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  2. University of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn [note 3] or UPenn [note 4]) is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.It is one of nine colonial colleges and was chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence when Benjamin Franklin, the university's founder and first president, advocated for an educational institution that trained ...

  3. History of the University of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.Its history began when in 1740, when a group of Philadelphians organized to erect a great preaching hall for George Whitefield, a traveling evangelist. [1]

  4. List of presidents of the University of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, which began operating in 1751 as a secondary school, the Academy of Philadelphia, and added an institution of higher learning in 1755, the College of Philadelphia.

  5. University of Pennsylvania professor apologizes for posts ...

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    A professor at the University of Pennsylvania has apologized amid accusations that she praised the suspect in the killing of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare on the streets of New York.. In an ...

  6. University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied ...

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    The University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science (Penn Engineering or SEAS) is the undergraduate and graduate engineering school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia. The school offers programs that emphasize hands-on study of engineering fundamentals (with an offering of ...

  7. University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education

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    Formally established as a department in 1893 [2] and a school at the University of Pennsylvania in 1915, [3] Penn GSE has historically had research strengths in teaching and learning, the cultural contexts of education, language education, human development, quantitative research methods, and practitioner inquiry. Katharine Strunk is the ...

  8. University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing - Wikipedia

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    The building originally housed the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing which was a three-year diploma in nursing. Students there also attended classes at UPenn for chemistry, anatomy and physiology, and two electives of their choice. The school was founded in 1886 and graduated its last class in 1978. [citation needed]

  9. University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences

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    The 1755 charter of Benjamin Franklin's College of Philadelphia paved the way to form the College of Arts and Sciences, which was originally for men only.In 1933, Penn established the College of Liberal Arts for Women, which was meant to provide women with a formal liberal arts education to women rather than one designed specifically for teachers. [5]