Data-Set-2017-18.pdf |website=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=January 19, 2022 |pages=35, 11 |date=November 5, 2018 |archive-date=July 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220702085637/https://ira.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/UPenn-Common-Data-Set-2017-18.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
!scope="row"| Applicants
| 54,588
| 44,961
| 44,491
| 40,413
|-
!scope="row"| Admits
| 3,404
| 3,446
| 3,740
| 3,757
|-
!scope="row"| Admit rate
| 4.24%
| 6.66%
| 7.41%
| 8.30%
|-
!scope="row"| Enrolled
| 2,417
| 2,400
| 2,518
| 2,456
|-
!scope="row"| Yield
| 68.18%
| 69.65%
| 67.33%
| 65.37%
|-
!scope="row"| SAT range*
| 1510–1560
| 1450–1560
| 1440–1560
| 1420–1560
|-
!scope="row"| ACT range*
| 34–36
| 33–35
| 32–35
| 32–35
|}
{{asterisk}} SAT and ACT ranges are from the 25th to the 75th percentile.
Undergraduate admissions to the University of Pennsylvania is considered by ''US News'' to be "most selective". Admissions officials consider a student's GPA to be a very important academic factor, with emphasis on an applicant's high school class rank and letters of recommendation.<ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=University of Pennsylvania|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-pennsylvania-3378/applying|access-date=February 3, 2021|website=U.S. News & World Report: Education|archive-date=June 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623194344/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-pennsylvania-3378/applying|url-status=live}}</ref> Admission is need-blind for U.S., Canadian, and Mexican applicants.<ref>{{cite web |title=Financial Aid At Penn |url=https://admissions.upenn.edu/admissions-and-financial-aid/cost-and-financial-aid/financial-aid-at-penn |website=Penn admissions |access-date=December 23, 2019 |archive-date=December 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191223230031/https://admissions.upenn.edu/admissions-and-financial-aid/cost-and-financial-aid/financial-aid-at-penn |url-status=live }}</ref>

For the class of 2026, entering in Fall 2022, the university received 54,588 applications.<ref>{{cite web|last=Tilitei|first=Leanna|title=Penn accepts record-low 5.68% of applicants to the Class of 2025|url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2021/04/penn-admissions-class-of-2025-acceptance-rate|access-date=January 19, 2022|website=www.thedp.com|language=en-us|archive-date=March 17, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220317060620/https://www.thedp.com/article/2021/04/penn-admissions-class-of-2025-acceptance-rate|url-status=live}}</ref> ''The Atlantic'' also ranked Penn among the 10 most selective schools in the country. At the graduate level, based on admission statistics from ''U.S. News & World Report'', Penn's most selective programs include its law school, the health care schools (medicine, dental medicine, nursing, veterinary), the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Wharton business school.

===Coordinated dual-degree, accelerated, interdisciplinary programs===
[[File:Smith Walk, view of Towne Hall.JPG|thumb|Smith Walk with a view of Towne Building and the Engineering Quad]]
Penn offers unique and specialized [[Social:Double degree|coordinated dual-degree]] (CDD) programs, which selectively award candidates degrees from multiple schools at the university upon completion of graduation criteria of both schools in addition to program-specific programs and senior capstone projects. Additionally, there are accelerated and interdisciplinary programs offered by the university. These undergraduate programs include:
* Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business<ref>{{cite web|url=https://huntsman.upenn.edu/|title=The Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business|website=The Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business|access-date=January 16, 2022|archive-date=January 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118182853/https://huntsman.upenn.edu/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology (M&T)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fisher.wharton.upenn.edu/|title=Home|website=Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology|access-date=January 16, 2022|archive-date=January 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118182435/https://fisher.wharton.upenn.edu/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Roy and Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management (LSM)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lsm.upenn.edu/|title=Home {{pipe}} Penn Life Sciences & Management Program|website=lsm.upenn.edu|access-date=January 16, 2022|archive-date=January 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116184138/https://lsm.upenn.edu/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Nursing and Health Care Management (NHCM)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/nhcm/|title=Nursing and Healthcare Management Dual Degree Program|website=www.nursing.upenn.edu|access-date=January 16, 2022|archive-date=January 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118182551/https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/nhcm/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Roy and Diana Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.viper.upenn.edu/|title=VIPER {{pipe}} Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research {{pipe}} Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research|website=www.viper.upenn.edu|access-date=January 16, 2022|archive-date=January 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116184139/https://www.viper.upenn.edu/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Vagelos Scholars Program in Molecular Life Sciences (MLS)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sas.upenn.edu/biochem/faq.html|title=Vagelos MLS Scholars: Frequently Asked Questions|website=www.sas.upenn.edu|access-date=January 16, 2022|archive-date=January 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116184134/https://www.sas.upenn.edu/biochem/faq.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Singh Program in Networked and Social Systems Engineering (NETS)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nets.upenn.edu/|title=Networked & Social Systems Engineering|access-date=January 16, 2022|archive-date=January 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116184138/https://www.nets.upenn.edu/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Digital Media Design (DMD)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cg.cis.upenn.edu/dmd.html|title=CG@Penn {{pipe}} DMD Program|website=cg.cis.upenn.edu|access-date=January 16, 2022|archive-date=November 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124222423/http://cg.cis.upenn.edu/dmd.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Computer and Cognitive Science: Artificial Intelligence<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cis.upenn.edu/undergraduate/program-options/computer-and-cognitive-science-dual-degree/|title=Computer and Cognitive Science Dual Degree|access-date=January 16, 2022|archive-date=January 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118182635/https://www.cis.upenn.edu/undergraduate/program-options/computer-and-cognitive-science-dual-degree/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Accelerated 7-Year Bio-Dental Program<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bio.upenn.edu/undergraduate/submatriculation/accelerated-dental-program|title=Seven Year Bio-Dental Program {{pipe}} Department of Biology|website=www.bio.upenn.edu|access-date=January 16, 2022|archive-date=January 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118182512/https://www.bio.upenn.edu/undergraduate/submatriculation/accelerated-dental-program|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Accelerated 6-Year Law and Medicine Program<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20160623_Penn_to_launch_joint_degree_program_in_law_and_medicine.html|title=Penn to launch joint degree program in law and medicine|website=Philly.com|date=June 22, 2016 |access-date=June 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160623143541/http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20160623_Penn_to_launch_joint_degree_program_in_law_and_medicine.html|archive-date=June 23, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

Dual-degree programs that lead to the same multiple degrees without participation in the specific above programs are also available. Unlike CDD programs, "dual degree" students fulfill requirements of both programs independently without the involvement of another program. Specialized dual-degree programs include Liberal Studies and Technology as well as an Artificial Intelligence: Computer and Cognitive Science Program. Both programs award a degree from the College of Arts and Sciences and a degree from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Also, the Vagelos Scholars Program in Molecular Life Sciences allows its students to either double major in the sciences or submatriculate and earn both a BA and an MS in four years. The most recent Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER) was first offered for the class of 2016. A joint program of Penn's School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, VIPER leads to dual Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science in Engineering degrees by combining majors from each school.

For graduate programs, Penn offers many formalized double degree graduate degrees such as a joint J.D./MBA and maintains a list of interdisciplinary institutions, such as the Institute for Medicine and Engineering, the Joseph H. Lauder Institute for Management and International Studies, and the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science.

The University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice, commonly known as Penn SP2, is a school of [[Social:Social policy|social policy]] and [[Social:Social work|social work]] that offers degrees in a variety of subfields, in addition to several dual degree programs and sub-matriculation programs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/programs/index.html|title=SP2 Programs|access-date=May 16, 2020|archive-date=June 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140622205941/http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/programs/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.petersons.com/graduate-schools/university-of-pennsylvania-school-of-social-policy-and-practice-program-in-social-work-000_10013879.aspx|title=Peterson's National Guide University of Pennsylvania SP2|publisher=Petersons|access-date=May 16, 2020|archive-date=May 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523105504/https://www.petersons.com/graduate-schools/university-of-pennsylvania-school-of-social-policy-and-practice-program-in-social-work-000_10013879.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/degree-programs/dual-degree-programs/overview/about-the-programs/|title=About the Programs {{!}} School of Social Policy & Practice|website=www.sp2.upenn.edu|access-date=June 30, 2016|archive-date=July 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730133126/http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/degree-programs/dual-degree-programs/overview/about-the-programs/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Penn SP2's vision is: "The passionate pursuit of social innovation, impact and [[Philosophy:Justice|justice]]."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/about/index.html|title=About SP2|publisher=University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice|access-date=May 16, 2020|archive-date=July 15, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715142716/http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/about/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Originally named the School of Social Work, SP2 was founded in 1908 and is a graduate school of the University of Pennsylvania. The school specializes in research, education, and policy development in relation to both social and economic issues.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/about/index.html|title=SP2 Vision|access-date=May 16, 2020|archive-date=July 15, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715142716/http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/about/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.graduateguide.com/university_of_pennsylvania_school_of_social_policy__and__practice.html|title=SP2 School of Social Policy & Practice|date=August 10, 2018|publisher=Graduate Guide|access-date=May 16, 2020|archive-date=October 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014160149/http://www.graduateguide.com/university_of_pennsylvania_school_of_social_policy__and__practice.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The School of Veterinary Medicine offers five dual-degree programs, combining the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (VMD) with a Master of Social Work (MSW), Master of Environmental Studies (MES), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Master of Public Health (MPH) or Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degree. The Penn Vet dual-degree programs are meant to support veterinarians planning to engage in interdisciplinary work in the areas of human health, environmental health, and animal health and welfare.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hackett |first=Martin |title=Penn Vet expands timely dual degree during COVID-19 pandemic {{!}} Penn Today |url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-vet-expands-timely-dual-degree-during-covid-19-pandemic |website=Penn Today |date=September 11, 2020 |access-date=September 14, 2020 |archive-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929182807/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-vet-expands-timely-dual-degree-during-covid-19-pandemic |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Academic medical center and biomedical research complex===
In 2018, the university's nursing school was ranked number one by Quacquarelli Symonds.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/03/penn-upenn-nursing-ranking-top-qs-world-global-ivy-satisfaction-league-philadelphia|title=Penn Nursing ranked top in the world, but receives mediocre score for 'employer reputation'|last=Chin|first=Zachary|work=The Daily Pennsylvanian|access-date=February 25, 2020|archive-date=February 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225161811/https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/03/penn-upenn-nursing-ranking-top-qs-world-global-ivy-satisfaction-league-philadelphia|url-status=live}}</ref> That year, Quacquarelli Symonds also ranked Penn's school of Veterinary Medicine sixth.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2018/feb/28/qs-world-university-rankings-2018-veterinary-science|title=QS world university rankings 2018: veterinary science|date=February 28, 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=February 25, 2020|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=February 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225161814/https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2018/feb/28/qs-world-university-rankings-2018-veterinary-science|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2019, the Perelman School of Medicine was named the third-best medical school for research in ''U.S. News & World Report's'' 2020 ranking.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/03/perelman-school-of-medicine-ranking-us-news-third-place-penn|title=Perelman School of Medicine ranked third place for research in U.S. News report|last=Hachenburg|first=Carmina|work=The Daily Pennsylvanian|access-date=February 25, 2020|archive-date=February 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225161822/https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/03/perelman-school-of-medicine-ranking-us-news-third-place-penn|url-status=live}}</ref>

The University of Pennsylvania Health System, also known as UPHS, is a multi-hospital [[Medicine:Health system|health system]] headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, owned by Trustees of University of Pennsylvania. UPHS and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania together constitute Penn Medicine, a clinical and research entity of the University of Pennsylvania. UPHS hospitals include the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/capital/penn-medicine-to-open-1-6b-hospital-in-october.html |title=Penn Medicine to open $1.6B hospital in October |website=Becker's Hospital Review |last=Ellison |first=Alya |date=September 22, 2021 |access-date=December 24, 2021 |archive-date=October 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022191354/https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/capital/penn-medicine-to-open-1-6b-hospital-in-october.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Pennsylvania Hospital, Chester County Hospital, Lancaster General Hospital, and Princeton Medical Center.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/pa/hospital-of-the-university-of-pennsylvania-6231900 |title=Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian |work=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=December 24, 2021 |archive-date=February 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220213174833/https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/pa/hospital-of-the-university-of-pennsylvania-6231900 |url-status=live }}</ref> Penn Medicine owns and operates the first hospital in the United States, the Pennsylvania Hospital.<ref name="AmericasFirstHospital">{{cite book | title=America's First Hospital: The Pennsylvania Hospital, 1751–1841 | url=https://archive.org/details/americasfirsthos0000will | url-access=registration | publisher=Haverford House | last=Williams |first=William Henry | year=1976 | isbn=9780910702027}}</ref> It is also home to America's first surgical amphitheatre<ref name="pennmedicine.org">{{cite web|title=Visitor Information for Pennsylvania Hospital|url=http://www.pennmedicine.org/pahosp/visitor-information/|work=University of Pennsylvania|publisher=Penn Medicine|access-date=September 23, 2021|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032038/http://www.pennmedicine.org/pahosp/visitor-information/|url-status=live}}</ref> and its first medical library.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Weise|first=F|date=Jan 2004|title=Being there: the library as place.|journal=Journal of the Medical Library Association|volume=92|issue=1|pages=6–13|pmc=314099|pmid=14762459}}</ref>

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===International partnerships===
Students can study abroad for a semester or a year at partner institutions, which include the Singapore Management University, [[Organization:London School of Economics|London School of Economics]], [[Organization:University of Edinburgh|University of Edinburgh]], Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Melbourne, Sciences Po, University of Queensland, [[Organization:University College London|University College London]], [[Organization:King's College London|King's College London]], [[Organization:Hebrew University of Jerusalem|Hebrew University of Jerusalem]], and [[Organization:ETH Zurich|ETH Zurich]].

===Reputation and rankings===
{{Infobox US university ranking
|ARWU_W = 14 of 901
|QS_W = 12 of 1498
|THE_WSJ = 7 of 400
|THES_W = 16 of 501
|USNWR_NU = 6 of 394
|USNWR_W = 15 of 2165
|Wamo_NU = 4 of 442
|Forbes = 8 of 500
}}

''U.S. News & World Report''{{'}}s 2024 rankings place Penn 6th of 394 national universities in the United States.<ref>https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities accessed January 6, 2024</ref> The Princeton Review student survey ranked Penn in 2023 as 7th in their Dream Colleges list.<ref>https://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings/college-hopes-worries access-date January 20, 2024</ref> Penn was ranked 4th of 444 in the United States by College Factual for 2024.<ref>https://www.collegefactual.com/rankings/best-colleges/ accessed January 2024</ref> In 2023, Penn was ranked as having the 7th happiest students in the United States (the highest in the Ivy League).<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.pennlive.com/life/2023/03/pa-university-among-top-happiest-colleges-in-us-report.html | title=Pa. University among top 'happiest colleges' in U.S.: Report | newspaper=Pennlive | date=March 27, 2023 | access-date=March 30, 2023 | archive-date=March 30, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330060811/https://www.pennlive.com/life/2023/03/pa-university-among-top-happiest-colleges-in-us-report.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/03/penn-ranked-happiest-university-pennsylvania-seventh-national | title=Penn ranked happiest college in Pennsylvania, No. 7-happiest in country by new study | last1=Binday | first1=Ben | access-date=April 2, 2023 | archive-date=April 2, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402041952/https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/03/penn-ranked-happiest-university-pennsylvania-seventh-national | url-status=live }}</ref>

====Graduate and professional programs====
Among its professional schools, the school of education was ranked number one in 2021 and Wharton School of Business was ranked number one in 2022,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/mba-rankings |title=2023 Best Business Schools |website=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=March 30, 2022 |archive-date=March 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314003952/https://www.usnews.com/best%2Dgraduate%2Dschools/top%2Dbusiness%2Dschools/mba%2Drankings |url-status=live }}</ref> the communication, dentistry, medicine, nursing, law  and veterinary medicine schools rank in the top 5 nationally.<ref name="auto1">{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/university-of-pennsylvania-215062/overall-rankings|title=University of Pennsylvania Grad Schools|website=U.S. News & World Report|access-date=March 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190320130149/https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/university-of-pennsylvania-215062/overall-rankings|archive-date=March 20, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Penn's Law School was ranked number 4 in 2023<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/law-rankings |title=2023 Best Law Schools |website=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=January 13, 2024 |archive-date=January 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240113091457/https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/law-rankings |url-status=live }}</ref> and Design school, and its School of Social Policy and Practice are ranked in the top 10<ref name="auto1"/>

==Research and discoveries==
[[File:Eniac.jpg|thumb|ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer, was founded at Penn in 1946]]
Penn is [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] as an "R1" doctoral university: "Highest research activity."<ref name="RU/VH">{{cite web |title=University of Pennsylvania |url=http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=215062 |publisher=Center for Postsecondary Research |date=2018 |access-date=August 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180806025108/http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=215062 |archive-date=August 6, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> Its economic impact on the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 2015 amounted to $14.3&nbsp;billion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mobile.philly.com/business/?wss=/philly/business&id=369185191&betaPreview=redesign|title=Study: Penn has $14.3B economic impact|date=February 18, 2016|access-date=February 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160301212924/http://mobile.philly.com/business/?wss=%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness&id=369185191&betaPreview=redesign|archive-date=March 1, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Penn's research expenditures in the 2018 fiscal year were $1.442 billion, the fourth largest in the U.S.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/2018/html/herd18-dt-tab020.html |title=Table 20. Higher education R&D expenditures, ranked by FY 2018 R&D expenditures: FYs 2009–18 |publisher=National Science Foundation |access-date=May 2, 2020 |archive-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930141919/https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/2018/html/herd18-dt-tab020.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In fiscal year 2019 Penn received $582.3 million in funding from the [[Organization:National Institutes of Health|National Institutes of Health]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?ot=&fy=2019&state=&ic=&fm=&orgid=&distr=&rfa=&om=n&pid= |title=NIH Awards by Location & Organization |publisher=National Institutes of Health |access-date=May 2, 2020 |archive-date=May 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200510232335/https://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?ot=&fy=2019&state=&ic=&fm=&orgid=&distr=&rfa=&om=n&pid= |url-status=live }}</ref>

