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When Grey Gordon steps onto Franklin Field for Commencement on Monday, May 14, he will become one of more than a half dozen family members, stretched over four generations, who have graduated from Penn.

Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, step right up for the 28th Annual Philadelphia International Children’s Festival, a three-day extravaganza filled with theater, music, and dance. 

As a teenager growing up in the 1960s, Terry Adkins, a fine arts professor in the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, was influenced by the major cultural, political and social events of the era -- and the music of Jimmy Hendrix.

  Some University of Pennsylvania students who are business majors are learning about ways businesses can work to help society.

 With help from some University of Pennsylvania Law School students, Philadelphia food vendors are now organized formally as an association, bringing together vendors from across the city to support each other and to share resources.

Explaining to your inquisitive child what you do for a living can be an elaborate back-and-forth, often leading to hard-to-explain details. But at Penn’s annual “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day,” Thursday, April 26, those details can become part of a day of fun.

Most images of Benjamin Franklin the printer, the scholar, the scientist, and the diplomat depict him in the later years of his life. But Penn is home to a rare likeness of Franklin when he was about the age of a typical college freshman.

PHILADELPHIA --  The University of Pennsylvania Libraries is co-hosting a series of events addressing a wide range of food-policy issues in the United States and around the world.

Educational innovator and advocate Geoffrey Canada, president and chief executive officer for Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), will be the Commencement speaker at Penn’s 256th Commencement on Monday, May 14, at Franklin Field.