UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

INTRODUCTION ON UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

The University of Pennsylvania (most commonly known as Penn and/or UPenn) has been a private, Ivy League university situated in Philadelphia, united States Incorporated as The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, this university is among st the 14 founding members of the Association of American Universities and one of the nine initial colonial colleges.

Benjamin Franklin, Penn's founder, advocated an educational program that focused as much on sectional education for commerce as well as public service on the classics and theology although Franklin's curriculum was never put into practice. The university coat of arms features a dolphin on the red chief, adopted directly from the Franklin family's own coat of arms.

CAMPUS AT UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Much of Penn's architecture was designed by the Cope & Stewardson firm, whose principal architects merged the Gothic architecture of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge for the local landscape to build the Collegiate Gothic style. The present core campus covers over 279 acres (1.13 km2) in a neighboring area of West Philadelphia's University City section; the older heart of the campus consists of the University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District. Every one of Penn's schools and most of its research institutes are located inside this campus. Also, the surrounding neighborhood includes several restaurants and pubs, a large upscale grocery store, and on the western edge of campus is a movie theater.

The campus has several notable art installations 'inside the university. The "Covenant", better known by the students at this university as "The Tampons", is a big red structure located on Locust Walk between the high rise residences which was initiated in the year 1975 and is made of rolled sheets of milled steel. A larger-than-life white button, known as "The Button", which is a popular sculpture. It sits at the south entrance of Van Pelt Library and has button holes which are large enough to stand on it.  It also has a replica of the "Love" sculpture, part of a series created by Robert Indiana. Those sculptures are carved out of  painted aluminum sculpture and was installed in the year 1998.

NOTABLE ALUMNI FROM UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Penn has produced many alumni that have proved themselves in the field of sciences, the military, arts,     academia, politics, and media. All the merits such as the size, quality, and diversity of Penn's alumni body have been able to form the institution as one of the most powerful networks of alumni in the United States, and internationally as well.

More than twelve heads of the state or the government have attended or graduated from Penn, which includes former U.S. president William Henry Harrison who did attended the medical school for less than  about a semester, the first president of Nigeria, former Prime Minister of the Philippines Cesar Virata; the first president of Ghana, Nnamdi Azikiwe;Kwane Nkrumah; and also the current president of Ivory Coast know as Alassane Ouattara. Other many more notable politicians who graduated and holds a degree from Pennsylvania university includes India's Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha, former ambassador of China, former presidential candidate of the year 2012 and governor from Utah Jon Huntsman, Ernesto J. Cordero, Mexico's current minister of finance, long-serving Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter, and at last former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell.