WHAT: The 3,050-mile Bucknell-Penn Alumni Bike Race Across America for Scholarship, the first such effort by a group of University of Pennsylvania and Bucknell University alumni to raise $1 million in scholarship funds for each school to support outstanding students from low-income backgrounds

The race, which also honors the memory of Ed Zolla, a 1968 graduate of Penn's Wharton School who had planned to make this ride, began Sept. 9 in Santa Monica, Calif., and ends for the Penn riders on Thursday, Sept. 27, with a grand entrance onto the Penn campus.

WHEN: 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 27

WHERE: A celebration is planned at Sweeten Alumni House, 3533 Locust Walk.  

WHO: Members of the Penn team are Mike Shockro and '64 graduates Bruce Lederman and Ted Lansky.  

DETAILS: The cyclists have been riding 12 hours and about 163 miles a day on a coast-to-coast itinerary that took them up 103,000 feet of elevation during the course of the ride, considered one of world's toughest cycling routes.

Daily reports on the riders' progress along with rider blogs, pictures and video are available at www.alumnibikerace.com, which also provides information about donating to the scholarships.    

Additional information is available by contacting Fanny Chu-Fong at 215-898-2028 or fannycf@upenn.edu.