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Franklin Field played host to the Eagles’ last NFL title
Franklin Field played host to the Eagles’ last NFL title
In 1960, the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Green Bay Packers in the NFL Championship Game at Franklin Field.
The importance of free speech on college campuses
The importance of free speech on college campuses
Running Penn’s Committee on Open Expression has given Sigal Ben-Porath an up-close look at free speech on campus—and even inspired her to write a book on the topic.
Taking stock of Philly’s historic sacred places
The City of Philadelphia was created in 1682 as part of William Penn’s “Holy Experiment” where people of different religious faiths could worship freely and live in peace.
For the Record: The 7-time national champion Penn Quakers football team
For the Record: The 7-time national champion Penn Quakers football team
The Penn football team has won seven national championships, tied with Michigan and Oklahoma for seventh all-time.
Skills Initiative Gives Unemployed West Philadelphians Job Training
She fell in love with the trees. Born and raised in West Philadelphia, she would pass through Penn as a curious and attentive child. Traveling on SEPTA with her mother, she was fascinated by the University’s arboreal campus, unique and scenic architecture, and pacific quality of life.
Staff Q&A with Lisa Warshaw
Staff Q&A with Lisa Warshaw
Public speaking strikes fear in many. But for business leaders, communicating with the public is an unavoidable and essential part of the job.
Student Spotlight with Kassidi Jones
LOOKING FOR EXCELANO: Majoring in English and Africana studies, Kassidi Jones is a senior from Hartford, Conn. Since the second semester of her freshman year, she has been a member of the Excelano Project, Penn’s premier spoken word poetry group.
Q&A with Howard Stevenson
Q&A with Howard Stevenson
For some people, experiencing a racial encounter can be so stressful that it’s as if they are facing a tsunami or a venomous snake. The episodes can be as minute as an inadvertent microaggression, or as malignant as being pelted with rocks and called the N-word.
Skills initiative gives unemployed West Philadelphians job training
Skills initiative gives unemployed West Philadelphians job training
Founded in 2011, the University City District’s West Philadelphia Skills Initiative connects employers seeking talent to unemployed West Philadelphia residents looking for work.
Boosting Philadelphia for Amazon’s HQ2
Online commerce colossus Amazon revealed on Sept. 7 its planned HQ2, the company’s second headquarters, which will be built in North America. Amazon expects to invest more than $5 billion in the construction of HQ2 and create as many as 50,000 high-paying jobs, as well as tens of thousands of additional jobs and billions of dollars of investment in the surrounding community.