Penn's research centers often span two or more disciplines. In the 2010–2011 academic year, five interdisciplinary research centers were created or substantially expanded; these include the Center for Health-care Financing,<ref>{{cite news|title=New Penn Medicine/Wharton Center to Study Health-care Financing|url=http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/new-center-study-health-care-financing|access-date=September 4, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031005716/http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/new-center-study-health-care-financing|archive-date=October 31, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> the Center for Global Women's Health at the Nursing School,<ref name="Nursing Goes Global">{{cite news|title=Nursing Goes Global |url=https://penncurrent.upenn.edu/2011-06-09/news-brief/nursing-goes-global/|publisher=Penn Current |date=June 9, 2011|access-date=May 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604194258/https://penncurrent.upenn.edu/2011-06-09/news-brief/nursing-goes-global/|archive-date=June 4, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> the $13&nbsp;million Morris Arboretum's Horticulture Center,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/spotlights/morris-arboretum-sustainability|title=Morris Arboretum's Horticulture Center is a Model of Workaday Sustainability|access-date=August 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605024346/http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/spotlights/morris-arboretum-sustainability|archive-date=June 5, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> the $15&nbsp;million Jay H. Baker Retailing Center at Wharton<ref name=bakercenter>{{cite web|title=Wharton School Announces $15 Million Gift from Patty and Jay H. Baker to Establish the Jay H. Baker Retailing Center|date=October 28, 2010|url=http://news.wharton.upenn.edu/press-releases/2010/10/wharton-school-announces-15-million-gift-from-patty-and-jay-h-baker-to-establish-the-jay-h-baker-retailing-center/|publisher=The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania|access-date=October 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141010224456/http://news.wharton.upenn.edu/press-releases/2010/10/wharton-school-announces-15-million-gift-from-patty-and-jay-h-baker-to-establish-the-jay-h-baker-retailing-center/|archive-date=October 10, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> and the $13&nbsp;million Translational Research Center at Penn Medicine.<ref>{{cite news|title=Penn Med receives $13&nbsp;million for new research center|url=http://www.thedp.com/article/penn-med-receives-13-million-new-research-center|author=Nadine Zylberberg|date=September 17, 2010|newspaper=The Daily Pennsylvanian|access-date=April 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110829004648/http://thedp.com/article/penn-med-receives-13-million-new-research-center|archive-date=August 29, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> With these additions, Penn now counts 165 research centers hosting a research community of over 4,300 faculty and over 1,100 postdoctoral fellows, 5,500 academic support staff and graduate student trainees.<ref name="Penn: Penn Facts"/> To further assist the advancement of interdisciplinary research President [[Biography:Amy Gutmann|Amy Gutmann]] established the "Penn Integrates Knowledge" title awarded to selected Penn professors "whose research and teaching exemplify the integration of knowledge".<ref name="PIK Professors">{{cite web|url=https://pikprofessors.upenn.edu|title=Penn's PIK Professors|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191011115012/https://pikprofessors.upenn.edu/|archive-date=October 11, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> These professors hold endowed professorships and joint appointments between Penn's schools.

Penn is also among the most prolific producers of doctoral students. With 487 PhDs awarded in 2009, Penn ranks third in the Ivy League, only behind [[Organization:Columbia University|Columbia]] and Cornell (Harvard did not report data).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/09tables.xls|title=Association of Research Libraries Annual Tables|access-date=August 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117065649/http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/09tables.xls|archive-date=January 17, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> It also has one of the highest numbers of post-doctoral appointees (933 in number for 2004–2007), ranking third in the Ivy League (behind Harvard and Yale) and tenth nationally.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mup.asu.edu/AnyFed2002-2007/Postdoc_App_2001-2007.xls|title=MUP Post Doctoral Appointees Table|access-date=August 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822182913/http://mup.asu.edu/AnyFed2002-2007/Postdoc_App_2001-2007.xls|archive-date=August 22, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In most disciplines Penn professors' productivity is among the highest in the nation and first in the fields of epidemiology, business, communication studies, comparative literature, languages, information science, criminal justice and criminology, social sciences and sociology.<ref name="chronicle.com">{{cite web|url=http://chronicle.com/stats/productivity/page.php?year=2007&institution=3257&byinst=Go|title=The Chronicle of Higher Education Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index|access-date=August 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117162745/http://chronicle.com/stats/productivity/page.php?year=2007&institution=3257&byinst=Go|archive-date=January 17, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> According to the National Research Council nearly three-quarters of Penn's 41 assessed programs were placed in ranges including the top 10 rankings in their fields, with more than half of these in ranges including the top five rankings in these fields.<ref>{{cite web|last=Holtzman|first=Phyllis|title=National Research Council Ranks Penn's Graduate Programs Among Nation's Best|url=http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/national-research-council-ranks-penn-s-graduate-programs-among-nations-best|work=Penn News|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|access-date=November 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630113527/http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/national-research-council-ranks-penn-s-graduate-programs-among-nations-best|archive-date=June 30, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

Penn's research tradition has historically been complemented by innovations that shaped higher education. In addition to establishing the first medical school, the first university teaching hospital, the oldest continuously operating degree-granting program in [[Chemistry:Chemical engineering|chemical engineering]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://cbe.seas.upenn.edu/fast-facts/ | title=Fast Facts | access-date=December 31, 2022 | archive-date=December 31, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221231200656/https://cbe.seas.upenn.edu/fast-facts/ | url-status=live }}</ref> the first business school, and the first student union, Penn was also the cradle of other significant developments.

In 1852, Penn Law was the first law school in the nation to publish a law journal still in existence (then called ''The American Law Register,'' now the ''Penn Law Review'', one of the most cited law journals in the world).<ref>{{cite web|title=Law Journals: Submissions and Ranking|url=http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/index.aspx|publisher=Washington and Lee University School of Law|access-date=November 10, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111121012415/http://lawlib.wlu.edu/lj/index.aspx|archive-date=November 21, 2011}}</ref> Under the deanship of William Draper Lewis, the law school was also one of the first schools to emphasize legal teaching by full-time professors instead of practitioners, a system that is still followed today.<ref>Owen Roberts, "William Draper Lewis", 89 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1 (1949)</ref>

The Wharton School was home to several pioneering developments in business education. It established the first research center in a business school in 1921 and the first center for entrepreneurship center in 1973<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/about/wharton-history.cfm|title=Wharton History|newspaper=The Wharton School |access-date=August 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110828064630/http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/about/wharton-history.cfm|archive-date=August 28, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> and it regularly introduced novel curricula for which ''BusinessWeek'' wrote, "Wharton is on the crest of a wave of reinvention and change in management education".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/innovationHistory/leaders.html|title=Wharton: A Century of Innovation|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116181606/http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/innovationHistory/leaders.html|archive-date=January 16, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Best B Schools Move over, Northwestern – this time, Wharton is No. 1|url=http://www.businessweek.com/1989-94/pre94/b339564.htm|access-date=November 10, 2011|newspaper=Businessweek|date=October 24, 1994|author=John Byrne|author2=Lori Bongiorno|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102110445/http://www.businessweek.com/1989-94/pre94/b339564.htm|archive-date=November 2, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> The university has also contributed major advancements in the fields of economics and management. Among the many discoveries are [[Conjoint analysis|conjoint analysis]], widely used as a predictive tool especially in market research, [[Biography:Simon Kuznets|Simon Kuznets]]'s method of measuring Gross National Product,<ref name="125 Influential People and Ideas">{{cite web|url=http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/infodocs/alum_mag/am07anniv.pdf|title=125 Influential People and Ideas|access-date=August 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610064028/http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/infodocs/alum_mag/am07anniv.pdf|archive-date=June 10, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> the Penn effect (the observation that consumer price levels in richer countries are systematically higher than in poorer ones) and the "Wharton Model"<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/727461/Wharton-Model|title=Wharton Model (economics) – Britannica Online Encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Britannica.com|access-date=March 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919212318/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/727461/Wharton-Model|archive-date=September 19, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> developed by Nobel-laureate [[Biography:Lawrence Klein|Lawrence Klein]] to measure and forecast economic activity. The idea behind Health Maintenance Organizations also belonged to Penn professor Robert Eilers, who put it into practice during then-President Nixon's health reform in the 1970s.<ref name="125 Influential People and Ideas"/>

Several major scientific discoveries have also taken place at Penn. The university is probably best known as the place where the first general-purpose electronic computer (ENIAC) was born in 1946 at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering.<ref name="Moore Engineering">{{cite web|url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/computers/intro.html|title=Important Milestones and Fascinating Innovations During the Last Fifty Years of Computing Research at the University of Pennsylvania|access-date=August 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009144750/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/computers/intro.html|archive-date=October 9, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> It was here also where the world's first spelling and grammar checkers were created, as well as the popular [[COBOL]] programming language.<ref name="Moore Engineering"/>

Penn can also boast some of the most important discoveries in the field of medicine. The [[Engineering:Kidney dialysis|dialysis]] machine used as an artificial replacement for lost kidney function was conceived and devised out of a pressure cooker by William Inouye while he was still a student at Penn Med;<ref name="Medical Innovations">{{cite web|url=http://www.med.upenn.edu/research/visitors/highlights.shtml|title=Some Research Highlights at Penn Medicine|access-date=August 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110620150709/http://www.med.upenn.edu/research/visitors/highlights.shtml|archive-date=June 20, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> the [[Medicine:Rubella|Rubella]] and [[Medicine:Hepatitis B|Hepatitis B]] vaccines were developed at Penn;<ref name="Medical Innovations"/> the discovery of cancer's link with genes, [[Medicine:Cognitive therapy|cognitive therapy]], Retin-A (the cream used to treat acne), [[Biology:Resistin|Resistin]], the Philadelphia gene (linked to chronic myelogenous leukemia) and the technology behind PET Scans were all discovered by Penn Med researchers.<ref name="Medical Innovations"/> More recent gene research has led to the discovery of the (a) genes for [[Medicine:Fragile X syndrome|fragile X syndrome]], the most common form of inherited mental retardation; (b) [[Medicine:Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy|spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy]], a disorder marked by progressive muscle wasting; (c) [[Medicine:Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease|Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease]], a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects the hands, feet and limbs;<ref name="Medical Innovations"/> and (d)
genetically engineered T cells used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia and refractory diffuse large B cell lymphoma.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.med.upenn.edu/cci/junelab/|title=June Lab|website=Penn Medicine Center for Cellular Immunotherapies|access-date=July 24, 2021|archive-date=August 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820221523/https://www.med.upenn.edu/cci/junelab/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>T Cell cancer therapy research conducted by Carl H. June who, as of July 2021, is the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania see also {{cite web |url=https://www.amc.edu/news/trailblazing-researchers-in-immunotherapy-selected-to-receive-americas-most-distinguished-prize-in-medicine.cfm |title=Trailblazing Researchers in Immunotherapy Selected to Receive America's Most Distinguished Prize in Medicine |publisher=Albany Medical College |date=August 15, 2018 |access-date=July 24, 2021 |archive-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213022052/https://www.amc.edu/news/trailblazing-researchers-in-immunotherapy-selected-to-receive-americas-most-distinguished-prize-in-medicine.cfm |url-status=live }}</ref> Another contribution to medicine was made by Ralph L. Brinster (Penn faculty member since 1965) who developed the scientific basis for in vitro fertilization and the transgenic mouse at Penn and was awarded the National Medal of Science in 2010.

Penn professors [[Biography:Alan J. Heeger|Alan J. Heeger]], [[Biography:Alan MacDiarmid|Alan MacDiarmid]] and [[Biography:Hideki Shirakawa|Hideki Shirakawa]] invented a [[Chemistry:Conductive polymer|conductive polymer]] process that earned them the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The theory of [[Physics:BCS theory|superconductivity]] was also partly developed at Penn, by then-faculty member [[Biography:John Robert Schrieffer|John Robert Schrieffer]] (along with [[Biography:John Bardeen|John Bardeen]] and [[Biography:Leon Cooper|Leon Cooper]]).

==Student life==

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center; float:right; font-size:95%; margin-left:2em;"
|+ Ethnic breakdown of enrollment
!scope="col"| Ethnic enrollment,<br />fall 2018<ref name=CDS1>{{cite web|url=http://www.upenn.edu/ir/Common%20Data%20Set/UPenn%20Common%20Data%20Set%202017-18.pdf?pdf=CDS%202017-18 |title=University of Pennsylvania Common Data Set 2017–2018, Part B2 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=November 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125030709/http://www.upenn.edu/ir/Common%20Data%20Set/UPenn%20Common%20Data%20Set%202017-18.pdf?pdf=CDS%202017-18|archive-date=November 25, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
!scope="col" data-sort-type=number | Number (percentage)<br />of undergraduates
|-
!scope="row"| African American
|715 (7.1%)
|-
!scope="row"| Native American
|12 (0.1%)
|-
!scope="row"| Asian American and<br />Pacific Islander
|2,084 (20.7%)
|-
!scope="row"| Hispanic and<br />Latino American
|1,044 (10.4%)
|-
!scope="row"| White
|4,278 (42.6%)
|-
!scope="row"| International
|1,261 (12.6%)
|-
!scope="row"| Two or more races,<br />non-Hispanic
|460 (4.6%)
|-
!scope="row"| Unknown
|179 (1.8%)
|-
!scope="row"| Total
|10,033 (100%)
|}

=== Demographics and diversity ===
[[File:Sadalex2.jpg|thumb|upright|Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. in economics in the United States]]
Jonathan and Philip Gayienquitioga, two brothers of the Mohawk Nation,<ref>{{cite web|title=Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs – Akwesasne, NY|url=http://www.mohawknation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=56|access-date=July 24, 2021|website=www.mohawknation.org|archive-date=August 11, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811190057/http://www.mohawknation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=56|url-status=live}}</ref> were recruited by Benjamin Franklin to attend the Academy of Philadelphia,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://nais.sas.upenn.edu/about/history-native-american-studies-penn | title=History: Native American Studies at Penn {{pipe}} Native American & Indigenous Studies at Penn | access-date=February 28, 2021 | archive-date=December 14, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214055159/https://nais.sas.upenn.edu/about/history-native-american-studies-penn | url-status=live }}</ref> making them the first Native Americans at Penn when they enrolled in 1755.<ref>{{cite web |title=History: Native American Studies at Penn |url=https://nais.sas.upenn.edu/about/history-native-american-studies-penn |website=Native American & Indigenous Studies at Penn |access-date=February 28, 2021 |archive-date=December 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214055159/https://nais.sas.upenn.edu/about/history-native-american-studies-penn |url-status=live }}</ref> Moses Levy, the first Jewish student, enrolled in 1769 (and was also elected Penn's first Jewish trustee in 1802, serving to 1826).<ref>{{cite web |author=A Committee of the Society of the Alumni |title=Biographical catalogue of the matriculates of the college together with lists of the members of the college faculty and the trustees, officers and recipients of honorary degrees, 1749–1893 |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalcata00univrich/page/18/mode/1up?view=theater&q=moses+levy |publisher=Avil Printing Company |location=Philadelphia |page=18 |date=1894 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Joseph M. Urquiola (aka José María de Urquiola y Fernández de Zúñiga), School of Medicine class of 1829 was the first Latino (from Cuba)<ref name="Arch-Timeline-1740" /><ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Maxwell |editor-first=Will J. |title=General Alumni Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania, 1917 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania General Alumni Society |page=597}}</ref><ref>Urquiola's March 1829 dissertation {{cite web |url=https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_992848043503681 |title=Essay on Menstruation |last=Urquiola |first=Joseph M. |date=1829 |website=Penn Libraries Franklin |access-date=September 1, 2021 |archive-date=September 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901130930/https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_992848043503681 |url-status=live }} was cited in August 2021. See {{cite web |url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/two-centuries-old-handwritten-record-medical-education |title=Two centuries old, a handwritten record of medical education |work=Penn Today |last=Shepard |first=Louisa |date=August 10, 2021 |access-date=September 1, 2021 |archive-date=September 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901132012/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/two-centuries-old-handwritten-record-medical-education |url-status=live }}</ref> and Auxencio Maria Pena, School of Medicine class of 1836, was the first South American (from Venezuela)<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dik4AAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Auxencio+Maria+Pena%22&pg=PA217 |title=Biographical Memoranda Respecting All who Ever Were Members of the Class of 1832 |publisher=Yale University |date=1880 |page=217 |access-date=March 30, 2021 |via=Google Books |archive-date=December 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231219163656/https://books.google.com/books?id=dik4AAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Auxencio+Maria+Pena%22&pg=PA217#v=onepage&q=%22Auxencio%20Maria%20Pena%22&f=false |url-status=live }} (note: Venezuela was officially known as Captaincy General of Venezuela, a department of Spain, when Pena was born)</ref> to graduate from Penn.

