Julie McWilliams

With bulldozers and heavy machinery at work, Penn’s main walkway is undergoing a $5.4 million renovation this summer.

  PHILADELPHIA –- In a new set of collegiate rankings, the first by Newsweek-Kaplan, the University of Pennsylvania was named most diverse and gay-friendliest. Penn was ranked among the top 25 schools nationally on five other Newsweek-Kaplan lists.

PHILADELPHIA – IDG's Computerworld announces the University of Pennsylvania’s Information Systems & Computing organization as a 2011 Best Places to Work in IT honoree, one of 100 top organizations that challenge their IT staffs while providing great benefits and compensation.

PHILADELPHIA -– With the School Reform Commission’s approval, the partnership agreement that supports the successful and innovative pre-K-8 Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander University of Pennsylvania Partnership School in West Philadelphia has been extended for

National Bike to Work Day gets underway on Friday, May 20, and Joy Cannon, a researcher at Penn’s Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine, is inviting fellow bicyclists to sign up for this year’s Commuter Challenge.

 PHILADELPHIA -– The University of Pennsylvania is among 114 colleges and universities named to the 2010 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with distinction by the Corporation for National and Community Service.  Penn was cited for its outreach to the West Philadelphia community.

Penn employees looking to buy a home in West Philadelphia can get help and advice through Penn's Home Ownership Services (PHOS).