University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private research university in Philadelphia and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1740, it includes undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools.

Perelman School of Medicine: The medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, founded in 1765. It anchors Penn’s medical education and biomedical research.
Benjamin Franklin: An American printer, writer, scientist, diplomat, and political leader who lived from 1706 to 1790. Franklin proposed an academy in Philadelphia that helped inspire Penn’s founding.
Jonas Salk: An American physician and virologist who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. Salk conducted the vaccine research at Penn’s medical school.
ENIAC: An early electronic general-purpose computer built at the University of Pennsylvania during World War II. ENIAC is a landmark example of research conducted at Penn.
Ivy League: An athletic conference of eight private universities in the northeastern United States. Penn is one of the eight institutions in this conference.
University of Pennsylvania Law School: The University of Pennsylvania’s law school, commonly known as Penn Carey Law. It is a major professional school within the university.
Academy and College of Philadelphia: The colonial institution established in Philadelphia in 1755 that developed into the University of Pennsylvania. It marks Penn’s transition from an academy to a college.
Drew Weissman: An American physician-scientist whose work on modified mRNA helped enable mRNA vaccines. Weissman’s vaccine research was conducted at Penn with Katalin Karikó.
mRNA vaccine: A vaccine that uses messenger RNA to instruct cells to produce an antigen and trigger an immune response. Penn research by Karikó and Weissman helped enable this vaccine technology.
Drexel University: A private research university in Philadelphia known for cooperative education programs. Drexel is Penn’s nearby private-university counterpart, with a distinct cooperative-education model.

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