William Adger, James Brister, and Nathan Francis Mossell in 1879 were the first African Americans to enroll at Penn. Adger was the first African American to graduate from the college at Penn (1883),<ref name="PT-Adger">{{cite web |last=Davis |first=Heather A. |title=For the Record: William Adger |url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/for-the-record/for-the-record-william-adger |website=Penn Today, University of Pennsylvania |date=September 21, 2017 |access-date=February 28, 2021 |archive-date=June 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623194522/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/for-the-record/for-the-record-william-adger |url-status=live }}</ref> and when Brister graduated from the School of Dental Medicine (Penn Dental) (class of 1881), he was the first African American to earn a degree at Penn.<ref>{{cite web |title=James Brister |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/james-brister |website=University Archives and Records Center |publisher=Penn |access-date=February 28, 2021 |archive-date=February 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228043551/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/james-brister |url-status=live }}</ref> Mossell was first African American to graduate from Penn Med (1882)<ref>{{cite web |title=Nathan Francis Mossell |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/nathan-francis-mossell |website=University Archives and Records Center |publisher=Penn |access-date=February 28, 2021 |archive-date=February 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214210037/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/nathan-francis-mossell |url-status=live }}</ref> (and had a brother, Aaron Albert Mossell II who was the first African American graduate of University of Pennsylvania Law School (in 1888) and <ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sadieconference.com/history.htm | title=The 18th Annual Sadie T. M. Alexander Commemorative Conference | access-date=November 13, 2006 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050217180340/http://www.sadieconference.com/history.htm | archive-date=February 17, 2005 }}</ref> niece, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, Albert's daughter, who not only was first African American woman to graduate from Penn Law (in 1927) and be admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania, but prior to such noteworthy accomplishments was the first African American woman to earn a PhD in the United States (from Penn in 1922)).<ref name="Boston1997">{{cite book |last=Malveaux |first=Julianne |editor=Thomas D. Boston |title=A Different Vision: Africa American economic thought |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WMwRwp9QImAC&pg=PA123 |via=Google Books |access-date=June 4, 2013 |volume=1 |year=1997 |publisher=Routledge, Chapman, & Hall |isbn=978-0-415-12715-8 |pages=123ff |chapter=Missed opportunity: Sadie Teller Mossell Alexander and the economics profession}}</ref> Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander's uncle (via her mother's Tanner family), Lewis Baxter Moore, in 1896 became the first person of African descent to earn a doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania and only the fifth black person in the United States to earn a doctor of philosophy degree<ref>{{cite news | url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/lewis-baxter-moore/ | title=Lewis Baxter Moore | newspaper=University Archives and Records Center | access-date=November 18, 2022 | archive-date=November 18, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118040106/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/lewis-baxter-moore/ | url-status=live }}</ref> and in 1899 founded the Teachers College (now known as the School of Education) of Howard University and served as its dean continuously from 1899 through September 1920.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://dbcs.rutgers.edu/all-scholars/8951-moore-lewis-baxter | title=MOORE, Lewis Baxter | access-date=November 18, 2022 | archive-date=November 18, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118040111/https://dbcs.rutgers.edu/all-scholars/8951-moore-lewis-baxter | url-status=live }}</ref>

Tosui<!-- His first name, transliterated from Japanese alphabets, is sometimes spelled Tosni and since I am not sure which is correct (as even Penn archives uses both) I am using this footnote and encouraging someone to figure it out BUT keep this footnote as valuable information is revealed by searching on both versions.--> Imadate was the first person of Asian descent to graduate from Penn (College <ref>J. William White, Biography by Agnes Repplier, page 220, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin 1919</ref> Class of 1879).<ref>{{cite web |title=Tosni Imadate (born 1856), B.S. 1879, portrait photograph |url=http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/archives/20070815001 |via=Artstor |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=February 28, 2021 |archive-date=December 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231219163712/https://library.artstor.org/#/collection/87732016 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1877, Imadate became the first Asian member of a fraternity at Penn when he became a brother at Phi Kappa Psi.<ref>File:Grand catalogue of the Phi kappa psi fraternity, 1922; (IA grandcatalogueof01phik).pdf</ref> In a quote from a portion of a letter published in December 1880 issue of ''The Crescent'', Imadate is described by a Phi Kappa Psi brother as a "brother member of Penn's I [iota] chapter of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, who is a professor in college at Kiota [([[Place:Kyoto|Kyoto]], Japan)]".<ref>[http://www.deltataudeltaarchive.com/archives/1880/ ''The Crescent''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410152506/http://www.deltataudeltaarchive.com/archives/1880/ |date=April 10, 2021 }} (December 1880, Volume 3, Issue No. 4, page 39, column 2, first full paragraph)  accessed April 10, 2021</ref><ref>It is possible that Imadate was a professor at what is now known as Kyoto University of Education as Kyoto University was not established until the 1890s{{cite web|title=Kyoto University of Education {{!}} Ranking & Review|url=https://www.4icu.org/reviews/2686.htm|access-date=July 24, 2021|website=www.4icu.org|archive-date=April 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410152506/https://www.4icu.org/reviews/2686.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

Fuji Tsukamoto, Penn Graduate School Class of 1889, became the first woman of Asian descent to matriculate at Penn when she started her study of biology and botany in 1885 and, like Tosui Imadate, also taught at [[Place:Kyoto|Kyoto]] college in Japan.<ref>https://www.bio.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/2022-04/All%20LDY%20New%20Portraits%20-%20Website%20%2810%29.jpg {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221018222754/https://www.bio.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/2022-04/All%20LDY%20New%20Portraits%20-%20Website%20(10).jpg |date=October 18, 2022 }} as part of https://www.bio.upenn.edu/pennbio-gallery {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221018222754/https://www.bio.upenn.edu/pennbio-gallery |date=October 18, 2022 }} retrieved October 18, 2022</ref>

Mary Alice Bennett and Anna H. Johnson were in 1880 the first women to enroll in a Penn degree-granting program and Bennett was the first woman to receive a degree from Penn, which was a PhD.<ref name=NLM>{{cite web|title=Dr. (Mary) Alice Bennett|url=https://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_32.html|work=Changing The Face Of Medicine|publisher=National Library of Medicine|access-date=February 8, 2014|archive-date=May 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512222958/https://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_32.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=DWS>{{cite book|last1=Ogilvie|first1=Marilyn|last2=Harvey|first2=Joy|title=The Biographical Dictionary Of Women In Science |year=2000 |publisher=Routledge |location=New York, New York|isbn=0-415-92038-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict00ogil_0/page/115 115]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict00ogil_0}}</ref><ref name="Arch-Timeline-1740">{{cite news |title=Timeline of Diversity at Penn: 1740–1915 |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/diversity-timeline/1740-1915 |website=University Archives and Records Center |publisher=Penn |access-date=February 28, 2021 |archive-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117095259/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/diversity-timeline/1740-1915 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Julian Abele in 1902 was the first African American to graduate from University of Pennsylvania School of Design (then named Department of Architecture) and was elected as the president of Penn's Architectural Society.<ref name="PENN">{{cite web |url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1800s/abele_julian_fra_wm.html |title=Penn Biographies: Julian Francis Abele (1881–1950) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207171303/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1800s/abele_julian_fra_wm.html |archive-date=December 7, 2013 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Archives}}</ref> Abele won a 1901 student competition where he designed a Beaux Arts pedestrian gateway that was built and still stands on the campus of [[Organization:Haverford College|Haverford College]],<ref>[https://www.jbhe.com/2016/01/gate-on-haverford-college-campus-linked-to-black-architectural-pioneer-julian-abele/ "Gate on Haverford College Campus Linked to Black Architectural Pioneer Julian Abele,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404200850/https://www.jbhe.com/2016/01/gate-on-haverford-college-campus-linked-to-black-architectural-pioneer-julian-abele/ |date=April 4, 2023 }} ''Journal of Blacks in Higher Education'', January 26, 2016.</ref> The Edward B. Conklin Memorial Gate at the Railroad Avenue entrance to Haverford College.<ref>[https://www.google.com/maps/@40.01253,-75.3037733,3a,75y,200.23h,72.22t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxknLuSA4e9WPL76pvmyPcA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Conklin Memorial Gate] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404231620/https://www.google.com/maps/@40.01253,-75.3037733,3a,75y,200.23h,72.22t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxknLuSA4e9WPL76pvmyPcA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 |date=April 4, 2023 }}, from Google Earth.</ref> Abele contributed to the design of more than 400 buildings, including the Widener Memorial Library at [[Organization:Harvard University|Harvard University]] (1912–1915), Philadelphia's Central Library (1917–1927),<ref>{{cite web|title=Digital Collections: History|url=https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/index.cfm|access-date=July 24, 2021|website=Free Library of Philadelphia|language=en-US|archive-date=July 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724203925/https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/index.cfm|url-status=live}}</ref> and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1914–1928).<ref name="blackpast.org">{{cite web|last=Fikes|first=Robert|date=January 29, 2007|title=Julian F. Abele (1881–1950) •|url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/abele-julian-f-1881-1950/|access-date=July 24, 2021|language=en-US|archive-date=June 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614151448/https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/abele-julian-f-1881-1950/|url-status=live}}</ref> and was the primary designer of the west campus of [[Organization:Duke University|Duke University]] (1924–1954).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://library.duke.edu/uarchives/history/histnotes/julian_abele.html |title=Julian Abele, Architect |publisher=Library.duke.edu |date=May 26, 2010 |access-date=January 5, 2012 |archive-date=January 13, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113185145/http://library.duke.edu/uarchives/history/histnotes/julian_abele.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Duke honored Abele by prominently displaying his portrait, the first portrait of an African American to be displayed on the campus.<ref name=ncarchitects>{{cite web |url=http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000277 |title=North Carolina Architects & Builders: Abele, Julian Francis (1881–1950) |publisher=North Carolina State University Libraries |author=William E. King |year=2009 |access-date=December 19, 2023 |archive-date=April 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404200855/https://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000277 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, paternal niece of Nathan Francis Mossell and maternal niece of Lewis Baxter Moore, was the first African American to receive a PhD in economics in the United States (and third black woman to earn one in the United States in any subject)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/sadie-tanner-mossell-alexander-first-many-firsts |title=Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander: The first of many firsts |work=The Pennsylvania Gazette |date=May 5, 2021 |access-date=May 6, 2021 |via=Penn Today |archive-date=May 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506040430/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/sadie-tanner-mossell-alexander-first-many-firsts |url-status=live }}</ref> and first from Penn in 1921, the first African-American woman to receive a law degree from Penn Law in 1927, and the first African-American woman to practice law in Pennsylvania.<ref name="Boston1997" />

Alan L. Hart, who earned a master's degree at Penn Med in radiology (class of 1928),<ref name="hartmd">{{cite web |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trailblazing-transgender-doctor-saved-countless-lives/ |title=Trailblazing Transgender Doctor Saved Countless Lives |work=Scientific American |last=DeLuca |first=Leo |date=June 10, 2021 |access-date=June 13, 2021 |archive-date=June 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613082820/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trailblazing-transgender-doctor-saved-countless-lives/ |url-status=live }}</ref>{{refn|group=note|name="Hart's class"|Note other sources states Class of 1930<ref name=OCHC/>}} was born in 1890 and publicly identified as a female, Alberta Lucille Hart, through much of 1917, the year Hart transitioned to being a man by having a [[Biology:Hysterectomy|hysterectomy]], one of the first in the United States to be performed to help a person become a trans man, and lived the rest of his life as a man.<ref name=OCHC>{{cite web |url= http://www.ochcom.org/hart/ |title= Alberta Lucille Hart / Dr. Alan L. Hart: An Oregon "Pioneer" |last=Booth |first=Brian |year=2000 |publisher=Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission |access-date= October 31, 2008| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081023061151/http://www.ochcom.org/hart/| archive-date= October 23, 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> Hart, Penn's most prominent transgender alumnus in the first half of the twentieth century, was a pioneer in using x-ray photography to detect [[Medicine:Tuberculosis|tuberculosis]], allowing the identification of asymptomatic TB carriers (seventy-five percent of the total infected), permitting treatment of patients before they had complications, and allowing for separation of TB patients from others to stop the spread of one of the more infectious deadly diseases known to humanity.<ref name="hartmd"/>

The first openly LGBTQ+ organization funded by Penn was formed in 1972 by Kiyoshi Kuromiya, a Benjamin Franklin Scholar and Penn alumnus from the college's class of 1966, when he created the Gay Coffee Hour, which met every week on campus and was also open to non-students and served as an alternative space to gay bars for gay people of all ages.<ref name="firstmonday.org">{{cite journal |last1=Lubin |first1=Joan |last2=Vaccaro |first2=Jeanne |date=September 14, 2020 |title=AIDS infrastructures, queer networks: Architecting the critical path |journal=First Monday |doi=10.5210/fm.v25i10.10403 |s2cid=225026921 |issn=1396-0466 |url=https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/10403 |access-date=November 8, 2021 |doi-access=free |archive-date=September 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926013158/https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/10403 |url-status=live }}</ref> Penn funded the Gay Coffee House program (via a grant from the student government), which was held in Houston Hall at six o'clock in the evening every Wednesday and attracted, on average, roughly sixty people of all ages with roughly "one-quarter to one-third women and two-thirds to three-quarters men".<ref name="stein1943">{{cite web |url=https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/philadelphia-lgbt-interviews/int/kiyoshi-kuromiya |title=Kiyoshi Kuromiya (1943–2000), Interviewed June 17, 1997 |website=outhistory.org |first=Marc |last=Stein |date=2009 |access-date=November 8, 2021 |archive-date=November 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104185147/https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/philadelphia-lgbt-interviews/int/kiyoshi-kuromiya |url-status=live }}</ref>  In March 2023, Penn announced a first in the United States LGBTQ+ scholar in residence after a $2-million gift.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/alok-named-first-scholar-residence-penns-lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-center?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=863f167d4a-3%2F7%2F23%3A+Money+and+happiness&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-bbb3cd62d2-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D | title=ALOK named first Scholar in Residence at Penn's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center | date=March 6, 2023 | access-date=March 7, 2023 | archive-date=March 7, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307151941/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/alok-named-first-scholar-residence-penns-lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-center?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=863f167d4a-3/7/23:+Money+and+happiness&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-bbb3cd62d2-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D | url-status=live }}</ref>

As detailed in part above, by the first decades of the twentieth century, Penn made strides and took an active interest in attracting diverse students from around the globe. Two examples of such action occurred in 1910. Penn's first director of publicity, created a recruiting brochure, translated into Spanish, with approximately 10,000 copies circulated throughout Latin America. That same year, the Penn-affiliated organization, the Cosmopolitan Club, started an annual tradition of hosting an opening "smoker", which attracted students from 40 nations who were formally welcomed to the university by then-vice provost Edgar Fahs Smith (who the following year would start a ten-year tenure as provost)<ref name="PennHistory">{{cite web|title=Penn Chemistry History|url=https://www.chem.upenn.edu/content/penn-chemistry-history|website=University of Pennsylvania|access-date=March 11, 2015|archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402102151/https://www.chem.upenn.edu/content/penn-chemistry-history|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="NIE">{{Cite NIE |wstitle= Smith, Edgar Fahs |volume= XVIII | page= |short=1}}</ref><ref name="Klickstein">{{cite journal|last=Klickstein|first=Herbert S.|title=Edgar Fahs Smith-His Contributions to the History of Chemistry|journal=Chymia|date=1959|volume=5|pages=11–30|doi=10.2307/27757173|jstor=27757173|url=http://hsns.ucpress.edu/content/ucpchymia/5/11.full.pdf|access-date=February 28, 2021|archive-date=December 19, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231219163607/https://online.ucpress.edu/hsns|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="CHM">{{cite journal|last=Bohning|first=James J.|title=Women in chemistry at Penn 1894-1908, Edgar Fahs Smith as Mentor|journal=Chemical Heritage Magazine|date=Spring 2001|volume=19|issue=1|pages=10–11, 38–43}}</ref><ref name="Collier">{{Cite Collier's|wstitle=Smith, Edgar Fahs|volume=VIII |short= 1}}</ref> who spoke about how Penn wanted to "bring together students of different countries and break down misunderstandings existing between them".<ref name="Arch-Timeline-1740" />

The success of such efforts were reported in 1921 when the official Penn publicity department reported that

{{cquote|We have an enrollment at the University of 12,000 students, who have registered from every State in the Union, and 253 students from at least fifty foreign countries and foreign territories, including India, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and practically all the British possessions except Ireland; every Latin American country, and most of the Oriental and European nations.
| author = George E. Nitzsche
| source = 1921<ref name="A Timeline of Diversity at the Univ"/>
}}

Of those accepted for admission in 2018, 48 percent were [[Biography:Asian people|Asian]], Hispanic, African-American or Native American.<ref name="Penn: Penn Facts"/> Fourteen percent of entering undergraduates in 2018 were international students.<ref name="Penn: Penn Facts"/> The composition of international first-year students in 2018 was: 46% from Asia; 15% from Africa and the Middle East; 16% from Europe; 14% from Canada and Mexico; 8% from the Caribbean, Central America and South America; 5% from Australia and the Pacific Islands.<ref name="Penn: Penn Facts" /> The acceptance rate for international students admission in 2018 was 493 out of 8,316 (6.7%).<ref name="Penn: Penn Facts"/> In 2018, 55% of all enrolled students were women.<ref name="Penn: Penn Facts"/>

In the last few decades, Jewish enrollment has been declining. {{circa|1999}} about 28% of the students were Jewish.<ref>{{cite news|author=Pam, Caroline C. |url=http://observer.com/1999/05/enrollment-of-jews-at-princeton-drops-by-40-percent-in-15-years/ |title=Enrollment of Jews at Princeton Drops by 40 Percent in 15 Years|newspaper=The New York Observer|date=May 31, 1999 |access-date=August 31, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831071855/http://observer.com/1999/05/enrollment-of-jews-at-princeton-drops-by-40-percent-in-15-years/ |archive-date=August 31, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In early 2020, 1,750 Penn undergraduate students were Jewish,<ref name="PennHillel">{{cite web |title=About {{!}} Penn Hillel |url=https://www.pennhillel.org/about |website=Penn Hillel |access-date=September 6, 2020 |archive-date=September 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922134846/https://www.pennhillel.org/about |url-status=live }}</ref> which would be approximately 17%<ref name="hillel.org">{{cite web|title=Record|url=https://www.hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/university-of-pennsylvania|access-date=July 24, 2021|website=Default|archive-date=July 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723192909/https://hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/university-of-pennsylvania|url-status=live}}</ref> of the some 10,000 undergrads for 2019–20.

