Roger Arliner Young’s brilliance made her the first black woman in the US to hold a doctorate in zoology. But her academic promise was failed by a system too rooted in prejudice to accept her as an equal.

The University of Pennsylvania's Division of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics is pleased to announce updates to its Plan of Action: First Steps to Combat Racism (released this summer) and the composition of its Racial Justice Task Force.

The historical roots and contemporary tentacles of structural racism were the subject of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics' latest virtual seminar on October 16 that brought together five top experts on race and health.

Dr. M. Grace Calhoun, the T. Gibbs Kane, Jr. W'69 Director of Athletics and Recreation at Penn, has been named to the 2020 class of "Game Changers: Women in Sports Business" by the Sports Business Journal.

Amid mounting pressure from colleges and universities, including Penn, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has revoked a controversial policy affecting international students with F-1 visas.

Provost Wendell Pritchett recently announced the appointment of Mamta Motwani Accapadi as Vice Provost for University Life.

This Public Safety Review and Outreach Initiative seeks to conduct a comprehensive review and outreach program to assess Penn’s success in creating a physically and emotionally safe environment.

Penn announces plans to remove statue of George Whitefield and forms working group to study campus names and iconography.

President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett are pleased to announce the appointment of Charles L. “Chaz” Howard as the University of Pennsylvania’s first-ever Vice President for Social Equity and Community.

Erika H. James has been named the next dean of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, effective July 1.  The announcement was made today by Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett.