Putting an end to campus waste
PennMOVES gathers refrigerators, electronics, furniture, glassware, clothing and nonperishable foods left behind by students, and distributes those items to a host of nonprofit organizations throughout the city. Read more...
Garofalo named ‘green’ czar
Daniel Garofalo, a planner and architect in the Office of Facilities and Real Estate Services since 2002 has been appointed Penn’s first environmental sustainability coordinator and facilities planner. Read more...
Student Spotlight: Sarah Abroms
This senior biology major helped establish the University’s sustainability website, providing a student perspective, and this summer, will work with Penn’s Environmental Sustainability Advisory Committee to help devise a plan to make the University carbon neutral. Read more...
Profs challenge the ‘extra water’ myth
Kidney expert Stanley Goldfarb says the notion that eight glasses of water a day will improve skin tone, remove toxins from the body, prevent migraine headaches and suppress appetite is nonsense. Read more...
‘Truthiness’ at Penn
For four nights, comedian Stephen Colbert broadcast "The Colbert Report," his nightly satiric news and opinion show, at Penn's Annenberg Center. Read more...
Green roof takes root on campus
Completed late last fall, the plants on the Kings Court English College House green roof are beginning to flourish in the sunshine. Read more...
New ‘quad’ on Hill Field
Hill Field will be the site of a long-awaited new College House, but the green-space core of Hill Field will be preserved, and even improved, as part of the plan. Read more...
Global initiative welcomes Wharton
The business school is participating in the Women Entrepreneurship Education Initiative, which aims to provide business and management education to 10,000 underserved women in developing and emerging markets. Read more...
Exhibit highlights local black
pioneer
Penn's music library pays tribute to Francis Johnson, a free man born in 1792, who was the first published African-American composer and one of the important early nineteenth century musicians in all of America. Read more...
Special Report: Penn and the Brain
In this special report, we highlight just a fraction of the amazing research about the brain taking place at more than 40 centers, institutes and research groups, in disciplines as wide-ranging as philosophy, neurosurgery, criminology and psychiatry. Read more...
Student Spotlight: David Helfenbein
This political science and communications senior has supported and worked for Sen. Hillary Clinton since he was just 13 years old. Read more...
How evolution has kept us alive
"Surviving: The Body of Evidence” comes to life April 19 at the Penn Museum, an interactive exhibit exploring the evolutionary process and its effect on human beings. Read more...
Clinton: Racism remains an issue
Former President Bill Clinton says the dramatic increase of diversity in our nation has “helped to move us closer to one America.” But still, he cautions, inequality exists. Read more...
Presidents (and First Ladies) at Penn
Penn has a long legacy of presidential appearances here--a legacy that dates even further back than the Presidency itself. Read more...
Writers and worldviews at KWH
The "Writers Without Borders" program will bring international writers, performance artists, journalists, poets, autobiographers and dramatists to Penn to share their insights, ideas and worldviews. Read more...
University chooses design firm for landmark Penn Park project
The landscape architecture firm of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates has been selected to design Penn Park, a centerpiece of the University’s 30-year master plan, Penn Connects. Read more...
Seeking justice in wartorn nations
There are some places in the world where justice remains elusive—if not entirely out of reach. That’s especially true in countries ravaged by, or recovering from, ongoing conflict. Read more...
President Clinton coming to Penn
Former President Bill Clinton opens the two-day “Kerner Plus 40” symposium with a keynote speech on Feb. 28. Read more...
The Insider
Kalpen Modi—better-known as the TV and film actor Kal Penn—is on campus this semester to teach the class, “Asian Americans in the Media.” Modi is using critical readings, trade publications, several iconic films and personal stories in his class. Read more...
Student Spotlight: Joyce Meng
This Rhodes Scholar is completing a joint program at Wharton and SAS and hopes to someday land a job with the private sector arm of the World Bank. Read more...
Penn Dental opens new perio clinic
The new D. Walter Cohen and Morton Amsterdam Periodontal Clinic is a state-of-the-art teaching and learning facility built both to enhance the educational experience of the school’s students and better accommodate the thousands of patients who are seen at the clinic each year. Read more...
Penn launches partnership with CarShare
A new partnership joins Penn with PhillyCarShare, a local nonprofit dedicated to reducing the number of cars in the city through vehicle-sharing. Read more...
Will rebates really work?
Wharton's Jeremy Siegel says the tax rebate plan is likely to provide the economy with a one-time boost, but cautions it’s no panacea, and may come at a long-term cost. Read more...
Dig turns up surprises, raises
new questions
A recent excavation of Mt. Lykaion in Greece has found pottery remains and evidence of activity from an ash alter they believe was used as early as 3,000 BCE—about 1,000 years before Greeks began worshipping the god Zeus. Read more...
Truth & Reconciliation?
Recently, a group of students from Penn Law traveled to Ghana’s Buduburam refugee camp to help Liberian refugees get the word out about their struggles, both past and present. Read more...