===Penn Face and behavioral health===
The university's social pressure surrounding academic perfection, extreme competitiveness, and nonguaranteed readmission have created what is known as "Penn Face": students put on a façade of confidence and happiness while enduring mental turmoil.<ref>{{cite news
 |last         = Scelfo
 |first        = Julie
 |date         = July 27, 2015
|title        = Suicide on Campus and the Pressure of Perfection
 |url          = https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/education/edlife/stress-social-media-and-suicide-on-campus.html
 |url-access   = limited
 |work         = The New York Times
 |access-date  = June 17, 2019
|quote        = An apothegm long used by students to describe the practice of acting happy and self-assured even when sad or stressed, Penn Face is so widely employed that it has showed up in skits performed during freshman orientation...[e]lite colleges often make it difficult for students to take time off, and readmission is not always guaranteed, something frequently cited as a deterrent to getting help.
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20190614120239/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/education/edlife/stress-social-media-and-suicide-on-campus.html
 |archive-date = June 14, 2019
|url-status   = live
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
 |last         = Capriglione
 |first        = Danielle
 |date         = April 12, 2019
|title        = Mental health researchers highlight risk factors for student suicide at Penn panel
 |url          = https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/04/suicide-symposium-mental-health-wellness-penn-face
 |work         = The Daily Pennsylvanian
 |access-date  = June 17, 2019
|quote        = 'Penn Face,' the tendency of Penn students to act as though their lives are perfect despite the challenges and stresses they are facing.
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20190413003324/https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/04/suicide-symposium-mental-health-wellness-penn-face
 |archive-date = April 13, 2019
|url-status   = live
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
 |last         = Dent
 |first        = Mark
 |date         = December 11, 2015
|title        = 'Penn Face' and the 'social' Ivy's suicide problem, and how students are fighting back
 |url          = https://billypenn.com/2015/12/11/penn-face-and-the-social-ivys-suicide-problem-and-how-students-are-fighting-back/
 |work         = BillyPenn
 |access-date  = June 17, 2019
|quote        = Penn Face...[i]t means putting on the facade that you're perfect and your life is perfect, no matter how pressured you are to keep up with school and social life.
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20190617211632/https://billypenn.com/2015/12/11/penn-face-and-the-social-ivys-suicide-problem-and-how-students-are-fighting-back/
 |archive-date = June 17, 2019
|url-status   = live
}}</ref><ref name="duck">{{cite news
 |last         = Hu
 |first        = Lucy
 |date         = September 26, 2017
|title        = Penn Face is a part of who we are
 |url          = https://www.thedp.com/article/2017/09/lucy-hu-penn-face-is-a-part-of-who-we-are
 |work         = The Daily Pennsylvanian
 |access-date  = June 17, 2019
|quote        = [I]t becomes a breeding ground for competitiveness. And with competition comes the need to uphold reputation. Low acceptance rates come with very high stakes, and a slip of the mask of strength calls into question the legitimacy of your place at Penn... Stanford University calls it the Duck Syndrome... Interestingly, Penn Face perfectly mirrors social media trends.
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20190617211639/https://www.thedp.com/article/2017/09/lucy-hu-penn-face-is-a-part-of-who-we-are
 |archive-date = June 17, 2019
|url-status   = live
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
 |last         = Maheshwari
 |first        = Karisma
 |date         = March 16, 2018
|title        = Exchange Students Share Their Experiences with Penn Face
 |url          = https://www.34st.com/article/2018/03/exchange-student-ego-penn-face-international-culture
 |work         = 34th Street
 |access-date  = June 17, 2019
|quote        = Penn Face...[i]t's the name given to Penn's culture of perfection, which pressures students to constantly 'do more' with their time and appear put together academically and socially while hiding their insecurities.
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20190617211631/https://www.34st.com/article/2018/03/exchange-student-ego-penn-face-international-culture
 |archive-date = June 17, 2019
|url-status   = live
}}</ref> Stanford University calls this phenomenon "Duck Syndrome."<ref name="duck"/><ref>{{cite news
 |last         = Zhao
 |first        = Dora
 |date         = September 18, 2018
|title        = Benefits of doing nothing
 |url          = http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2018/09/benefits-of-doing-nothing
 |work         = The Daily Princetonian
 |access-date  = June 17, 2019
|quote        = Peer institutions like Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania have problems with the duck syndrome or Penn Face, respectively — similar phenomena that encourage students to appear to be unstressed while actually grappling with a lot of work. The duck appears calm from the surface, but underwater, it is struggling to stay afloat. It makes small mistakes feel like big failures and discourages students from seeking out mental health resources when needed.
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20190617211639/http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2018/09/benefits-of-doing-nothing
 |archive-date = June 17, 2019
|url-status   = live
}}</ref> In recent years, mental health has become an issue on campus with ten student suicides between the years of 2013 to 2016.<ref name="lala">{{cite news
|last=Lala
|first=Elisa
|title=Penn student's death ruled suicide; tenth in three years at university
|url=http://www.phillyvoice.com/tenth-student-suicide-3-years-penn/
|access-date=August 4, 2016
|work=PhillyVoice
|publisher=WWB Holdings, LLC.
|date=January 12, 2016
|ref=lala
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160725025736/http://www.phillyvoice.com/tenth-student-suicide-3-years-penn/
|archive-date=July 25, 2016
|url-status=live
}}</ref> The school responded by launching a task force.<ref>{{cite news
 |author           = <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->
 |date             = February 27, 2015
|title            = Report of the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare
 |url              = https://almanac.upenn.edu/archive/volumes/v61/n23/pdf/task-force-psychological-health.pdf
 |work             = Almanac Supplement
 |volume           = 61
 |edition          = 23
 |publisher        = University of Pennsylvania
 |publication-date = February 17, 2015
|agency           = Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare
 |access-date      = June 17, 2019
|archive-url      = https://web.archive.org/web/20180325162648/https://almanac.upenn.edu/archive/volumes/v61/n23/pdf/task-force-psychological-health.pdf
 |archive-date     = March 25, 2018
|url-status       = live
}}</ref><ref name="ozio">{{cite news
|last=Ozio
|first=Ron
|title=Penn Forms New Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare
|url=https://news.upenn.edu/news/penn-forms-new-task-force-student-psychological-health-and-welfare
|access-date=August 4, 2016
|work=Penn News
|publisher=University of Pennsylvania
|date=February 19, 2014
|ref=ozio
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814202000/https://news.upenn.edu/news/penn-forms-new-task-force-student-psychological-health-and-welfare
|archive-date=August 14, 2016
|url-status=live
}}</ref> The most widely covered case of Penn Face has been Madison Holleran.<ref>{{cite book
|last=Fagan
|first=Kate
|date=August 1, 2017
|title=What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
|publisher=Little, Brown and Company
|isbn=978-0316356541}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
 |last         = Zamore
 |first        = Zachary
 |date         = February 5, 2018
|title        = Harvard's Varsity Club distributes biography on Penn student Madison Holleran to all athletes
 |url          = https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/02/harvard-mental-health-athletes-madison-holleran-upenn-penn-philadelphia
 |work         = The Daily Pennsylvanian
 |access-date  = June 17, 2019
|archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20190617211639/https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/02/harvard-mental-health-athletes-madison-holleran-upenn-penn-philadelphia
 |archive-date = June 17, 2019
|url-status   = live
}}</ref> In 2018, initiatives were enacted to ameliorate mental health problems, such as requiring sophomores to live on campus and the daily closing of Huntsman Hall at 2:00&nbsp;a.m.<ref>{{cite news
|url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/09/upenn-2021-sophomore-housing-required-greek
|title=Penn will require all sophomores to live in college housing starting in 2021
|last1=Fortinsky
|first1=Sarah
|last2=Tan
|first2=Rebecca
|date=September 26, 2018
|work=The Daily Pennsylvanian
|language=en-us
|access-date=January 22, 2019
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122195512/https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/09/upenn-2021-sophomore-housing-required-greek
|archive-date=January 22, 2019
|url-status=live
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
|url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/08/wharton-huntsman-closing-early-new-hours-philadelphia-upenn-penn-wellness-mental-health
|title=Huntsman Hall will now close at 2 a.m. as part of an effort to improve wellness on campus
|last=Heinzerling
|first=Kelly
|date=August 23, 2018
|work=The Daily Pennsylvanian
|language=en-us
|access-date=January 22, 2019
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122144936/https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/08/wharton-huntsman-closing-early-new-hours-philadelphia-upenn-penn-wellness-mental-health
|archive-date=January 22, 2019
|url-status=live
}}</ref> The university's suicide rate was the catalyst for a 2018 state bill, introduced by Governor Tom Wolf, to raise Pennsylvania's standards for university suicide prevention.<ref>{{cite news
 |last1        = Cohen
 |first1       = Max
 |last2        = Hodges
 |first2       = Bebe
 |date         = October 24, 2018
|title        = In response to suicides at Penn, a new mental health bill may soon become law
 |url          = https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/10/mental-health-higher-education-harrisburg-bill-suicide-penn-upenn-philadelphia
 |work         = The Daily Pennsylvanian
 |access-date  = June 17, 2019
|quote        = In light of the recent suicides at Penn, a new Pennsylvania bill aiming to improve suicide prevention services and mental health resources at Pennsylvania universities is close to being signed into law by Gov. Tom Wolf (D-Pa.)...In a press release, Schlossberg also said the new bill was inspired by a study conducted in response to 'multiple suicides at the University of Pennsylvania.'
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20190617211729/https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/10/mental-health-higher-education-harrisburg-bill-suicide-penn-upenn-philadelphia
 |archive-date = June 17, 2019
|url-status   = live
}}</ref> The university's efforts to address mental health on campus came into the national spotlight again in September 2019 when the director of the university's counseling services died by suicide six months after starting the position.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/09/11/university-pennsylvania-director-counseling-dies-suicide |title=Head of Counseling at Penn Dies in Suicide |first=Elin |last=Johnson |date=September 11, 2019 |work=Inside Higher Ed |access-date=December 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190914094019/https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/09/11/university-pennsylvania-director-counseling-dies-suicide |archive-date=September 14, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Selected student organizations===
;Oldest organization
[[File:The Philomathean Library.jpg|thumb|The Philomathean Society Presidential Library named after United States President and Penn Med alumnus William Henry Harrison]]
The Philomathean Society, founded in 1813, is the United States' oldest continuously existing collegiate literary society and continues to host lectures and intellectual events open to the public.<ref name="History of Philomathean society">{{cite book|title=A History of the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania|author=Philomathean Society|year=1913|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|location=Philadelphia|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyphilomat00socigoog/page/n34 22]|url=https://archive.org/details/historyphilomat00socigoog|access-date=November 5, 2015}}</ref>

;''The Daily Pennsylvanian''
''The Daily Pennsylvanian'' is an independent, student-run newspaper, which has been published daily since it was founded in 1885.<ref name="About The Daily Pennsylvanian">{{cite news|title=About Us|url=http://thedp.com/about-us|newspaper=The Daily Pennsylvanian|access-date=August 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807005912/http://thedp.com/about-us|archive-date=August 7, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> The newspaper went unpublished from May 1943 to November 1945 due to [[Social:World War II|World War II]].<ref name="About The Daily Pennsylvanian"/> In 1984, the university lost all editorial and financial control of ''The Daily Pennsylvanian'' (also known as ''The DP'') when the newspaper became its own corporation.<ref name="About The Daily Pennsylvanian" /> ''The Daily Pennsylvanian'' has won the Pacemaker Award administered by the Associated Collegiate Press multiple times, most recently in 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.studentpress.org/acp/winners/npm07.html|work=ACP|publisher=National Scholastic Press Association/Associated Collegiate Press|title=2007 ACP Newspaper Pacemaker Winners|access-date=August 19, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927161701/http://www.studentpress.org/acp/winners/npm07.html|archive-date=September 27, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Cohen |first1=Max |title=The Daily Pennsylvanian wins 'Pulitzer' of college journalism for third year in a row |url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/11/pacemaker-award-daily-pennsylvanian-wins-2019 |work=The Daily Pennsylvania |access-date=December 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221162501/https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/11/pacemaker-award-daily-pennsylvanian-wins-2019 |archive-date=December 21, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> The ''DP'' also publishes a weekly arts and culture magazine called ''34th Street Magazine''.

''The Daily Pennsylvanian'' also operates three principal websites, thedp.com, 34st.com, and underthebutton.com, and publishes opinion, news, and sports blogs. It has received various collegiate journalism awards.

;Academic organizations
The Penn Debate Society (PDS), founded in 1984 as the Penn Parliamentary Debate Society, is Penn's debate team, which competes regularly on the American Parliamentary Debate Association and the international British Parliamentary circuit.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.penndebatesociety.com/history |title=History — Penn Debate Society |publisher=Penndebatesociety.com |date= |access-date=July 4, 2022}}</ref>

The ''Penn History Review'' is a journal, published twice a year, through the Department of History, for undergraduate historical research, by and for undergraduates, and founded in 1991.<ref>{{cite web |title=Penn History Review |url=https://repository.upenn.edu/phr/all_issues.html |website=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=April 30, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Penn History Review |url=https://live-sas-www-history.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/undergraduate/penn-history-review |website=Department of History |publisher=Penn Arts & Sciences |access-date=April 30, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Penn History Review |url=https://pennclubs.com/club/penn-history-review |website=pennclubs.com |access-date=April 30, 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

;LGBTQ+ organizations
Penn has been ranked as the number one LGBTQ+ friendly school in the country.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.greatvaluecolleges.net/50-great-lgbtq-friendly-colleges/ |title=50 Great LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges |work=Great Value Colleges |access-date=October 22, 2021 }}</ref> Penn's LGBTQ+ center is second oldest in the nation<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lgbtc.vpul.upenn.edu/history/|title=History – LGBT Center at the University of Pennsylvania|access-date=October 23, 2021|archive-date=October 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023010201/https://lgbtc.vpul.upenn.edu/history/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and oldest in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as it has been serving the LGBTQ+ community since 1979 by providing support and guidance through 25 groups (including Penn J-Bagel a Jewish LGBTQ+ group, the Lambda Alliance a general LGBTQ social organization, and oSTEM a group for LGBTQ people in STEM fields).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.campuspride.org/campusspotlightuniversityofpennsylvania/ |title=20th Anniversary Spotlight:: University of Pennsylvania |website=campuspride.org |date=August 17, 2021 |access-date=October 22, 2021 }}</ref> Penn offers courses in Sexuality and Gender Studies which allows students to discover and learn queer theory, history of sexual norms, and other gender orientation related courses.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.onlineschoolscenter.com/friendliest-colleges-lgbtq-community/|title = Friendliest Colleges for the LGBTQ Community|date = April 23, 2019}}</ref> The first Penn funded LGBTQ+ organization was formed in 1972 by "Steve" Kiyoshi Kuromiya (Penn college class of 1966) when he created the Gay Coffee Hour, which met every week on campus and served as an alternative space to gay bars for gay people of all ages.<ref name="firstmonday.org"/> Penn funded the Gay Coffee House via a grant from the student government and the weekly event was held in Houston Hall Wednesday evenings.<ref name="stein1943"/>

==== Penn Electric Racing ====
[[File:Penn Electric Racing REV8 Unveiling.jpg|thumb|Penn Electric Racing unveiled REV8 on March 31, 2023, in front of the Benjamin Franklin statue in front of College Hall.]]
Penn Electric Racing is the university's Formula SAE (FSAE) team, competing in the international [[Engineering:Electric vehicle|electric vehicle]] (EV) competition. Colloquially known as "PER", the team designs, manufactures, and races custom electric racecars against other collegiate teams. In 2015, PER built and raced their first racecar, REV1, at the Lincoln Nebraska FSAE competition, winning first place.<ref name="SAE-2015">{{Cite web |date=June 24, 2015 |title=Electric 2015 Overall Results |url=https://www.sae.org/binaries/content/assets/cm/content/attend/2018/student-events/fsae/results/fsae_ev_2015_result.pdf |page=1 |access-date=July 28, 2023 |website=SAE}}</ref> The team repeated their success with their next two racecars: REV2 won second place in 2016,<ref name="SAE-2016">{{Cite web |date=June 30, 2016 |title=Electric 2016 Overall Results |url=https://www.sae.org/binaries/content/assets/cm/content/attend/2018/student-events/fsae/results/fsae_ev_2016_result.pdf |page=1 |access-date=July 28, 2023 |website=SAE}}</ref> and REV3 won first place in 2017.<ref name="SAE-2017">{{Cite web |date=June 28, 2017 |title=Electric 2017 Overall Results |url=https://www.sae.org/binaries/content/assets/cm/content/attend/2018/student-events/fsae/results/fsae_ev_2017_result.pdf |page=1 |access-date=July 28, 2023 |website=SAE}}</ref>

===Performing arts organizations===
Penn is home to numerous organizations that promote the arts, from dance to spoken word, jazz to stand-up comedy, theatre, a cappella and more. The Performing Arts Council (PAC) oversees 45 student organizations in these areas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/pac/|title=Performing Arts Council at the University of Pennsylvania|access-date=November 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151101095230/http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/pac/|archive-date=November 1, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> The PAC has four subcommittees: A Cappella Council; Dance Arts Council; Singer, Musicians, and Comedians (SMAC); and Theatre Arts Council (TAC-e).

