PHILADELPHIA -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recognized the University of Pennsylvania's Division of Facilities and Real Estate Services for participation in its Energy Star program's Million Monitor Drive. This national campaign is designed to activate monitor-power management on 1 million computers across the nation.  

PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania is one of two institutions of higher education selected to receive the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Award for 2003.

PHILADELPHIA -- Families are more likely to be driven into homeless shelters by increased unemployment and by hikes in rental-housing costs than by welfare reform or by the occurrence of substance abuse or disabilities in heads of households.

PHILADELPHIA  Under a new 10-year agreement, the University of Pennsylvania will now purchase 10 percent of its energy needs from wind-generated power, in effect doubling its nation-leading wind-energy purchase to the output from 10 wind turbines.

WHAT: Earth Festival 2003, sponsored by the Penn Environmental Group, with the theme "Thinking about Alternative Energy" and highlighted by the announcement of Penn's latest commitment to using renewable wind energy.

WHAT: "Communiversity Day," a day-long campus visit designed to provide area youth from Sayre Middle School an opportunity to experience college life and see first hand the broad spectrum of activities at the University of Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA -- A $1 million gift from 1970 Wharton graduate Jeffrey Weingarten and his wife Susan to the University of Pennsylvania will enable Penn to build on its services to students with additional needs.

PHILADELPHIA – The International Cultural Festival will celebrate the diversity that is University City from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 5, on 40th Street between Walnut and Locust. Visitors can take a gastronomical world tour at the food booths, shop the unique wares artists and crafters will display, and enjoy free musical and dance performances on an outdoor stage.

PHILADELPHIA – Marjorie K. Jeffcoat, DMD, award-winning dental researcher, professor and administrator at the University of Alabama School of Dentistry, has been named dean of the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Penn President Judith Rodin announced. She will assume her new position this summer.

PHILADELPHIA – Adorned on the outside with children's smiling faces, the PENNSmiles van is designed on the inside to bring dental-care services to schoolchildren whose smiles might not be so healthy.