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A PENNY SAVED It was Benjamin Franklin who coined the phrase “a penny saved is a penny earned,” and these days we are all doing our part to help the University contain costs. In that spirit, the Current has started this new feature highlighting cost-cutting efforts being made across campus.

School of Social Policy & Practice

In the Caster Building at 3701 Locust Walk, the Penn School of Social Policy & Practice is one of the oldest social work programs in the world. For more than a century, the School has contributed to the advancement of more effective, efficient and humane human services through education, research and civic engagement.

Tough questions welcome at askBen

Navigating the complex world of financial aid, class registration and tuition payment can be a daunting task. How does Penn award financial aid? What do you do if a class you need is already full? And how can people pay their tuition bills anyway?

Student Spotlight / Joshua Bennett

 Photo credit: Mark Stehle AT LAST: At the tender age of 21, Joshua Bennett already is a nationally recognized spoken word artist who was recently awarded the United Kingdom’s Marshall Scholarship. He is the first African-American student at Penn to receive the honor.

Penn Biologists Explain How Organisms Can Tolerate Mutations, Yet Adapt and Survive Environmental Change

PHILADELPHIA –- Biologists at the University of Pennsylvania studying the processes of evolution appear to have resolved a longstanding conundrum: How can organisms be robust against the effects of mutations yet simultaneously adaptable when the environment changes?

Warburg Pincus Co-President Charles Kaye to Deliver "China and India: An Investor’s Perspective" Lecture at Penn

Penn Receives $20 Million for University Professorships; Weiss Gift Will Create Four PIK Positions

PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania has received a $20 million gift designated for faculty support from George A. Weiss, a Penn alum and trustee and chair of the Making History campaign, Penn President Amy Gutmann announced today.

American Institute of Architects Honors Penn’s Skirkanich Hall With Design Award

 PHILADELPHIA –- Skirkanich Hall, home to the Bioengineering Department in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received the 2010 Institute Honor Award for Architecture from the American Institute of Architects.

Penn receives $20 million gift from George A. Weiss

Spikes in News Coverage of HPV, Cervical Cancer Linked to Increased Knowledge, but Important Information Omitted

 PHILADELPHIA -– In the months surrounding the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the human papillomavirus vaccine, an increase in the volume of news coverage was associated with changes in the public’s knowledge about HPV and cervical cancer. However, a new study reveals that many news stories were missing important information, including the sexually transmitted nature of the disease.