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Mobile websites emerge across the University

Poetry reborn

Penn has brought Jacket, one of the world’s earliest and most respected online poetry and poetics magazines, back to life as Jacket2. Originally created by Australian poet John Tranter in 1997, Jacket served as a global platform for interviews with noted poets, book reviews, feature stories and a wide spectrum of poems. In 2009, Tranter announced that he planned to retire, leaving the future of Jacket uncertain. Penn’s Kelly Writers House and Penn Sound stepped in to save the magazine’s archives and relaunch the publication as Jacket2.

Staff Q&A with Eric Baratta

Eric Baratta’s first theatrical role, back in his high school days, was in Shakespeare’s classic play, “Macbeth.” Not a bad first experience on the stage. But Baratta didn’t play the Scottish king. His debut was much more modest.

Penn’s UPStart program celebrates a year of innovation

To Michael Cleare, executive director of Penn’s Center for Technology Transfer (CTT), it’s not enough that the University is a hotbed of scientific research. If all that knowledge is to be truly meaningful, it must make its way off campus.

The rapid rise of service learning

In the 1991-92 school year, three Penn faculty members taught 100 students in four Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) courses, classes that involve hands-on, real-world problem solving. By 2000-01, there were 38 courses taught by 34 faculty to 925 students. Data from the 2009-10 school year shows 1,575 students enrolled in 61 ABCS courses taught by 48 Penn faculty members.

Q&A with David L. Cohen

Through the years, Philadelphians have used a number of different adjectives and phrases to describe one of the city’s most high-profile and powerful adopted sons, David L. Cohen, including “level-headed,” “straight-forward,” “structured,” “disciplined,” the “calm in the eye of the storm,” a “stickler for details,” “savvy,” “tough” and a “methodical orchestrator.” But encountering him in person brings a different word to mind—unassuming. (Even his office inside the sleek Comcast high rise is unpretentious.) 

Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs Bestows 2011 Wharton Venture Award to Support Entrepreneurial Students

Wharton Awards $40,000 to Student Startups to Pursue Ventures Over Traditional Summertime Positions

Learning about ethics of design through 'the dark side'

This weekend, two Penn professors will present “Unethical Machines,” a gallery show of student projects that combine art, technology and "bad behavior" aimed at exploring the ethics of surveillance, privacy and the sanctity of personal information.

Penn Home Ownership Services helps employees settle in West Philly

Penn employees looking to buy a home in West Philadelphia can get help and advice through Penn's Home Ownership Services (PHOS).

Penn’s Kenneth Goldsmith to Be Part of ‘An Evening of Poetry’ at the White House

PHILADELPHIA – Kenneth Goldsmith, a faculty member with the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, who is affiliated with Penn’s Kelly Writers house, is among those invited to read at “An Evening of Poetry” at the White House on May 11.