Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Campus Urban, 992 acres (4.01 km2) total: 300 acres (1.2 km2), University City campus; 600 acres (2.4 km2), New Bolton Center; 92 acres (0.37 km2), Morris Arboretum Colors Red Blue[3][4] Athletics NCAA Division I

alist) and 4x400m relay defending Olympic gold medalist Sanya Richards '06.[131][132] Mary Lou Retton (the first female gymnast outside Eastern Europe to win the Olympic all-around title, five-time Olympic medalist, and 1984 Sports Illustrated Sportswoman of the Year) also attended the university.[133] Also an alumnus is Dr. Robert Cade, the inventor of the sport drink Gatorade.
Other notable alumni include prominent businessman Red McCombs, Diane Pamela Wood, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. Also an alumnus is Admiral William H. McRaven, credited for organizing and executing Operation Neptune's Spear, the special ops raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden.[134]University of Pennsylvania
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This article is about the private Philadelphia-based Ivy League university colloquially referred to as "Penn". For the public university located in State College, Pennsylvania, and colloquially known as "Penn State", see Pennsylvania State University.
University of Pennsylvania
Arms of the University of Pennsylvania
Arms of the University of Pennsylvania
Latin: Universitas Pennsylvaniensis
Motto    Leges sine moribus vanae (Latin)
Motto in English    Laws without morals are in vain
Established    1740[note 1]
Type    Private
Endowment    $7.7 billion (2013)[1]
Budget    $6.007 billion[2]
President    Amy Gutmann
Provost    Vincent Price
Academic staff    4,246 faculty members[2]
Admin. staff    2,347[2]
Students    21,329[2]
Undergraduates    10,301[2]
Postgraduates    11,028[2]
Location    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Campus    Urban, 992 acres (4.01 km2) total: 300 acres (1.2 km2), University City campus; 600 acres (2.4 km2), New Bolton Center; 92 acres (0.37 km2), Morris Arboretum
Colors         Red
     Blue[3][4]
Athletics    NCAA Division I
Nickname    Quakers
Affiliations    Ivy League, AAU, COFHE
Website    Upenn.edu
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The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn or UPenn) is an American private research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is one of the Ivy League universities and one of the nine original Colonial Colleges. Incorporated as The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn is also one of 14 founding members of the Association of American Universities.
Benjamin Franklin, Penn's founder, advocated an educational program that focused as much on practical education for commerce and public service as on the classics and theology. Penn was one of the first academic institutions to follow a multidisciplinary model pioneered by several European universities, concentrating multiple "faculties" (e.g., theology, classics, medicine) into one institution.[5] It was also home to many other educational innovations. The first school of medicine in North America (Perelman School of Medicine, 1765), the first collegiate business school (Wharton, 1881) and the