Greg Johnson

It’s summertime and the living is easy, except when families are trying to find outdoor activities for children that are both fun and educational. 

Each year, Penn’s Commencement honors thousands of students and their families at Franklin Field in one of the University’s proudest and most elaborate celebrations.

The Office of the Ombudsman, housed in an annex to the Arthur Ross Gallery at 113 Duhring Wing, offers members of the Penn community a place to discuss, manage, and resolve conflicts and disagreements.

The story of how the Talmud—a body of Jewish law and a guide to Jewish life—evolved from a strictly oral tradition to a set of written scholarly works is one of preferences in composition, preservation of traditions, and cultural and geographic necessity.

Students, faculty, staff, and members of the community can pull an all-nighter on Saturday, March 31, and join the fight against cancer at the annual Penn Relay For Life at Franklin Field.

Fifty-seven Irish workers set sail for the United States in April of 1832 to work at Duffy’s Cut, a Pennsylvania Railroad construction site in Malvern, a town about 20 miles outside of Philadelphia. The workers arrived in Philadelphia in June. By the end of August, they were all dead.