====Penn Glee Club====
[[File:1915-1916 glee club.JPG|thumb|Penn Glee Club's 1915–1916 academic year membership photo]]
The University of Pennsylvania Glee Club, founded in 1862, is tied for fourth oldest continually running glee clubs in the United States<ref name="foundation">{{cite web|url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/genlhistory/timeline.html|title=A Timeline of The History of The University of Pennsylvania|access-date=July 5, 2008|publisher=The University of Pennsylvania Archives|archive-date=August 11, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070811043944/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/genlhistory/timeline.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the oldest performing arts group at the University of Pennsylvania. Each year, the Penn Glee Club writes and produces a fully staged, Broadway-style production with an eclectic mix of Penn standards, Broadway classics, classical favorites, and pop hits, highlighting choral singing from all genders (as of April 9, 2021, it merged<ref>{{cite web|title=Penn Glee Club becomes fully gender inclusive after 159 years of all-male singers|url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-glee-club-becomes-fully-gender-inclusive-after-159-years-male-singers|access-date=July 24, 2021|website=Penn Today|date=April 9, 2021 }}</ref> with Penn Sirens, a previously all female chorale group), clever plots and dialogue, dancing, humor, colorful sets and costumes, and a pit band.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/glee-club |title=University of Pennsylvania Glee Club: Introduction |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=March 25, 2021 }}</ref> The Glee Club draws its singing members from the undergraduate and graduate students (and men and women from the Penn community are also called upon to fill roles in the pit band and technical staff when the club is involved with theatrical productions). The Penn Glee Club has traveled to nearly all 50 states in the United States and over 40 nations and territories on five continents.<ref name="tours">{{cite web
|url=http://www.penngleeclub.com/EVENTS_past.html
|title=International Tours of The Penn Glee Club
|access-date=July 5, 2008
|publisher=Penn Glee Club
}}</ref> Since the 1950s, Penn Glee Club has appeared on national television with such celebrities as Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Stewart, Ed McMahon, Carol Lawrence, and Princess Grace Kelly of [[Place:Monaco|Monaco]] and has been showcased on television specials such as the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and at professional sporting events for The Philadelphia Phillies where club sung the National Anthem at the 1993 National League Championship Series. Since its first performance at the White House for President Calvin Coolidge in 1926, the club has sung for numerous heads of state and world leaders. One of the highlights of 1989 was the club's performance for Polish President [[Biography:Lech Wałęsa|Lech Wałęsa]]. Bruce Montgomery, its best-known and longest-serving director, led the club from 1956 until 2000.<ref name="Montgomery Obituary">{{cite journal|title=Mr. Montgomery, Long-time Glee Club Director and Renaissance Man|journal=University of Pennsylvania Almanac|date=July 15, 2008|volume=55|issue=1|url=http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v55/n01/obit.html|access-date=August 20, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629100534/http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v55/n01/obit.html|archive-date=June 29, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

====Penn Band====
[[File:University of Pennsylvania Band spell "Penn".jpg|thumb|The University of Pennsylvania Band at the 2019 homecoming game]]
The University of Pennsylvania Band has been a part of student life since 1897.<ref name="Who are we?!">{{cite web|title=Who are we?!|url=http://www.dolphin.upenn.edu/pennband/about.html|work=Penn Band|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Band|access-date=August 20, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005010616/http://www.dolphin.upenn.edu/pennband/about.html|archive-date=October 5, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Penn Band presently mainly performs at football and basketball games as well as university functions (e.g. [[Social:Graduation|commencement]] and [[Social:Convocation|convocation]]) throughout the year but in past it was known not only as the first college band to perform at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade but performed with notable musicians, including John Philip Sousa, members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the U.S. Marine Band ("The President's Own"), Doc Severinsen of ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson''. Beginning in the late 1920s and 1930s Penn Band recorded with the Victor Talking Machine Company (RCA-Victor Company) and was nationally broadcast on WABC (AM). In 1977, Penn Band performed with Chuck Barris of The Gong Show and in 1980 opened for Penn alumnus Maury Povich in his eponymously named show.

Penn Band has performed for Princess Grace Kelly of [[Place:Monaco|Monaco]] (sister and aunt to number of alumni), alumnus and District Attorney and Mayor of Philadelphia, and Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell, Vice President [[Biography:Al Gore|Al Gore]], Presidents [[Biography:Theodore Roosevelt|Theodore Roosevelt]], [[Biography:Lyndon B. Johnson|Lyndon B. Johnson]] and Ronald Reagan, and Polish dissident and President [[Biography:Lech Wałęsa|Lech Wałęsa]]. By the 1970s, however, Penn Band had begun moving away from the traditional corps style and is now a scramble band.  The first one hundred years of the organization's history was described in a book from Arcadia Publishing: ''Images of America:The University of Pennsylvania Band'' (2006).<ref name="Who are we?!"/>

====Penn's a cappella community====
[[File:PM Obama.jpg|thumb|Penn Masala performs in the Blue Room of the White House in October 2009 on invitation from President Barack Obama.]]
The A Cappella Council (ACK) is composed of 14 a cappella groups. Penn's a cappella groups entertain audiences with repertoires including pop, rock, R&B, jazz, Hindi, and Chinese songs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vpul.upenn.edu/pac/ack.php|title=Performing Arts Council at the University of Pennsylvania|access-date=July 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728221803/https://www.vpul.upenn.edu/pac/ack.php|archive-date=July 28, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
ACK is also home to Off The Beat, which has received the most contemporary a cappella recording awards of any collegiate group in the United States and the most features on the ''Best of College A Cappella'' albums.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pennoffthebeat.com|title=Off The Beat|access-date=February 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180906195614/https://pennoffthebeat.com/|archive-date=September 6, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Penn Masala, formed in 1996, is world's oldest<ref>{{cite book |title=Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory |last=Rapkin |first=Mickey |year=2009 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-1-59240-463-6 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/pitchperfectques0000rapk_q3n0}}</ref><ref>[http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/node/3585 Penn Masala performs at the White House] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420093139/http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/node/3585 |date=April 20, 2016 }} Penn Current – October 15, 2009</ref> and premier<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100113171650/http://www.hindu.com/2010/01/10/stories/2010011057570200.htm Penn Masala to perform in city] ''The Hindu'' – January 10, 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.indiawest.com/channel/278-65-penn-masala----the-world-s-premier-south-asian-a-cappella-group.html Penn Masala – The World's Premier South Asian A Cappella Group] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113070515/http://www.indiawest.com/channel/278-65-penn-masala----the-world-s-premier-south-asian-a-cappella-group.html |date=January 13, 2012}} India West</ref> [[Place:South Asia|South Asia]]n a cappella group based in an American university, which has performed for [[Biography:Barack Obama|Barack Obama]], Joe Biden, [[Biography:Henry Kissinger|Henry Kissinger]], Ban Ki Moon, Farooq Abdullah, Imran Khan, Rajkumar Hirani, A.R. Rahman, Narendra Modi<ref>{{cite news | url=https://m.timesofindia.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/penn-masala-sings-srks-chaiyya-chaiyya-at-white-house-for-pm-modis-welcome/articleshow/101198111.cms | title=Penn Masala sings SRK's 'Chaiyya Chaiyya' at White House for PM Modi's welcome | newspaper=The Times of India | date=June 22, 2023 }}</ref> and Sunidhi Chauhan, had their a cappella version of Nazia Hassan's [[Social:Urdu|Urdu]] classic "Aap Jaisa Koi", (originally from the movie ''Qurbani'') sung in the movie American Desi.<ref>{{cite news | last = Matheson | first = Kathy | title = UPenn group spices up college a cappella scene with Hindi songs | agency = Associated Press | date = February 24, 2007 | url =http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/25/america/NA-FEA-A-E-MUS-US-Hindi-A-Cappella.php | access-date =February 17, 2008}}</ref>

Penn alumni Elizabeth Banks (class of 1996) and Max Handelman (Banks' husband, class of 1995) invited Masala to appear in ''Pitch Perfect 2'', as Banks reported that Penn's a capella community inspired the film series starring and/or produced by Banks and Handleman.<ref>{{cite web|date=April 15, 2015|title=Pitch Perfect and Penn|url=https://thepenngazette.com/pitch-perfect-and-penn/|access-date=July 24, 2021|website=The Pennsylvania Gazette|language=en-US}}</ref>

====Comedy organizations====
[[File:Mask&Wig.jpg|thumb|upright|The Mask and Wig clubhouse]]
Mask and Wig, a club founded in 1889, was (until fall of 2021<ref>{{cite web | url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/making-mask-and-wig-history-gender-inclusive | title=Making Mask and Wig history | date=October 12, 2022 }}</ref>) the oldest all-male musical comedy troupe in the country. In 2021 the club voted to become gender-inclusive, with auditions open to all undergraduates: male, female, and non-binary.

Bloomers comedy group, founded in 1978, is the "... nation's first collegiate all-women musical and sketch comedy troupe...".<ref>{{cite news |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |title=Penn's pioneering all-female musical comedy troupe launched an SNL star. What's next? |first=Bethany |last=Ao |date=October 19, 2018}}</ref>
Bloomers was founded at Penn by Joan Harrison.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bloomerscomedy.org/history-1 | title=History }}</ref> In the mid teens, Bloomers  revised its constitution to be open to "... anyone who does not identify as a [[Social:Cisgender|cisgender]] man...".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/entertainment/bloomers-penn-womens-comedy-troupe-20181019.html | title=Penn's pioneering all-female musical comedy troupe launched an SNL star. What's next? | date=October 19, 2018 }}</ref> 
and now accepts all persons from under-represented gender identities who perform comedy.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomerscomedy.org/history-1 |title=A Bloomer By Any Other Name |website=bloomerscomedy.org |access-date=June 21, 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/bloomers-mark-40-years-edgy-comedy-penn |title=Bloomers mark 40 years of edgy comedy |work=Penn Today |last=DiSanto |first=Jill |date=October 22, 2018 |access-date=June 21, 2021}}</ref> Bloomers performs sketches and elaborate shows almost every semester. The comedy troupe is named after bloomers, the once popular long, loose fitting under garment, gathered at the ankle, worn under a short skirt (developed in the mid 19th century as a healthy comfortable alternative to the heavy, constricting dresses then worn by American women), which were in turn, named after Amelia Jenks Bloomer. Bloomers most well known performing alumna is Vanessa Bayer, formerly of Saturday Night Live and is SNL's longest-serving female cast member.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/bloomers-mark-40-years-edgy-comedy-penn | title=Bloomers mark 40 years of edgy comedy | date=October 22, 2018 }}</ref>

===Religious and spiritual organizations===

The following religious and spiritual organizations have a significant on campus  presence at Penn:

(A) Mainstream Protestantism:
Dating back to 1857, The Christian Association (a.k.a. The CA), is composed primarily of students from [[Religion:Mainline Protestant|Mainline Protestant]] backgrounds.<ref>Cheyney, Edward Potts. "A History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1740–1940." Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (1940): 433–434.</ref> Historically, the CA ran several foreign missions including one in China<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/upt/upt50/mccracken_jc.html | title=Josiah C. McCracken Papers 1906–1993 | publisher=University of Pennsylvania | date=1995 | access-date=March 26, 2015 | author=Chen, Kaiyi | archive-date=April 2, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402094653/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/upt/upt50/mccracken_jc.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> and for decades ran a camp for socio-economically disadvantaged children from Philadelphia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/ups/ups48_1.html|title=Guide, Christian Association Records, 1857–2000, University of Pennsylvania University Archives|access-date=January 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113045613/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/ups/ups48_1.html|archive-date=January 13, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> At present the CA occupies part of the parsonage at Tabernacle United Church of Christ.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.upennca.org/|title=The Christian Association at The University of Pennsylvania |access-date=January 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160120120043/http://www.upennca.org/|archive-date=January 20, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

(B) [[Religion:Judaism|Judaism]]:
Organized Jewish life did not begin on campus in earnest until the start of 20th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/diversity-timeline/1740-1915|title = Timeline of Diversity at Penn: 1740–1915}}</ref> Jewish Life on campus is centered at Penn branch of Hillel International,<ref>{{cite web|title=Resources|url=https://jewishphilly.org/resources/|access-date=July 24, 2021|website=Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia|date=February 8, 2017|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="hillel.org"/> which inspires students to explore Judaism, creates patterns of Jewish living that can be sustained after graduation, provides religious communities, promotes educational initiatives, [[Social:Social justice|social justice]] projects, social and cultural opportunities, and groups focusing on Israel education and politics, and hosts a Kosher Penn  approved dining hall (supervised by the Community Kashrus of Greater Philadelphia).<ref>{{Cite web|title=myJLI.com :: Jewish Learning|url=https://www.myjli.com/index.html?task=pages&page=Jewish%20Learning|access-date=November 22, 2021|website=www.myjli.com}}</ref> In addition to Hillel, the other major Jewish organization with significant impact on Penn's campus is The [[Organization:Chabad|Chabad]] Lubavitch House at Penn (founded in 1980<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lubavitchhouse.com/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/674597/jewish/About-Us.htm|title=About Us - LubavitchHouse.com}}</ref>), which, among other activities, brings together Jewish college students with noted Jewish academics for in-depth discussions and debate.<ref>{{cite news|last=Che |first=Jenny |title=Floch '11 presents winning paper |url=http://thedartmouth.com/2011/04/07/floch-11-presents-winning-paper/ |work=The Dartmouth |publisher=Dartmouth College |date=April 7, 2011|access-date=July 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710094856/http://thedartmouth.com/2011/04/07/floch-11-presents-winning-paper/ |archive-date=July 10, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

(C) [[Organization:Catholic Church|Roman Catholicism]]:
The Penn Newman Catholic Center (the Newman Center), founded in 1893 (as the first Newman Center in the country) with the mission of supporting students, faculty, and staff in their religious endeavors. The organization brings prominent Christian figures to campus, including Rev. Thomas "Tom" J. Hagan, OSFS, who worked in the Newman Center and founded Haiti-based non-profit Hands Together;<ref>{{cite news |last=DiStefano |first=Joseph |title=Our Father – The Pennsylvania Gazette |url=https://thepenngazette.com/our-father/ |access-date=September 6, 2020 |work=Pennsylvania Gazette |date=June 21, 2016}}</ref> and  James Martin SJ (Wharton undergraduate class of 1982<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-08-25 |title=Father Martin's New Mission |url=https://thepenngazette.com/father-martins-new-mission/ |access-date=2023-09-09 |website=The Pennsylvania Gazette |language=en-US}}</ref>). Father Martin, an  editor-at-large of the Jesuit magazine ''America'',<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.americamagazine.org/voices/james-martin-sj |title=James Martin, S.J., Editor At Large |work=America Magazine|access-date=August 7, 2018 |language=en}}</ref> and frequent commentator on the life and teachings of Jesus and [[Unsolved:Ignatian spirituality|Ignatian spirituality]], is especially well known for his outreach to the LGBT community, which has drawn a strong backlash from parts of the Catholic Church, but has provided comfort to Penn students and other members of Roman Catholic community who wish to stay connected with their faith and identify as LGBQT.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Martin |first1=James |title=I called for Christians to love gay people. Now the Catholic alt-right is taking revenge. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/09/21/i-called-for-christians-to-love-gay-people-now-the-catholic-alt-right-is-taking-revenge/ |access-date=November 18, 2019 |date=September 21, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/archbishop-chaput-fr-martin-deserves-respectful-criticism-not-trash-talking-15882/ |title=Archbishop Chaput: Fr. Martin deserves respectful criticism, not trash-talking |date=September 21, 2017 |website=Catholic News Agency |language=en|access-date=August 8, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://international.la-croix.com/news/catholic-cyber-militias-and-the-new-censorship/5923# |title=Catholic Cyber-Militias and the New Censorship |last=Faggioli |first=Massimo |date=December 29, 2017 |website=international.la-croix.com|access-date=August 8, 2019}}</ref>

(D) [[Religion:Hinduism|Hinduism]] and [[Philosophy:Jainism|Jainism]]:
Penn funds (via the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly or similar undergraduate organization) a variety of official clubs focused on India including a number focused on students who are Hindu or Jain such as: (1) 'Pan-Asian American Community House (PAACH)', a center for students to celebrate South Asian, East Asian, Southeast Asian, culture and religion,<ref>{{cite web|date=January 3, 2021|title=UPenn Diversity Statistics: An In-Depth Look|url=https://blog.collegevine.com/upenn-diversity-statistics/|access-date=July 24, 2021|website=blog.collegevine.com}}</ref> (2) 'Rangoli – The South Asian Association at Penn' that educates and informs Penn students (mainly graduate and professional students) with ancestry and/or interest in South Asia whose goals include a desire to "rekindle the spirit of community" through events,<ref>{{cite web|title=Rangoli – South Asian Association at Penn|url=https://www.pennrangoli.org|access-date=January 4, 2023|website=www.pennrangoli.org}}</ref> and (3) 'Penn Hindu & Jain Association', a student-run official club at Penn that has 80 to 110 student members and an extensive alumni network, dedicated to raise awareness of the Hindu and Jain faiths and foster further development of these communities in the greater Philadelphia area by providing a variety of services and hosting a number of events such as Holi Festival (which has been held annually at Penn since 1993<ref>{{cite web|last=Levenson|first=Penn, Staff, Daily Pennsylvanian, Lisa|title=Students celebrate spring at Holi festival|url=https://www.thedp.com/article/1994/04/students_celebrate_spring_at_holi_festival|access-date=July 26, 2021|website=www.thedp.com|language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Penn Holi 2017: Celebrate Your Colors|url=http://www.thedp.com/gallery/penn-holi-colors|access-date=July 26, 2021|website=www.thedp.com|language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Year We Learned to Grieve|url=https://www.34st.com/article/2021/03/pandemic-grief-loss-trauma-bereavement-covid19-anniversary|access-date=July 26, 2021|website=www.34st.com}}</ref>) and ". . . aims to be a home to anyone seeking to explore their spiritual, religious, or social interests."<ref>{{cite web|title=About|url=https://pennhja.com/about.html|access-date=July 26, 2021|website=pennhja.com}}</ref>

