Campus & Community

Religion, rhetoric and the 2012 presidential election

Who says religion and politics don’t mix? Religion scholar Anthea Butler thinks they do, now more so than ever. The 2012 presidential contest, she says, “could be the most religiously based presidential race in recent memory.”

Jacquie Posey

PennDesign student goes postal to chronicle American life

Due to billions of dollars in losses, the federal government is threatening to close nearly 3,000 post offices across the country, but post office enthusiasts like School of Design graduate student Evan Kalish are doing what they can to try to keep them open, or at least chronicle their impact on American life.

Jeanne Leong

Football hero

A new statue at Franklin Field will honor Penn alum and NFL Hall-of-Famer Chuck Bednarik. Known as “Concrete Charlie,” Bednarik played for the Quakers from 1945 to 1948, and then for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1949 to 1962.

A bus minus a whale equals a new look at math

  What first-hand knowledge do West Philadelphia middle school students have about whales? Probably not much, considering the scarcity of whales in the area. New Jersey’s Adventure Aquarium doesn’t have any on display, nor does Baltimore’s National Aquarium. (Although there was that time a beluga whale made its way up the Delaware River.)

Greg Johnson

For the Record: The Kiosk Quick Lunch

Food trucks on and around campus serve thousands of hungry people everyday, providing quick, tasty and inexpensive sustenance for time-crunched students, faculty and staff.

Jeanne Leong

Season of giving

For the holiday season, Penn Volunteers in Public Service is sponsoring a University-wide gift/toy drive and is also encouraging departments to “adopt” a deserving family in lieu of holding office gift exchanges.



In the News


Philadelphia Inquirer

Scholars at risk in their own countries find a new home at Penn

Penn Global’s Scholars-at-Risk program is featured. Global’s Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Scott Moore, Penn Carey Law’s Eric Feldman, and Wharton’s Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, along with former and current scholars Angel Alvarado, Pavel Golubev, and Jawad Moradi are interviewed.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Penn will remain SAT optional for the next admission cycle

Penn will remain standardized test optional for the 2024-25 admissions cycle, with remarks from Dean of Admissions Whitney Soule.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

A burial for 19 Black Philadelphians, 200 years in the making

Penn Museum Director Christopher Woods says that the interment of 19 Black Philadelphians at Eden Cemetery represents a reckoning with the Museum’s colonial past and an act of reconciliation with the local community.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Here’s what these youth advocates have to say about Philly’s truancy problem, and how they would fix it

The Netter Center for Community Partnerships has more than 30 years of investment in connecting resources that address truancy, such as establishing after-school programming.

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6ABC.com

Chinatown residents brainstorm different ideas for Fashion District instead of proposed 76ers arena

Rashida Ng of the Weitzman School of Design and colleagues attended the Save Chinatown Coalition to propose different ideas besides the 76ers arena for Philadelphia’s Fashion District.

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