Julie McWilliams

If Penn’s Green Office Certification Program was the Olympics, achieving Level 4 accreditation would be equivalent to winning a gold medal.

Did you resolve to be more sustainable in the new year? Here’s your chance. Penn staff who work in campus laboratories now have an opportunity to help the University go greener.

If 2012 University of Pennsylvania grad Mathew Bernstein does his job right, he thinks his position could be eliminated.

Guobin Yang has an unquenchable interest in the effect of digital media on society and social movements.  China, Yang’s homeland, has been quick to pull the censorship trigger on media of all sorts that report events the government construes as unfavorable.

When it became apparent that Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall’s iconic trellis along Locust Walk needed replacing, the hunt began to find a hard wood that would stand up to local temperature extremes and the punishment of wisteria vines. Ipe wood (pronounced ee-pay) salvaged from the reconstruction of the Coney Island boardwalk—pre-Hurricane Sandy—fit the bill.

A cloud has parked itself over Penn, and it’s a good thing. As of now, every member of the University community has access to Penn+Box, a cloud-based file sharing and storage service provided by the Office of Information Systems and Computing (ISC).

WHO: John Legend, University of Pennsylvania alumnus and nine-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist. Legend has drawn attention to global poverty and education.  He’s performed numerous benefit concerts and launched the Show Me Campaign, a non-profit organization fighting poverty.

During Penn’s 2012 Power Down Challenge, held Oct. 31 through Nov. 18, the University community saved enough energy to power 162 average homes in the region for the 19 days of the contest.

Two senior undergraduate scholarship recipients at the University of Pennsylvania shared their personal collegiate journeys as they and more than 250 other scholarship beneficiaries met with their benefactors and guests at the Fall 2012 Scholarship Celebration this month.  It was an evening of making acquaintances, renewing friendships and cementing bonds.

The University has published a new photo essay book, “People, Places, Passions, Pursuits, A Penn Portrait,” just in time for holiday gift giving.