(E) [[Religion:Islam|Islam]]:
In 1963, the Muslim Students' Association (MSA National) and Penn chapter of MSA National were founded to facilitate Muslim life among students on college campuses.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pennmsa.com/about |title=About |publisher=Penn MSA |access-date=March 27, 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|title=Muslim Students' Association|url=https://pennclubs.com/club/muslim-students-association|access-date=July 26, 2021|website=pennclubs.com|language=en}}</ref> Penn MSA was established to help Penn Muslims build faith and community by fostering a space under the guidance of Islamic principles<ref>{{cite web|title=Spirituality & Religion {{!}} University of Pennsylvania|url=https://www.upenn.edu/life-at-penn/religion|access-date=July 24, 2021|publisher=University of Pennsylvania}}</ref><ref name="majm">{{cite web |url=https://pennds.org/nelc133/exhibits/show/masjidaljamia/msaandmasjidaljamia |title=Masjid Al-Jamia: The History of Penn's Muslim Students Association and the Mosque in West Philadelphia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190924210149/http://pennds.org/nelc133/exhibits/show/masjidaljamia/msaandmasjidaljamia |archive-date=September 24, 2019 |website=Here and Over There: Penn, Philadelphia and the Middle East |access-date=August 30, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> and towards that goal Penn MSA supports mission of its related umbrella organization, Islamic Society of North America, to "foster the development of the Muslim community, interfaith relations, civic engagement, and better understandings of Islam."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.isna.net/about/|title=Mission|last=Islamic Society of North America|date=2019|website=isna.net|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001203532/http://www.isna.net/about/|archive-date=October 1, 2019|access-date=March 27, 2021}}</ref> The Muslim Life Program at Penn also provides such support and helped cause Penn (in January 2017) to hire its first full-time Muslim chaplain, the co-president of the Association of Campus Muslim Chaplains, Sister Patricia Anton (whose background includes working with Muslim, interfaith, academic and peace-building institutions such as Islamic Society of North America and Islamic Relief). Chaplain Anton's mandate includes supporting and guiding the Penn Muslim community to foster further development of such community by creating a welcoming environment that provides Penn Muslim community opportunities to intellectually and spiritually engage with Islam.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pennmuslimlife.org/ |title=Muslim Life at Penn |publisher=Muslim Life Program University of Pennsylvania |access-date=March 27, 2021 }}</ref> Penn also has a residential house, the Muslim Life Residential Program, which provides a live/learn environment focused on the appreciation of Islamic culture, food, history, and practice, and shows its Penn student residents how Islam is deeply integrated in the culture of Philadelphia  so they may appreciate how Islam influences daily life.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Muslim Life Residential Program {{!}} College Houses & Academic Services|url=https://harnwell.house.upenn.edu/muslimliferp|access-date=July 24, 2021|website=harnwell.house.upenn.edu}}</ref>

(F) [[Religion:Buddhism|Buddhism]]:
Penn has a Buddhist chaplain<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.buddhistdoor.net/features/a-short-introduction-to-won-buddhism/ | title=A Short Introduction to Won Buddhism }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://wondharmacenter.org/dr-rev-grace-song/ | title=Dr. Rev. Grace – Won Dharma Center }}</ref> (as well as chaplains of other faiths) and funds the Penn [[Philosophy:Meditation|Meditation]] and Buddhism Club, which (1) is dedicated to helping Penn students practice mindfulness and meditation and learning  about Buddhism, (2) conducts weekly meetings that begin with a guided meditation and are followed by discussions of topic(s) relating to mindfulness and Buddhism, and (3) organizes other activities such as ramen nights and weekend meditation retreats to the local Won Buddhism center.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://pennclubs.com/club/penn-buddhism-club | title=Penn Meditation and Buddhism Club }}</ref>

==Athletics==
Penn's sports teams are nicknamed the Quakers, but the teams are often also referred to as The Red and Blue as reflected in the popular song sung after every athletic contest where the Penn Band or other musical groups are present.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/people/1800s/goeckel_wm_john.html |title=William John Goeckel (1871–1922) |publisher=The University of Pennsylvania Archives |access-date=July 8, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703235441/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/people/1800s/goeckel_wm_john.html |archive-date=July 3, 2008 }} The song's copyright was originally held by W. H. Boner & Company.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/william-john-goeckel |title=William John Goeckel |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=November 15, 2021 }}</ref> The athletes participate in the Ivy League and Division&nbsp;I (Division&nbsp;I FCS for football) in the NCAA. In recent decades, they often have been league champions in football (14 times from 1982 to 2010) and basketball (22 times from 1970 to 2006). The first athletic team at Penn was the cricket team, which formed in 1842 and played regularly through 1846, the year it lost its "grounds", and then  only played intermittently until 1864, the year it played its first intercollegiate game (against [[Organization:Haverford College|Haverford College]]).<ref name="web.archive.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/sports/cricket/1864.html |title=Cricket: Penn's First Organized Sport |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723200322/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/sports/cricket/1864.html |archive-date=July 23, 2018 |access-date=April 17, 2021}}</ref> The rowing (or crew) team composed of Penn students but not officially representing Penn was formed in 1854 but did not compete against other colleges as official part of Penn until 1879. The rugby football team began to play against other colleges, most notably against College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1874 using a combination of association football (i.e. soccer) and rugby rules (the twenty players on each side were able to use their hands but were not able to pass or bat the ball forward).<ref name="SASH-Farnsworth">{{cite web|url=https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/the-origins-of-soccer-in-philadelphia-part-5-local-college-based-football-after-the-1863-laws-of-the-game/ |title=The origins of soccer in Philadelphia, part 5: Local college-based football after the 1863 Laws of the Game – Society for American Soccer History |last=Farnsworth |first=Ed |date=April 16, 2020 |publisher=Society for American Soccer History}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Kieran|first=John|title=Sports of the Times|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 8, 1932|page=22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/19th-century-athletics/timeline|title = Penn Athletics in the 19th Century: Timeline}}</ref>

===Cricket===

On May 7, 1864, Penn played its first intercollegiate game against [[Organization:Haverford College|Haverford College]]<ref name="cricket"/><ref name="marchcricket">{{cite web |url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/10/penn-cricket-team-historical-feature |title=Penn's oldest sport goes back 168 years, and it's not one you might think |work=The Daily Pennsylvanian |last=March |first=Lochlahn |date=October 28, 2020 |access-date=April 17, 2021 }}</ref> and then proceeded to play Haverford for three consecutive years until 1869, when the Haverford faculty banned cricket away from their college grounds.

After Penn moved west of the Schuylkill River in 1872, Penn played cricket at one of the local clubs (Belmont Cricket Club, the closest to campus at 50th Street and Chester Avenue, Merion Cricket Club, and Germantown Cricket Club), or at Haverford College.<ref name="cricket"/> Though there is evidence of an occasional game during period 1870 through 1875, none were played against other colleges and there were no yearbook pictures for the three years after 1872 when Penn moved from Center City to University City. Starting in 1875 and through 1880, Penn fielded a varsity eleven, which played a few matches each year against opponents that  included Haverford College and Columbia College.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/sports/cricket/histy.html |title=Cricket: Penn's First Organized Sport |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723184343/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/sports/cricket/histy.html |archive-date=July 23, 2018 |access-date=April 17, 2021}}</ref>

[[Image:George Stuart Patterson.jpg|thumb|upright|George Patterson, president of the University of Pennsylvania cricket team in 1877<ref name="cricket"/>]]
In 1881, Penn, Harvard College, Haverford College, Princeton College (then known as College of New Jersey), and Columbia College formed The Intercollegiate Cricket Association,<ref name="marchcricket"/> which [[Organization:Cornell University|Cornell University]] later joined.<ref name="web.archive.org"/> Penn won The Intercollegiate Cricket Association championship (the ''de facto'' national championship) 23 times (18 solo, 3 shared with Haverford and Harvard, 1 shared with Haverford and Cornell, and 1 shared with just Haverford) during the 44 years that The Intercollegiate Cricket Association existed (1881 through 1924).<ref>Haverford won such championship 19 times (3 shared with Penn and Harvard, 1 shared with Penn and Cornell, and 1 shared with Penn), and, in third place, Harvard won it 6 times, none after 1899 (3 shared with Haverford and Penn)) accessed April 18, 2021.</ref>

In the 1890s Penn's cricket team frequently toured Canada and the British Isles.<ref name="Penn Cricket">{{cite web | url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/sports/cricket/histy.html | title=Penn Cricket in the 1800s: Penn's first organized sport: Historical overview | publisher=University of Pennsylvania | work=University Archives and Records Center | date=February 2006 | access-date=July 4, 2018 | author=Seth S. Tannenbaum and Clifton R. Hood | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704034854/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/sports/cricket/histy.html | archive-date=July 4, 2018 | url-status=live}}</ref> In July 1895 an international cricket match between Canada and the United States was played on the Manheim grounds in Germantown section of Philadelphia with six of the United States team being Penn student athletes and, in September of that year, past and then current members of Penn's varsity cricket team played past and then current members of the English cricket teams of Oxford and Cambridge resulting in Penn defeating the Oxford-Cambridge team by one hundred runs.<ref name="web.archive.org"/> This was not surprising as in the last two and a half decades of the 19th century and first decade of the 20th century, Philadelphia was the center of cricket in the United States<ref>{{cite book |url=https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AThe_land_of_contrasts_-_a_Briton%27s_view_of_his_American_kin_%28IA_cu31924028684805%29.pdf&page=1 |page=110 |title=The land of contrasts – a Briton's view of his American kin |last=Muirhead |first=James F. |location=London; New York |publisher=J. Lane |date=1900}}</ref>

Cricket had gained in popularity among the upper class from their travels abroad and cricket clubs sprung up all across the Eastern Seaboard (even today Philadelphia still has three cricket clubs: the Philadelphia Cricket Club, the Merion Cricket Club, and the Germantown Cricket Club).

Perhaps the university's most famous cricket player was George Patterson (class of 1888), who still holds the North American batting record and who went on to play for the professional Philadelphia Cricket Team.<ref>{{cite web|last=Karpyn|first=Michael|date=2016|title=Cricket|url=https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/cricket/|access-date=December 18, 2021|website=The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia}}</ref>

Following the First World War, cricket began to experience a serious decline (as baseball became the preferred sport of the warmer months and Imperial Cricket Conference, Cricket's "... international governing body and forerunner to the current International Cricket Conference (ICC), introduced a regulation making it clear that only countries within the British empire were welcome to compete")<ref name="struckout"/> such that in 1924 Penn fielded its last team in the twentieth century. Starting in 2009, however, Penn once again fielded a cricket team, albeit club, that ended up being the first winner of a tournament for teams from the Ivies.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://americancollegecricket.com/category/universities/upenn/ |title=Universities: UPenn |website=americancollegecricket |access-date=December 24, 2021 }} and {{cite web |url=http://americancollegecricket.com/2011/03/09/college-sports-pioneer-upenn-cricket-names-its-team-for-nationals/ |title=College Sports Pioneer UPenn Cricket Names Its Team for Nationals! |website=americancollegecricket.com |access-date=March 28, 2021 }}</ref>

===Rowing===
[[File:1901 University of PA Crew.jpg|thumb|right|Penn's eight-oared crew in 1901, the first foreign crew to reach the final of the Grand Challenge Cup<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/crew/killarney-1901 |title=1901 Killarney Regatta |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=March 30, 2021 }}</ref> at Henley Royal Regatta]]
[[File:Joe Burk.jpg|thumb|right|Joe Burk, Wharton School class of 1934 and crew coach from 1950 to 1969, was named the "world's greatest oarsman" in 1938<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0705/0705gaz15.html |title=Tribute to a Legend |work=Gazetteer |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=April 20, 2021 }}</ref>]]
Rowing at Penn dates back to at least 1854 with the founding of the University Barge Club. The university currently hosts both heavyweight and lightweight men's teams and an open weight women's team, all of which compete as part of the Eastern Sprints League. Ellis Ward was Penn's first intercollegiate crew coach from 1879 through 1912.<ref>With a one-year gap in 1887 and a four-year gap from 1892 to 1895.</ref> During the course of Ward's coaching career at Penn his "... Red and Blue crews won 65 races, in about 150 starts."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41543330/ellis-ward-former-penn-coach-dies/ |title=Ellis Ward, Former Penn Coach, Dies |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=August 26, 1922 |page=9 |access-date=March 30, 2021 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> Importantly, Ward coached Penn's 8-oared boat to the finals of the Grand Challenge Cup (the oldest and most prized trophy) at the Henley Royal Regatta (but in that final race was defeated by the champion Leander Club).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/crew/henley-1901 |title=1901 Henley Regatta |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=December 24, 2021 }} and {{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/ellis-ward |title=Ellis Ward |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=March 30, 2021 }}</ref>

Penn Rowing has produced a long list of famous coaches and Olympians. Members of Penn crew team, rowers Sidney Jellinek, Eddie Mitchell, and coxswain, John G. Kennedy, won the bronze medal for the United States at 1924 Olympics.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite news|last=March|first=Lochlahn|title=Penn rowing at the Olympics: Nearly a century of history and a recent flourish of success|url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/11/penn-mens-womens-rowing-olympics-century-history-recent-flourish-success|access-date=July 26, 2021|work=The Daily Pennsylvanian}}</ref>

Joe Burk (class of 1935) was captain of Penn crew team, winner of the Henley Diamond Sculls twice, named recipient of the James E. Sullivan Award for nation's best amateur athlete in 1939, and Penn coach from 1950 to 1969. The 1955 Men's Heavyweight 8, coached by Joe Burk, became one of only four American university crews in history to win the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta. The outbreak of World War Two canceled the 1940 Olympics for which Burk was favored to win the gold medal.

Other Penn Olympic athletes and or Penn coaches of such athletes include:
(a) John Anthony Pescatore (who competed in the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games for the United States as stroke of the men's coxed eight which earned a bronze medal<ref>{{cite web |author=Ralph Hickok |url=http://www.hickoksports.com/history/olrowing.shtml |title=History – Olympic Rowing Medalists |publisher=HickokSports.com |date=February 18, 2009 |access-date=December 25, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111215002539/http://hickoksports.com/history/olrowing.shtml |archive-date=December 15, 2011  }}</ref> and later competed at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games in the men's coxless pair),
(b) Susan Francia (winner of gold medals as part of the women's 8 oared boat at 2008 Olympics and 2012 Olympics),
(c) Regina Salmons (member of 2021 USA team),<ref>{{cite web|title=Regina Salmons – 2019 – Senior National Team|url=https://usrowing.org/sports/senior/roster/regina-salmons/207|access-date=July 26, 2021|website=USRowing|language=en}}</ref> 
(d) Rusty Callow, 
(e) Harry Parker,
(f) Ted Nash,<ref name="ReferenceA"/> and
(g) John B. Kelly Jr., son of John B. Kelly Sr. (winner of three medals at 1920 Summer Olympics) and brother of Princess Grace of Monaco, was the second Penn Crew alumnus to win the James E. Sullivan Award<ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.beijing2008.cn/79/24/article214082479.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709113350/http://en.beijing2008.cn/79/24/article214082479.shtml |archive-date=July 9, 2009 |title=USOC seeks nominations for Jack Kelly Fair Play Award |work=Xinhua.net |date=May 25, 2007 |via=beijing2008.cn |access-date=April 19, 2021}}</ref> for being nation's best amateur athlete (in 1947), who was winner of a bronze medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics).

The Penn men's crew team won the National Collegiate Rowing Championship in 1991. A member of that team, Janusz Hooker (Wharton class of 1992)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://about.ljhooker.com.au/about/people---executive-and-profile/board-of-directors |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120529062454/http://about.ljhooker.com.au/about/people---executive-and-profile/board-of-directors |archive-date=May 29, 2012 |title=Board of Directors |website=ljhooker.com.au |access-date=August 17, 2021}}</ref> won the bronze medal in Men's Quadruple Sculls for Australia at the 1996 Summer Olympics.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://worldrowing.com/athlete/c07f6c30-e23d-4acb-9600-5ca28d213662 |title=Robert Williams |website=worldrowing.com |access-date=August 17, 2021 }}</ref> The Penn teams presently row out of College Boat Club, No. 11 Boathouse Row.

