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Campus & Community
DPS offers free lockout and jumpstart services
Imagine getting in your car after a hard day’s night, putting your keys in the ignition and getting...nothing. Your car will not start. The lights won’t turn on. Nor will the power windows work. The battery is dead. Unless you have a friend in the area with jumper cables, you are probably out of luck.
Children’s Festival founder honored with Creative Spirit Award
In the 1980s, former Penn professor Catherine “Kaki” Marshall noticed a campaign in major Canadian cities to provide quality theater festivals for children. Impressed by their efforts, Marshall decided to mimic the campaign in the United States.
Art exhibit showcases lesser-known works
Penn has prominent works of art on display around campus, including Claes Oldenburg’s “Split Button” outside the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center and Robert Indiana’s “LOVE” sculpture on College Green. But the University also holds some lesser-known pieces in its 6,000-item art collection.
Penn Center for High Impact Philanthropy and Wharton Will Host ‘Saving Philanthropy’ Screening
PHILADELPHIA —The documentary “Saving Philanthropy” will be shown on Wednesday, Nov.
SP2 dean analyzes what ails government programs
Many government programs designed to address societal ills fall short of their goals in sector after sector, and Richard J. Gelles, dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice, says these programs are predestined to fail because they create self-serving and self-protecting bureaucracies that keep them in business.
Founder of Philadelphia International Children’s Festival Honored with Penn Creative Spirit Award
PHILADELPHIA – When former University of Pennsylvania professor Catherine “Kaki” Marshall saw the efforts major Canadian cities make each year to put on quality theater festivals for children, she decided that needed to happen here.
Penn honors philanthropist Raymond Perelman
Penn President Amy Gutmann presented the University of Pennsylvania Medal for Distinguished Achievement to prominent Philadelphia philanthropist Raymond Perelman at an evening ceremony on Wednesday, Oct.
Penn Again Tops Higher Education Division of EPA’s Green-Power Partners List
PHILADELPHIA –- With a green power usage of 200,194,600 kWh annually, the University of Pennsylvania has retained its top spot among institutions of higher learning on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s list of green-power purchasers.
Learn to power down at energy conservation fair
Penn is hoping the campus community will once again pitch in to save energy. Building on the success of past Power Down Challenges, the University’s Green Campus Partnership is expanding the program this year, and is offering a number of new energy-conservation initiatives.
In the News
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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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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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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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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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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