Jill DiSanto

Caitlin Doolittle was looking to participate in a new experience this summer. She found it, and it involved decades-old lamp posts. 

As the United States heads full throttle into the presidential campaign, experts gathered yesterday at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House, a research center that aims to advance interdisciplinary, policy-relevant approaches on the world’s most urgent global affairs challenges,

“Philadelphia is a good city in which to write American history,” Franklin D. Roosevelt said as he accepted the Democratic Party’s presidential re-nomination at Franklin Field 80 years ago.

When University of Pennsylvania student Martine White heard that Philadelphia had won the bid to host the 2016 Democratic National Convention, she knew that she wanted to be a part of history. 

Three military veterans who are enrolled as graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania, John Schippert, Jonathan Wood and Matthew Miclette, have been appointed as 2016 Tillman Scholars through the Pat Tillman Foundation.

Sharon Ravitch, a senior lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and a newly appointed Fulbright Scholar, is changing India’s educational systems through partnerships and research. 

Growing up in Hockessin, Del., Jessica McDowell, was a subscriber to the political science magazine Foreign Affairs for many years. This summer, the rising senior at the University of Pennsylvania is working as the publication’s editorial intern.

“Life’s not fair” applies to some people more than others, according to Jeffrey Green, an associate professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. 

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As it has done for 25 years, Penn Volunteers in Public Service has provided as much as $1,000 in non-tuition scholarships to college-bound students from West Philadelphia high schools who were chosen based on community service and academic excellence.