===Rugby===
[[File:HeismanPose.jpg|thumb|John Heisman, a University of Pennsylvania Law School class of 1892 alumnus and rugby football player, posing at Penn in 1891 holding elongated ellipsoidal rugby ball and gestures resembling the famed "Heisman Pose"<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wvnews.com/morgantownnews/sports/the-heisman-remains-the-most-iconic-pose-in-sports/article_a529b513-567c-57aa-ac3f-e047dd4146e0.html |title=The Heisman remains the most iconic pose in sports |last=Hertzel |first=Bob |work=The Morgantown News |date=July 10, 2019 |access-date=April 14, 2021 }}</ref>]]
[[File:Pennsylvania - F. Earl Christy. LCCN2013645926.jpg|thumb|Lithograph of University of Pennsylvania rugby player in 1907]]
The Penn men's rugby football team is one of the oldest collegiate rugby teams in the United States.  Indeed, Penn first fielded a team in mid-1870s playing by rules much closer to the rugby union and Association football code rules (relative to American football rules, as such American football rules had not yet been invented<ref name="SASH-Farnsworth"/>). Among its earliest games was a game against College of New Jersey (which in 1895 changed its name to [[Organization:Princeton University|Princeton]]) played in Philadelphia on Saturday, November 11, 1876, which was less than two weeks before Princeton met on November 23, 1876, with Harvard and [[Organization:Columbia University|Columbia]] to confirm that all their games would be played using the rugby union rules.<ref name="Fight song">Rottenberg, Dan (1985) "Fight On, Pennsylvania" Trustees of University of Pennsylvania pp. 25, 28, 33, 34.</ref><ref name="SASH-Farnsworth" /> Princeton and Penn played their November 1876 game per a combination of rugby (there were 20 players per side and players were able to touch the ball with their hands) and Association football codes. The rugby code influence was due, in part, to the fact that some of their students had been educated in English public schools.<ref name=CompleterugbyUSA>Bath (1977) p77</ref>

Among the prominent alumni to play in a 19th-century version of rugby in which rules then did not allow forward passes or center snaps was John Heisman, namesake of the Heisman Trophy and an 1892 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.heisman.com/about-the-heisman/john-w-heisman/|title=John W. Heisman}}</ref>

Heisman was instrumental in the first decade of the 20th century in changing the rules to more closely relate to the present rules of American football.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://biletnikoffaward.com/fredbiletnikoff|title=History of the Forward Pass|website=biletnikoffaward.com|access-date=December 28, 2017}}</ref> One of Heisman's teammates (who was unanimously voted Captain in the fall after Heisman graduated) was Harry Arista Mackey, Penn Law class of 1893<ref>{{cite news |title=Mackey Their New Captain. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/12/06/104102219.pdf |newspaper={{wipe|The New York Times}} |date=December 6, 1892 |access-date=May 1, 2011}}</ref> (who subsequently served as Mayor of Philadelphia from 1928 to 1932).<ref name="Time">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,883116,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100826072846/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,883116,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 26, 2010|magazine={{wipe|Time (magazine)}}|title=Milestones, Oct. 31, 1938|date=October 31, 1938}}</ref>

In 1906, Rugby per Rugby Union code was reintroduced to Penn<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Athletic Notes |magazine=Old Penn Weekly |volume=V |number=4 |date=October 19, 1906 |page=19 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=penn.ark:/81431/p3sb3x504&view=1up&seq=43&q1=rugby |via=Hathi Trust}} and {{cite magazine |title=Athletic Notes |magazine=Old Penn Weekly |volume=V |number=5 |date=October 27, 1906 |page=10 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=penn.ark:/81431/p3sb3x504&view=1up&seq=54&q1=rugby |via=Hathi Trust}}</ref> (as Penn last played per Rugby Union Code in 1882 as Penn played rugby per a number of different rugby football rulebooks and codes from 1883 through 1890s<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kxuEYG6WmOsC&pg=PA53|title=Evolvements of Early American Foot Ball: Through the 1890/91 Season|author=Melvin I. Smith|year=2008|publisher=AuthorHouse |isbn=9781434362476}}</ref>) by Frank Villeneuve Nicholson (Frank Nicholson (rugby union)) University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine (class of 1910),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://classicwallabies.com.au/players/[slug|title={{pipe}} Rugby Union {{pipe}} Player {{pipe}} Classic Wallabies|website=classicwallabies.com.au}}</ref> who in 1904 had captained the Australian national rugby team in its match against England.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=penn.ark:/81431/p3sb3x504&view=1up&seq=43&q1=Rugby|title=Old Penn; weekly magazine of the University of Pennsylvania. Volume 5 (1906–1907).|website=HathiTrust|year=1902}}</ref>

Penn played per rugby union code rules at least through 1912, contemporaneously with Penn playing American gridiron football. Evidence of such may be found in an October 22, 1910, ''Daily Pennsylvanian'' article (quoted below) and a yearbook photo<ref>{{cite web|date=August 17, 2017|title=Penn Men|url=https://www.ivyrugby.com/penn-men|access-date=July 8, 2020|website=Ivy Rugby Conference|language=en}}</ref> that rugby per rugby union code was played.{{cquote|Such is the devotion to English rugby football on the part of University of Pennsylvania's students from New Zealand, Australia, and England that they meet on Franklin Field at 7 o'clock every morning and practice the game. The varsity track and football squads monopolize the field to such an extent that the early hours of the morning are the only ones during which the rugby enthusiasts can play. Any time except Friday, Saturday and Sunday, a squad of 25 men may be seen running through the hardest kind of practice after which they may divide into two teams and play a hard game. Once a week, captain CC Walton, ('11), dental, who hails from New Zealand, gives the enthusiastic players a blackboard talk in which he explains the intricacies of the game in detail.<ref>October 22, 1910, ''The Daily Pennsylvanian''</ref>}}

The player-coach of United States Olympic gold-winning rugby team at the 1924 Summer Olympics was Alan Valentine, who played rugby while at Penn (which he attended during 1921/1922 academic year) as he was getting a master's degree at Wharton.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/notables/athletics/olympics/athletes|title=Penn's Olympic Competitors • University Archives and Records Center|website=University Archives and Records Center}}</ref>

Though Penn played rugby per rugby union rules from 1929 through 1934,<ref>as reported in ''Evolvements of Early American Foot Ball: (see EASTERN USA RUGBY UNION TEAMS 1929/30-1950/51)'' by Melvin I. Smith (Library of Congress Control Number 2008903251 first published December 2, 2008)</ref> there is no indication that Penn had a rugby team from 1935 through 1959 when Penn men's rugby became permanent due to leadership of Harry "Joe" Edwin Reagan III<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/media/2017/06/1960record.pdf |title=The Record of 1960 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |page=217}} Note: a team photo and erroneous report that the then newly founded rugby club was first rugby team Penn had ever fielded</ref> Penn's College class of 1962 and Penn Law class of 1965, who also went onto help create and incorporate (in 1975) and was Treasurer (in 1981) of USA Rugby and Oreste P. "Rusty" D'Arconte Penn's College class of 1966<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ivyrugby.com/penn-men|title=Penn Men|date=August 17, 2017|website=Ivy Rugby Conference}}</ref> Thus, with D'Arconte's hustle and Reagan's charisma and organizational skills, a team, which had fielded a side of fifteen intermittently from 1912 through 1960, became permanent.

In spring of 1984<ref>The Daily Pennsylvanian, Volume C, Number 71, September 12, 1984</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://dparchives.library.upenn.edu/?a=d&d=tdp19840912-01.2.47&srpos=1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-Rugby+Seligson+sohn------|title =Penn women tackle a male-dominated sport |last=Ashley |first=Marc |work=The Daily Pennsylvanian |date=September 12, 1984 |via=Daily Pennsylvanian Digital Archives}}</ref> Penn women's rugby, led by Social Chair Tamara Wayland (College class of 1985 who subsequently became the women's representative to and vice president of USA Rugby South from 1996 to 1998),<ref>[http://bethlynnandersenjd.com/about-andersen-law-pc/tamara-wayland-attorney/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115165716/http://bethlynnandersenjd.com/about-andersen-law-pc/tamara-wayland-attorney/|date=January 15, 2021}} retrieved January 26, 2021</ref> Club President Marianne Seligson, and Penn Law student Gigi Sohn,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.benton.org/blog/flexibility-humility-connectivity-three-ingredients-successful-career|title=Flexibility, Humility, Connectivity: Three Ingredients for a Successful Career|date=February 7, 2019|website=Benton Foundation}}</ref> began to compete. Penn women's rugby team is coached, as of 2020, by (a) Adam Dick,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://upennwrfc.wixsite.com/home/untitled-c1nhz|title=ABOUT|website=home}}</ref> a 300-level certified coach with over 15 years of rugby coaching experience including being the first coach of the first women's rugby team at the [[Organization:University of Arizona|University of Arizona]] and who was a four-year starter at University of Arizona men's first XV rugby team and (b) Philly women's player Kate Hallinan.

Penn's men's rugby team plays in the Ivy Rugby Conference<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.upennrugby.com/|title=The Official Website of the University of Pennsylvania's Men's Rugby Football Club|website=www.upennrugby.com}}</ref> and have finished as runners-up in both 15s and 7s in the Conference and won the Ivy Rugby Tournament in 1992.<ref>{{cite web |work=Rugby Mag |title=College 7s Looks to CRC |date=December 12, 2012 |url=http://www.rugbymag.com/tournaments-special/crc/6668-college-7s-looks-to-crc.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116181127/http://www.rugbymag.com/tournaments-special/crc/6668-college-7s-looks-to-crc.html |archive-date=January 16, 2013 }}</ref> {{as of|2011}}, the club uses the state-of-the-art facilities at Penn Park. The Penn Quakers' rugby team played on national TV at the 2013 Collegiate Rugby Championship, a college rugby tournament that for number of years had been played each June at Subaru Park in Philadelphia, and was broadcast live on NBC. In their inaugural appearance in the tournament, the Penn men's rugby team won the Shield Competition, beating local Big Five rival, Temple University, 17–12 in the final. In the semifinal match of that Shield Competition, Penn Rugby became the first Philadelphia team to beat a non-Philadelphia team in CRC history, with a 14–12 win over the University of Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usasevenscrc.com/fixtures-and-results/|title=Fixtures and Results|work=usasevenscrc.com|access-date=June 24, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616152700/http://www.usasevenscrc.com/fixtures-and-results/|archive-date=June 16, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

As of 2020, Penn men's rugby team <ref>{{cite web|url=https://upennrugby.org/about|title = University of Pennsylvania Men's Rugby Football Club}}</ref> is coached by Tiger Bax,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://upennrugby.org/team|title=University of Pennsylvania Men's Rugby Football Club|first=University of Pennsylvania Men's Rugby Football|last=Club|website=University of Pennsylvania Men's Rugby Football Club}}</ref> a former professional rugby player hailing from Cape Town, South Africa, whose playing experience includes stints in the Super Rugby competition with the Stormers (15s) and Mighty Mohicans (7s), as well as with the Gallagher Premiership Rugby side, Saracens<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/my_club/saracens/9409872.stm|title=Saracens sign South African Bax|date=February 28, 2011|via=news.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> and whose coaching experience includes three successful years as coach at Valley Rugby Football Club in [[Place:Hong Kong|Hong Kong]]; and Tyler May, from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, who played rugby at [[Organization:Pennsylvania State University|Pennsylvania State University]] where he was a first XV player for three years.

Players on the 2019 men's team came from 11 countries: Australia, Botswana, Chile, Great Britain, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, China, Taiwan, South Africa, and the United States).

Penn's graduate business and law schools also fielded rugby teams. The Wharton rugby team has competed from 1978 to the present.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wharthogs.com/ |title=Wharton Rugby Football Club |website=www.wharthogs.com/ |access-date=August 13, 2020}}</ref> The Penn Law Rugby team (1985 through 1993) counts among its alumni Walter Joseph Jay Clayton, III<ref>{{cite web|title=U.S. SEC chairman speaks at Ocean City H.S.|url=http://www.ocsentinel.com/news/u-s-sec-chairman-speaks-at-ocean-city-h-s/article_b8c160b0-821b-11e9-bf75-77961af868b1.html|access-date=July 26, 2019|website=Ocean City Sentinel|archive-date=July 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726204351/http://www.ocsentinel.com/news/u-s-sec-chairman-speaks-at-ocean-city-h-s/article_b8c160b0-821b-11e9-bf75-77961af868b1.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Penn Law class of 1993, and chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from May 4, 2017, until December 23, 2020, Raymond Hulser, former Chief of Public Integrity Section of United States Department of Justice,<ref name=gao>{{cite journal|last=Ekstrand|first=Laurie E. |title=DOJ's Public Integrity Section: Case Management Policies Followed, but Closing Some Matters Took Too Long |journal=U.S. General Accounting Office |date=January 2001|series=Report to the Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives (GAO-01-122) |url=http://www.gao.gov/assets/160/157010.pdf}}</ref> and Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.flsd.uscourts.gov/content/judge-bruce-e-reinhart | title=Judge Bruce e. Reinhart {{pipe}} Southern District of Florida {{pipe}} United States District Court }}</ref> who approved the search of Mar-a-Lago, the residence of former U.S. president Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://nyti.ms/3QWtNY6 | title=Bruce Reinhart, the Magistrate Judge Who Approved the Mar-a-Lago Search | work=The New York Times | date=August 18, 2022 | last1=Montague | first1=Zach | last2=Robles | first2=Frances }}</ref>  Other recent Penn Rugby Alumni include Conor Lamb (Penn College class of 2006 and Penn Law class of 2009), who played for undergraduate team (and had an additional year of eligibility allowing him to continue to playing for undergraduate team while a student at Penn Law per USA Rugby rules), and, as of 2021, is a member of United States House of Representatives, elected originally to Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district, since 2019 is a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district.

===Football===
[[File:ChuckBednarik1952Bowman.jpg|thumb|right|Chuck Bednarik, also known as Concrete Charlie was a three-time All-American at Penn who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, the first player selected in the 1949 NFL Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles, where he went on to win the 1960 NFL Championship and was inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame.]]
Penn first fielded a football team against Princeton at the Germantown Cricket Club in Philadelphia on November 11, 1876.<ref name="Fight song"/>

Penn football made many contributions to the sport in its early days. During the 1890s, Penn's famed coach and alumnus George Washington Woodruff introduced the quarterback kick, a forerunner of the forward pass, as well as the place-kick from scrimmage and the delayed pass. In 1894, 1895, 1897 and 1904, Penn was generally regarded as the national champion of collegiate football.<ref name="Fight song" />  Among the key players on the teams from 1897 to 1900 was Truxton Hare, Sr. who was selected as a charter member of the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951. While primarily a guard, he also ran, punted, kicked off, and drop-kicked extra points.

The achievements of two of Penn's other outstanding players from that era, John Heisman, a Law School alumnus, and John Outland, a Penn Med alumnus, are remembered each year with the presentation of the Heisman Trophy to the most outstanding college football player of the year, and the Outland Trophy to the most outstanding college football interior lineman of the year.

Also, each year the Bednarik Award is given to college football's best defensive player. Chuck Bednarik (class of 1949) was a three-time All-American center/linebacker who starred on the 1947 team and is generally regarded as Penn's all-time finest. In addition to Bednarik, the 1947 squad boasted four-time All-American tackle George Savitsky and three-time All-American halfback Skip Minisi. All three standouts were subsequently elected to the College Football Hall of Fame, as was their coach, George Munger (a star running back at Penn in the early 1930s). Bednarik went on to play for 12 years with the Philadelphia Eagles, and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1969.

Penn's game against [[Organization:University of California|University of California]] at Berkeley on September 29, 1951 (in front of a crowd of 60,000 at Franklin Field), was first college football game to be broadcast in color.<ref name="eyesofageneration.com">[https://eyesofageneration.com/september-29-1951-two-college-football-television-firstsdid-you-know-cbs-an] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210804063937/https://eyesofageneration.com/september-29-1951-two-college-football-television-firstsdid-you-know-cbs-an/|date=August 4, 2021}} accessed August 4, 2021/</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2021/03/penn-football-first-televised-color-game-ncaa-history |title=Highlighting Penn football's small role in color television broadcasting |work=The Daily Pennsylvanian |last=Frank |first=Matthew |date=March 28, 2021 |access-date=August 4, 2021 }}</ref>
ESPN's ''College GameDay'' traveled to Penn to highlight the [[Organization:Harvard University|Harvard]]–Penn game on November 17, 2002, the first time the show had visited an Ivy League campus.

