Ethan Young

Skip to Content, Navigation, or Footer. Andy Mei / The Daily Pennsylvanian In the fall of 2013, hundreds of students entered the doors of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School for the first time. One of them — an Austrian woman — arrived with requests from Jeffrey Epstein to recruit women on campus for his sex trafficking operation, according to recently released documents.

Penn proposed a $200 million office and laboratory building at 33rd and Chestnut streets before ultimately deciding to scrap the project. The January 2026 building plans — which have not previously been reported — called for nearly 200,000 square feet of “short-term” lab and “long-term” office space. The site is currently a parking lot located between Amy Gutmann Hall and The Study at University City, a hotel.

Emeritus School of Nursing professor Jacqueline Fawcett died on March 22. Nursing School Dean Antonia Villarruel notified the school’s community of Fawcett’s death in a Monday email. Fawcett’s career in nursing spanned more than 45 years before her retirement in 2025. “Jacqui as she was known to many of us, was clear in her conviction to nursing and nursology as a discipline,” Villarruel wrote.