Greg Johnson

Penn is shooting for a shutout on Friday, Feb. 21, when the men’s basketball team battles Harvard at The Palestra.

Fourteen years after the United States outlawed slavery, the first African-American students enrolled at Penn.

The nearly two-year restoration of the Arts, Research, and Culture House (ARCH) has concluded, breathing new life into the historic, late-Gothic Revival structure in the heart of Penn’s campus at 36th Street and Locust Walk.

Robert Aronowitz, chair of the Department of History and Sociology of Science, entered the University of Michigan as an undergrad thinking he would be a physics major. But the Sixties intervened.

Child custody and support matters are among the most emotional, personal, and complex issues for parents, guardians, and caregivers, and can determine whether or not they can spend time with a child, put food on the table, and a roof over their head.

In 2007, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) submitted an Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress, a first-of-its-kind study providing baseline data on homelessness in America. The report marked the first time since 1984 that HUD had reported the number of homeless people in the United States.

WHAT: Supported in part by a $2 million grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Presidential Term Professorships at Penn were established in 2011 as a key feature of the University’s Action Plan for Faculty Diversity and Excellence, an initiative that will

NEW JERSEYAN: A freshman from Montclair, N.J., Jasmine Cole, 18, is a standout player on the Penn field hockey team.

GLOBAL LEARNING: Penn launched its Open Learning Initiative in July 2012, a vital part of the University’s mission to increase worldwide access to educational resources that can impact humanity.

Stanton Wortham’s grandmother was unhappy and wanted a simple answer. She was proud of her grandson and knew he was an accomplished scholar and professor—having graduated with highest honors from Swarthmore College and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago—but she still wasn’t quite sure what in the world he did.