===Ice hockey===
[[File:University of Pennsylvania Hockey Team 1897.jpg|thumb|right|University of Pennsylvania team in front of photo of College Hall in 1896–97, its first season of existence, featuring George Orton, the future winner of gold medal in the 1900 Summer Olympics 2500 meter steeplechase (top row, second from the end of the right side]]
Penn's first ice hockey team competed during the 1896–97 academic year, and joined the nascent Intercollegiate Hockey Association (IHA) in 1898–99. On the first team in 1896–97 were several players of {{wipe|Canada}} background, among them middle-distance runner and Olympian George Orton (the first disabled person to compete in the Olympics). Penn fielded teams intermittently until 1965 when it formed a varsity squad that was terminated in 1977. Penn now fields a club team that plays in  the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division II,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://achahockey.org/view/achahockey/divisions/men-s-d2-1/stats-431?type=standings&level=conference&id=1151&league_id=1800&conference_id=1151|title=Stats – ACHA|website=achahockey.org}}</ref> is a member of the Colonial States College Hockey Conference, and continues to play at the Class of 1923 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cms.business-services.upenn.edu/icerink/ice-hockey/college-hockey.html|title=College Hockey|website=cms.business-services.upenn.edu}}</ref>

===Basketball===
Penn basketball is steeped in tradition. Penn was retroactively recognized as the pre-NCAA tournament national champion for the 1919–20 and 1920–21 seasons by the Helms Athletic Foundation and for the 1919–20 season by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.<ref>{{cite book|title=ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game|editor-last=ESPN|publisher=ESPN Books|location=New York, NY|year=2009|page=535|ISBN=978-0-345-51392-2}}</ref> Penn made its only (and the Ivy League's second) Final Four appearance in 1979, where the Quakers lost to Magic Johnson-led Michigan State in Salt Lake City. (Dartmouth twice finished second in the tournament in the 1940s, but that was before the beginning of formal League play.) Penn's team is also a member of the Philadelphia Big 5, along with La Salle, Saint Joseph's, Temple, Villanova, and [[Organization:Drexel University|Drexel]]. In 2007, the men's team won its third consecutive Ivy League title and then lost in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to Texas A&M. Penn last made the NCAA tournament in 2018 where it lost to top seeded [[Organization:University of Kansas|Kansas]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/03/penn-mens-basketball-ncaa-tournament-kansas-recap-graham-free-throws-upset-bid-falls-short&ved=2ahUKEwjNrumgq57wAhVFAp0JHeZlBkIQFjAHegQICxAC&usg=AOvVaw0Pcy8aiV75XMvPifv3UTOr |title=Penn men's basketball shines early, fades late in NCAA Tournament loss to No. 1 Kansas |work=The Daily Pennsylvanian |last=Pollack |first=Jonathan |date=March 15, 2018 |access-date=April 27, 2021 |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427114308/https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/03/penn-mens-basketball-ncaa-tournament-kansas-recap-graham-free-throws-upset-bid-falls-short%26ved%3D2ahUKEwjNrumgq57wAhVFAp0JHeZlBkIQFjAHegQICxAC%26usg%3DAOvVaw0Pcy8aiV75XMvPifv3UTOr }}</ref>

=== Olympic athletes ===
[[File:Track (men's), 1907 ICAA point winners UPenn.jpg|thumb|right|The University of Pennsylvania men's track team was the 1907 IC4A point winner. Left to right: Guy Haskins, R.C. Folwell, T.R. Moffitt, John Baxter Taylor, Jr., the first black athlete in the U.S. to win a gold medal in the Olympics,<ref name="johntaylor"/> Nathaniel Cartmell, and J.D. Whitham (seated)]]
At least 43 different Penn alumni have earned 81 Olympic medals (26 gold).<ref name="pennolympics"/>{{refn|group=note|See list of University of Pennsylvania people athletics section for list of Penn Olympic medal winners, replete with hyperlinks.}}  Penn won more of its "medals"<ref name="pennolympics"/> (which were actually cups, trophies, or plaques, as medals were not introduced until a later Olympics) at 1900 Summer Olympics held in [[Place:Paris|Paris]] than at any other Olympics.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-put-show-1900-olympics |title=Penn put on a show at the 1900 Olympics |work=Penn Today |last=Johnson |first=Greg |date=August 4, 2021 |access-date=August 5, 2021 }}</ref>

===Curling===
University of Pennsylvania Curling Club qualified for the 2023 National Championship at 6th place, the same ranking they qualified for the 2022 National Championship (where they finished in 2nd place), but in 2023 the team won the national championship by  defeating arch rival [[Organization:Princeton University|Princeton University]] in the championship match (6 to 3).<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Jerez |first1=Roger |last2=Legler |first2=Sophie |date=March 14, 2023 |title=Penn Curling: 2023 National Champions |url=https://recreation.upenn.edu/news/2023/3/14/Curling.aspx |access-date=9 September 2023 |website=recreation.upenn.edu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/04/penn-curling-nationals-2023 | title=Penn Curling defeats reigning champs, brings home 2023 National Championship }}</ref> Penn Curling also won the National Championship in 2016 and is the only East Coast team to have won the Curling National Championship.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://bhamnow.com/2023/03/20/birmingham-native-member-of-penns-2023-college-national-curling-championship-team/ | title=Birmingham native member of Penn's 2023 College National Curling Championship team {{pipe}} Bham Now | date=March 20, 2023 }}</ref>

===Facilities===
[[File:Penn - Franklin Field - 1922.jpg|thumb|right|Penn's Franklin Field, in photograph taken shortly after completion of the upper deck in 1925.]]
Franklin Field, with a present seating capacity of 52,593,<ref name="pennathletics.com">https://pennathletics.com/news/2018/12/21/general-historic-moments.aspx retrieved October 6, 2022</ref> is where the Quakers play football, lacrosse, sprint football and track and field (and formerly played baseball,  field hockey, soccer, and rugby). It is the (a) oldest stadium still operating for college football games,<ref>https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2022-07-26/these-are-10-oldest-stadiums-division-i-college-football%3famp accessed September 13, 2023</ref> (b) first stadium to sport two tiers,<ref>Michael T. Woods "Penn Sports in the 1800s: The Origins of Penn Athletics"University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/}}</ref> (c) first stadium in the country to have a scoreboard, (d) second stadium to have a radio broadcast of football (in 1922 as Pitt versus West Virginia was broadcast in 1921), (e) first stadium from which a commercially televised football game was broadcast (in 1940),<ref name="pennathletics.com"/> and (f) first stadium from which college football game was broadcast in color (on September 29, 1951).<ref name="eyesofageneration.com"/> Franklin Field also played host to the Philadelphia Eagles from 1958 to 1970 (where installation of artificial turf in 1969 caused it to be first NFL stadium to have such artificial turf),<ref name="pennathletics.com"/> and was the site of 18 Army–Navy games between 1899 and 1935.<ref>Didinger, Ray; Lyons, Robert S. (2005). ''The Eagles Encyclopedia''. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. p.&nbsp;205. {{ISBN|1-59213-449-1}}. Retrieved January 8, 2009</ref>

It is currently also used by Penn students for recreation such as intramural and club sports, including touch football and cricket. Since 1895, Franklin Field has hosted the annual collegiate track and field event "the Penn Relays", which is the oldest and largest track and field competition in the United States.<ref>"History of the Penn Relays". Official Site of the Penn Relay Carnival. https://web.archive.org/web/20100427063802/http://www.thepennrelays.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=1720&KEY=&ATCLID=1403812
Retrieved September 13, 2023</ref>
[[File:Palestra.jpg|thumb|right|Palestra (in a photo taken in 2007, eighty years after it was built) is home to Penn's basketball, volleyball, and wrestling teams]]
Penn's home court, the Palestra, is an arena used for Penn's men's and women's basketball teams, volleyball teams, wrestling team, and Philadelphia Big Five basketball, and other high school sporting events. The Palestra has hosted more NCAA Tournament basketball games than any other facility. Penn staff and students make use of the Palestra to play and/or watch basketball, volleyball, and fencing.

Penn's River Fields hosts a number of athletic fields including the Rhodes Soccer Stadium (for both women's and men's soccer, which includes elevated stands for 650 spectators, a 180-degree rotating scoreboard, and the Rapaport Family Suite), the Ellen Vagelos C'90 Field Hockey Field (with special artificial turf), and Irving "Moon" Mondschein Throwing Complex (for [[Engineering:Javelin|javelin]], shot put, discus, and Hammer throw).<ref>{{cite web|date=December 20, 2012|title=River Fields|url=https://www.facilities.upenn.edu/maps/locations/river-fields|access-date=July 26, 2021|website=University of Pennsylvania Facilities and Real Estate Services|language=en}}</ref> In addition, Penn baseball plays its home games at Meiklejohn Stadium at Murphy Field.

Penn's Class of 1923 Arena (with seating for up to 3,000 people) was built to host the University of Pennsylvania Varsity Ice Hockey Team, which has been disbanded, and now  hosts or in the past hosted: (a) Penn's Men's and Penn Women's club ice hockey teams, (b) practices and/or exhibition games for the Philadelphia Flyers, Colorado Avalanche and Carolina Hurricanes, (c) roller hockey for the Philadelphia Bulldogs professional team, and (d) rock concerts such as one in 1982 featuring Prince.<ref>{{Cite web
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[[File:Penn Rowing Club at Boathouse Row.jpg|thumb|right|Penn Rowing Clubhouse, at 11 Boathouse Row on Schuylkill River (in photo taken in July 2023 after renovation), is located roughly two kilometers from main campus]]

The Olympic Boycott Games of 1980 was held at the University of Pennsylvania in response to Moscow's hosting of the 1980 Summer Olympics following the [[Religion:Soviet–Afghan War|Soviet incursion in Afghanistan]]. Twenty-nine of the boycotting nations participated in the Boycott Games.

==Notable people==
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Penn alumni include those who have distinguished themselves in the sciences, academia, politics, business, military, arts, and media.<ref name="OnlineCollege">{{cite web|url=http://www.onlinecollege.org/2011/03/14/the-10-most-powerful-alumni-networks/ |title=The 10 Most Powerful Alumni Networks {{pipe}} Online College Tips – Online Colleges|publisher=Onlinecollege.org |date=March 14, 2011 |access-date=March 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414140119/http://www.onlinecollege.org/2011/03/14/the-10-most-powerful-alumni-networks/ |archive-date=April 14, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Some eleven heads of state or government have been affiliated with Penn: former U.S. presidents, Donald Trump<ref name="OnlineCollege" /> and William Henry Harrison;<ref>William Henry Harrison studied medicine at Penn from 1790 until his father died in 1791; after his father's death Harrison left the University to join the army.{{cite encyclopedia|title=William H. Harrison |url=http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=190|encyclopedia=Ohio History Central An Online Encyclopedia of Ohio History|publisher=Ohio Historical Society|access-date=August 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628231916/http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=190|archive-date=June 28, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> former prime minister of the Philippines, Cesar Virata; the first president of Nigeria, Nnamdi Azikiwe; the first president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah; and the current president of Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara. Penn alumni or faculty also include three United States Supreme Court justices, William J. Brennan, Owen J. Roberts and James Wilson; Supreme Court justices of foreign states (e.g., Ronald Wilson of the High Court of Australia, Ayala Procaccia of the Israel Supreme Court, Yvonne Mokgoro, former justice of the Constitutional Court of {{wipe|South Africa}}); and Irish Court of Appeal justice Gerard Hogan). Within the ranks of Penn's graduates, faculty, and/or trustees are also eight signers of the Declaration of Independence<ref name="upenn1">{{Cite web|url=https://archives.upenn.edu/search/|title=Search|website=University Archives and Records Center}}</ref><ref name="upenn2">{{cite web |title=Penn Signers of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence |url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/notables/signers.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307090215/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/notables/signers.html |archive-date=March 7, 2017 |access-date=January 24, 2017 |publisher=Archives.upenn.edu}}</ref> and seven signers of the United States Constitution<ref name="upenn3">{{cite web |title=Penn Notables – Signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution |url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/notables/signers.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307090215/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/notables/signers.html |archive-date=March 7, 2017 |access-date=December 23, 2021 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania}}</ref> and 24 members of the Continental Congress. 

Penn is also a top feeder school for careers in [[Finance:Finance|finance]] and investment banking on Wall Street.<ref>{{cite web|last=Long|first=Heather |date=October 2, 2014 |title=Want a job on Wall Street? Go to UPenn or Georgetown|url=https://money.cnn.com/2014/10/02/investing/investment-banking-job-linkedin-upenn-georgetown-yale/index.html|access-date=August 26, 2020|website=CNNMoney}}</ref> Penn alumni who received federal aid, 10 years after starting at Penn, have the highest median incomes among alumni of Ivy League schools.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/04/11/how-much-students-earn-after-attending-ivy-league-schools.html | title=Students from this Ivy League school earn the highest salaries—and it's not Harvard or Yale | website={{wipe|CNBC}} | date=April 11, 2023 }}</ref> Alumni include Warren Buffett {{refn|group=note|Buffett studied at Penn for two years before he transferred to the University of Nebraska.}} (CEO of [[Company:Berkshire Hathaway|Berkshire Hathaway]]),<ref name="OnlineCollege" /> and [[Biography:Elon Musk|Elon Musk]] (co-founder of [[Company:PayPal|PayPal]], [[Company:Tesla, Inc.|Tesla]], [[Company:OpenAI|OpenAI]] and [[Company:Neuralink|Neuralink]], founder of [[Company:SpaceX|SpaceX]] and [[Company:The Boring Company|The Boring Company]]). Penn's alumni also include poets William Augustus Muhlenberg, [[Biography:Ezra Pound|Ezra Pound]] and William Carlos Williams; civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.; linguist and political theorist [[Biography:Noam Chomsky|Noam Chomsky]];<ref name="OnlineCollege" /> architect Louis Kahn; cartoonist Charles Addams; actresses Candice Bergen and Elizabeth Banks; journalist Joe Klein; and fashion designer Tory Burch.

Penn alumni have won 53 Tony Awards,<ref>{{Citation | last = Siegel | first = Tatiana | title = NY Comic-Con: Beatles Manager Getting Biopic From Broadway's Vivek J. Tiwary | newspaper = The Hollywood Reporter | date = October 10, 2012 | url = https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/fifth-beatle-vivek-j-tiwary-brian-epstein-377904 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.pilambdaphi.org/news/vivek-tiwary-award-winning-broadway-producer-who-brought-punk-to-broadway-96-penn/ | title=Vivek Tiwary: Award winning producer who brought punk to Broadway - '96 Penn | date=August 9, 2022 }}</ref> 17 Grammy Awards,<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2021-03-17 |title=Indian American Vivek Tiwary Wins Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album for 'Jagged Little Pill' |url=https://americankahani.com/entertainment/indian-american-vivek-tiwary-wins-grammy-for-best-musical-theater-album-for-jagged-little-pill/ |access-date=2023-09-09 |website=American Kahani |language=en-US}}</ref> 25 Emmy Awards,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.foxsports.com/personalities/tom-rinaldi/bio | title=Tom Rinaldi Bio & Career Accomplishments }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.profootballnetwork.com/who-is-tom-rinaldi-breaking-down-the-award-winning-journalists-career/ | title=Who is Tom Rinaldi? Breaking Down the Award-Winning Journalist's Career | date=February 12, 2023 }}</ref> 13 Academy Awards (and one alumnus<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.businessinsider.com/egot-how-long-it-took-every-winner-and-john-legend-to-get-all-awards-2018-9 | title=This chart shows how long it took all 15 EGOT winners to get their awards, and John Legend was one of the fastest | website=Business Insider }}</ref> who has earned all four awards, known as an EGOT).{{refn|group=note|See List of University of Pennsylvania people 'Arts, media, and entertainment' section for list of Penn alumni who earned Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony  award winners, replete with hyperlinks.}}

Penn alumni have also had a significant impact on the United States military as they include Samuel Nicholas, United States Marine Corps founder, and William A. Newell, whose congressional action formed a predecessor to the current United States Coast Guard,<ref name="MJ-obit">{{Cite news |url=http://www.digifind-it.com/data/matawan/journal/1901/1901-08-15.pdf |title=Death of Governor Newell |work=The Matawan Journal |date=August 15, 1901 |access-date=July 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723221754/http://www.digifind-it.com/data/matawan/journal/1901/1901-08-15.pdf |archive-date=July 23, 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>{{rp|at=p.1 col.5 {{ndash}} p.2 col.1}} and numerous alumni have become generals or similar rank in the United States Armed Forces. At least 2 Penn alumni have been [[Organization:NASA|NASA]] [[Astronaut|astronaut]]s<ref name="garrettreisman.com"/><ref>{{Cite web|title=Biographical Data|url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/bluford_guion.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=October 14, 2023|archive-date=February 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212170249/https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/bluford_guion.pdf}}</ref> and 5 Penn alumni have been awarded the Medal of Honor.<ref name="Congressional Medals of Honor, Reci"/><ref name="na">{{cite web |title=Frederick C. Murphy, Our Facility's Namesake |url=https://www.archives.gov/boston/exhibits/murphy |website=archives.gov |date=August 15, 2016 |publisher=National Archives at Boston |access-date=October 14, 2023}}</ref> As of 2023, there have been 38 Nobel laureates affiliated (see List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation) with the University of Pennsylvania.<ref name="UPennLaureates">{{cite web|url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/notables/awards/nobel.html|title=Nobel Laureates at Penn|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|access-date=October 20, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103064008/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/notables/awards/nobel.html|archive-date=November 3, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="OnlineCollege" /><ref name=":1" />

In addition to active alumni chapters globally, in 1989, the university bought a 14-story clubhouse building (purpose-built for Yale Club) in New York City from [[Organization:Touro College|Touro College]] for $15 million<ref name=Historic>{{cite web |url=http://nycnpc.org/db/bb_files/2010-FormerYaleClubofNewYorkCityBuilding.pdf |title=(Former) Yale Club of New York City Building (now Penn Club of New York) |publisher=Landmarks Preservation Commission of New York City |date=February 9, 2010 |access-date=July 24, 2022 }}</ref> to house Penn's largest alumni chapter. After raising a separate $25 million (including $150,000+ donations each from such alumni as Estee Lauder heirs Leonard Lauder and Ronald Lauder, Saul Steinberg, Michael Milken, Donald Trump, and Ronald Perelman) and two years of renovation,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/14/garden/currents-clubhouse-for-penn.html|title=CURRENTS; Clubhouse for Penn (Published 1994)|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 14, 1994|last1=Moonan|first1=Wendy}}</ref> the Penn Club of New York moved to its current location at 30 West 44th Street on NYC's Clubhouse Row.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/09/realestate/penns-racing-to-join-clubhouse-row.html |title=Penn's Racing to Join Clubhouse Row|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|first=Peter|last=Slatin|date=May 9, 1993|access-date=November 2, 2020}}</ref>

==See also==
* List of universities by number of billionaire alumni
* Education in Philadelphia
* Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP)
* University of Pennsylvania Press
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==References==
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<ref name="cricket">{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015062223006&view=1up&seq=10 |title=Cricket at University of Pennsylvania | first=Archibald H. Jr. | last=Graham |date=1930 |via=Hathi Trust |access-date=December 24, 2021}} which was privately printed in 1930 and now on deposit with University of Michigan Library system.</ref>

<ref name="johntaylor">{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/79112 |title=John Taylor |work=Olympedia |access-date=March 5, 2021}}</ref>

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==External links==
* [http://www.pennathletics.com/ University of Pennsylvania athletics website]

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