PHILADELPHIA - James A. Baker III, a co-chair of the Iraq Study Group who has served as secretary of state and secretary of the treasury, will deliver the address at the University of Pennsylvania's 251st Commencement on Monday, May 14.

PHILADELPHIA -- Andrew C. Porter, the Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Leadership Policy and Organization and Director of the Learning Sciences Institute at Vanderbilt University, has been named Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.  He will begin Aug. 1.

PHILADELPHIA -- How the immune system is switched on and off, or how it detects friend or foe, has baffled scientists for years.

PHILADELPHIA - Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found a link between parasites and skin secretions that contain urocanic acid.

PHILADELPHIA - A three-year, $800,000 grant to the University of Pennsylvania will enhance science learning in grades 4-8 in six Philadelphia schools.Science Projects Are Right for Kids, or SPARK!, from the National Science Foundation is designed to enrich science education for 100 elementary school students in four public and two charter schools in the city.

PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing officially launches a $60 million fund-raising campaign, "Where Science Leads," on Nov. 30 with a celebration marking the naming of the Nursing Building for Claire M. Fagin, dean emerita.

PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania has launched its Civic Scholars Program, a new four-year program that allows a select number of undergraduate students to incorporate their academic interests with research and service to the community.

PHILADELPHIA  This week, the University of Pennsylvania celebrates 120 years of Nursing at Penn.

PHILADELPHIA - John McPhee, Jamaica Kincaid, and Donald Hall have been named Kelly Writers House Fellows at the University of Pennsylvania for 2007.

PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice will launch a new doctoral-level education program in social work, which will offer the D.S.W. to students alongside the Ph.D. degree.