Update to Penn’s building boom
The construction boom at Penn is in full swing, with projects in the planning stages, already under way, or nearing completion from 40th Street to the Schuylkill River. Read more...
Student Spotlight: Elizabeth Ramos
Lizzie Ramos first discovered her love for mechanics, electricity and magnetism in her high school physics class. From then on, she says, there was no doubt in her mind that engineering was her career path of choice. Read more...
Hort Center symbolizes Arboretum’s comeback
Officials at Penn's Morris Arboretum have waited 30 years to construct a multi-use horticulture center. Read more...
The future of medicine
Launched late last year, Penn’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine will promote discoveries in stem cell biology to treat some of the world’s most deadly diseases, wound healing and aging. Read more...
A peak at PIK
The Penn Faculty Senate’s third annual Founder’s Day Symposium will address a theme near and dear to Penn President Amy Gutmann’s heart: The integration of knowledge. Read more...
A digital town hall
Communities can bridge gaps, address local problems and strengthen ties through i-neighbors.org, a site developed by ASC Assistant Professor Keith Hampton. Read more...
Cat mapping
While there are myriad reasons why a group of leading veterinary and genetic researchers from around the country sequenced the genome of a domestic cat, one stands out above the rest: People love their pets. Read more...
Reclaiming the riverfront
Penn Praxis develops a plan for the Deleware River that includes pedestrian-friendly areas, public transit, mixed-use development and green parks. If realized, the city could be utterly transformed. Read more...
Polman on Philly politics
Dick Polman, Inquirer columnist and Penn's Povich Writer-in-Residence, talks about what made Mayor-elect Michael Nutter so appealing to voters and what residents may expect from a Nutter term. Read more...
The 'missing link' for nano
Though the University is ranked among the top institutions in the world for nanotech research, teaching and breakthroughs, there’s just one area where Penn lags behind: Facilities. That's about to change. Read more...
Student Spotlight: Michael
Simontacchi-Gbologah
This Dental student reaches out to minority high school students and undergraduates to encourage them to think about dentistry as a career. Read more...
Wharton gives back
For the past eight years, the Marines have been helping Wharton MBA students learn about resilience and leadership. Now, with the creation of a scholarship program named after a fallen Marine, Wharton is returning the favor. Read more...
Where the brain meets the law
A Penn Law professor sets out to understand exactly what the relationship should be between neuroscience and the law. Read more...
Penn team reaches out with new climate-change project
Penn scientists will study the ecological and societal consequences of increased grazing and rising temperatures in northern Mongolia to better predict how continued warming will impact the basic ecology of the area. Read more...
A new way to look at women's heath?
Policymakers, politicians, health officials and researchers have never had the full picture of exactly what is going on with women in urban areas--until now. Read more...
Making their block beautiful
Residents of the 800 block of South 48th Street call it the “Block of the Four P’s,” for the things that have made the block a stable and unique place in University City: people, plants, porches and parties. Read more...
A call for change
Poor administration--that was the biggest problem voters faced in 2004 and 2006, according to a report from the MyVote1 National Election Hotline Project, a diverse bipartisan coalition that includes Penn’s Fels Institute of Government. Read more...
With $2.3M grant, profs take aim at lung cancer
A new study headed up by Penn researchers aims to find the genetic reasoning for why some people develop lung cancer and others don’t. Read more...
Student Spotlight: Crystal Lucas
This past summer, Lucas travelled to Hancock County, Mississippi—the site of some of the most devastating damage from Hurricane Katrina—to tend to the mental and emotional health of residents recovering from the storm and flood. Read more...
Students tackle Curating 101
In the interdisciplinary 2007-2008 RBSL Bergman Foundation Curatorial Seminar, students take a year to learn about the art of curating. Read more...
Penn looks to the future with ‘Penn Connects’ plan
The redevelopment of the former Postal Lands properties will bring new life to the far eastern reaches of Penn’s campus, see the construction of a beautiful new office tower (some of which will be occupied by Penn staff) and, maybe most importantly, finally bridge the gap between Center City and University City—hence the project name, “Penn Connects.” Read more...
Abramson Cancer Center’s OncoLife will ‘empower’ patients
OncoLife, a new web-based service for adult cancer survivors developed and launched by staff of Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center, lets users create an individualized care plan based on the Institute of Medicine’s recommendations for cancer survivors. Read more...
Campus gets ‘PennAlert’
Penn’s newly launched emergency messaging system, PennAlert, is designed to alert the Penn community of 50,000 students, faculty and staff to any major emergency through simultaneous alerts via text messaging, voice mail and email to cell phones, landline phones, fax machines and PDAs. Read more...
New look, features for Web
The new academic year brings a much-improved home for the Penn on the web—the first redesign of the University’s homepage in five years. Read more...
Ask the vet: Dogs in winter
We bundle up in the cold months, protect our skin with moisturizer and tend to pack on a few extra pounds—but what about our canine companions? Read more...
