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Amy Gutmann/Q&A

Photo credit: Candace diCarlo Amy Gutmann, Penn president In January of 2004, a few months before Amy Gutmann became the University’s eighth president, she spoke publicly about what attracted her to Penn.

GRASP Lab Build Robotic Cars

The General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory integrates computer science, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering in a vibrant, collaborative environment that fosters interactions between students, research staff and faculty. GRASP has grown into a $10 million research center with impressive technological innovations. Pioneering GRASP researchers are building autonomous vehicles and robots, developing self-configuring humanoids, and making robot swarms a reality.

Hay's Anatomy

Foreclosures take an emotional toll

Millions of Americans have lost their homes, and neighborhoods and communities have suffered since the U.S. housing bubble began to burst in 2006.

History (in pictures) of the Holy Land

In the top image, Jews carry wheat in the Emek (Jezreel Valley) of British Mandate Palestine in 1936. The bottom photo shows the 1868 restoration of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Photo credit: Lenkin Family Collection, University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Staff Q&A/Doug Berger

Photo credit: Mark Stehle Doug Berger, executive director of the Business Services Division, is a man of many responsibilities around campus, including making sure the bills get paid and the lights stay on in Penn dorms.

Penn Launches Undergraduate Program in Market and Social Systems Engineering, Nation’s First

 PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania has launched a first-of-its-kind program that will prepare undergraduate students to shape the technologies that underpin Web search, keyword auctions, electronic commerce, social and financial networks and the novel and unanticipated markets and social systems of the years ahead.

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Awards 288 Projects, $155 Million to University of Pennsylvania Research

PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania has received more than $155 million in research funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, awards that fund 288 studies in gene therapy, robotics, public education, neurological disorders, tobacco’s effect on health and more.

Penn Institute for Urban Research Symposium Will Examine Role of Arts in Philadelphia

Penn study finds most Americans prefer online privacy

Contrary to what many marketers claim, most Americans, regardless of age, do not want online advertisements tailored to their specific interests, and object to the ways marketers follow their moves on the internet, according to a study of consumer privacy spearheaded by Joseph Turow, professor of communication at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication.