3401 Spruce St
Philadelphia, PA 19104
3401 Spruce St
Philadelphia, PA 19104
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania is the flagship hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and is located in the University City section of West Philadelphia. The hospital was founded at its current location in 1874 by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, making it the oldest university-owned teaching hospital in the country.For 2015-16, U.S. News & World Report ranked HUP at #9 on its list of the best hospitals in the nation. In the same report, U.S. News ranked HUP #1 in the region and #1 in the Philadelphia metro area. The same report rated HUP in the top 20 nationally in 11 of the 16 individual specialties it measured.CampusThe hospital is located on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) along with several other health related organizations including a medical school, a nursing school, a radiology technologist school, veterinary and dental medicine schools, research laboratories and outpatient facilities including the Abramson Cancer Center and the Roberts Proton Therapy Center. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is also on this campus. Although it engages in many collaborative efforts with Penn, CHOP is not part of the Penn Health System.
Wharton is recognized as one of the world’s leading business schools, with the largest and most influential alumni network. Our faculty, working in 10 academic departments and across 20 research centers and initiatives, are among the most published in the world.
The Penn Museum (the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) is dedicated to the study and understanding of human history and diversity. Founded in 1887, the Museum has sent more than 300 archaeological and anthropological expeditions to all the inhabited continents of the world. With an active exhibition schedule and educational programming for children and adults, the Museum offers the public an opportunity to share in the ongoing discovery of humankind's collective heritage. The Penn Museum is located at 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (on Penn's campus, across from Franklin Field). Public transportation to the Museum is available via SEPTA's Regional Rail Line at University City Station; the Market-Frankford Subway Line at 34th Street Station; trolley routes 11, 13, 34, and 36; and bus routes 21, 30, 40, and 42. Museum hours are Tuesday and Thursday through Sunday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, and Wednesday, 10:00 am to 8:00 pm, with P.M. @ PENN MUSEUM evening programs offered select Wednesdays. Closed Mondays and holidays. Admission donation is $15 for adults; $13 for senior citizens (65 and above); free for U.S. Military (and free for military families over the summer, through participation with the Blue Star program); $10 for children and full-time students with ID; free to Members, PennCard holders, active U.S. Military, and children 5 and younger. Hot and cold meals and light refreshments are offered to visitors with or without Museum admission in The Pepper Mill Café; the Museum Shop and Pyramid Shop for Children offer a wide selection of gifts, books, games, clothing and jewelry. The Penn Museum can be found on the web at www.penn.museum. For general information call 215.898.4000. For group tour information call 215.746.8183.
PennDesign is an inventive place of learning where the many fields of architecture, planning, preservation, landscape and the fine arts come together on shared ground. At PennDesign, we are dedicated to design that is creative in nature and transformative in impact. In a collaborative environment that fosters inquiry and experimentation, faculty and students seek to recast the distinction between theory and practice, expand knowledge and invention through research, and contribute works of value and beauty.
The School of Engineering and Applied Science, also known as SEAS, is one of the four undergraduate schools of the University of Pennsylvania. The School offers programs that emphasize hands-on study of engineering fundamentals (with an offering of approximately 300 courses) while encouraging students to leverage the educational offerings of the broader University. Engineering students can also take advantage of research opportunities through interactions with Penn’s School of Medicine, School of Arts and Sciences and the Wharton School.The School of Engineering and Applied Science offers bachelors, masters and PhD degree programs in contemporary fields of engineering study. The nationally ranked bioengineering department offers the School’s most popular undergraduate degree program. The Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology, offered in partnership with the Wharton School, allows students to simultaneously earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering. The School of Engineering and Applied Science also offers several masters programs, which include: Executive Master’s in Technology Management, Master of Biotechnology, Master of Computer and Information Technology, Master of Computer and Information Science and a Master of Science in Engineering in Telecommunications and Networking.SEAS historyThe study of engineering at the University of Pennsylvania can be traced back to 1850 when the University trustees adopted a resolution providing for a professorship of "Chemistry as Applied to the Arts". In 1852, the study of engineering was further formalized with the establishment of the School of Mines, Arts and Manufactures. The first Professor of Civil and Mining Engineering was appointed in 1852. The first graduate of the school received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1854. Since that time, the school has grown to six departments. In 1973, the school was renamed as the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Penn Alumni is the formal name for our family of over 290,000 living Penn graduates. Of these, the split of undergraduate degree (52.5%) and graduate degree holders (47.5%) is fairly even. Most alumni reside in the U.S., but Penn does have over 23,000 alumni living abroad. Not surprisingly, the largest geographic concentration of our alumni is in the greater Philadelphia area with over 67,000. The metro NY area has over 46,000 alumni in residence, and Baltimore/ Washington has about 13,000 supporters of the Red and Blue. Boston and San Francisco hold the number four and five spots for most alumni with 10,100 and 9,500, respectively.
For over 150 years since the first recorded class organization in 1865, class officers have been elected to instill a sense of pride and tradition in University affairs. The Class Boards represent the interests of their respective class in all official campus ceremonies, and the organization is responsible for planning major campus celebrations and class events at the University of Pennsylvania. VISION The purpose of each independent Class Board at the University of Pennsylvania includes: • Creating substantive, class-specific programs that contribute broadly to the University, local, and national communities on behalf and to the direct benefit of their respective class; • Facilitating the University's greatest traditions in order to instill pride in our community; • Planning social events designed to foster unity among our classmates; • Designing, ordering, and distributing class paraphernalia in an effort to encourage class identity; • Representing the voice of their respective class to the University, community, persons or outside groups whenever such representation is called for. ELECTIONS Class officers are elected for a one-year term in the spring of every year in the general election process organized by the Nominations and Elections Committee. The Freshman Class Board is elected during the fall. Any full-time undergraduate student is elegible to run for one of 10 positions. FINANCES With the goal of reaching every student, the Class Boards strive to plan events that are as affordable and as accessible as possible, taking into account that college students are price-sensitive and come from various socio-economic backgrounds.
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The Anne & Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library, also known as the Furness Library, is located on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, on the east side of College Green. Designed by the acclaimed Philadelphia architect Frank Furness, the red sandstone, brick-and-terra-cotta Venetian Gothic giant—part fortress and part cathedral—was built to be the primary library of the University, and to house its archeological collection. The cornerstone was laid in October 1888, construction was completed in late 1890, and the building was dedicated in February 1891.
The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies (The Lauder Institute) is part of a dual degree program at the University of Pennsylvania, combining an MA in International Studies from the School of Arts & Sciences with an MBA from The Wharton School or JD from the Law School. Students also earn a Language Proficiency certificate based upon an oral proficiency interview certified by Language Testing International in either Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.HistoryThe Lauder Institute was founded in 1983 by Leonard A. Lauder and Ronald S. Lauder in memory of their father, Joseph H. Lauder. Leonard A. Lauder was awarded the Foreign Language Advocacy Award in 1990 by the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in recognition of Mr. Lauder's support for the requirement that MBA students in the Institute attain superior levels of linguistic proficiency and engage in immersion experiences to attain cultural proficiency.