Julie McWilliams

Many members of the Penn community are increasing their recycling rate, using less electricity, and running less water to step up their sustainable living at home. A new program from the Green Campus Partnership is encouraging employees to bring that same dedication to the workplace.

PHILADELPHIA  – Former President George W. Bush will visit Gaborone, Botswana, Thursday, July 5, to launch a program that will expand women’s health initiatives in that country.  

Penn does not have an off season. Although most students have left for the summer, the campus echoes with the rumblings of jackhammers, heavy-duty delivery trucks and machinery, and hard-hatted construction crews.

PHILADELPHIA -- Four University of Pennsylvania students with Native American roots are working with nearly 100 high school sophomores and juniors of Native American, Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian descent who are on campus this week to learn how to navigate the college-application process.

PHILADELPHIA -- Amy Sadao has been appointed the Daniel Dietrich II Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, effective Sept. 1. 

PHILADELPHIA  – Nearly 100 high-achieving high school sophomores and juniors, including 17 Native Hawaiians, will be on the University of Pennsylvania campus June 23-29 to take part in College Horizons 2012.

PHILADELPHIA -- Three first-year graduate students in the University of Pennsylvania’s Master’s of Environmental Studies program are in Rio de Janeiro today in advance of the Rio+20 conference, where they will make a presentation on the role of higher educational institutions in sustainable development.

PHILADELPHIA -- Visiting music meccas around the world is as close as that radio dial with the “Sense of Place” series on WXPN- FM’s “World Cafe.”

WHAT:          PennMOVES, now in its fifth year, is an effort to find a home for items University of Pennsylvania students leave behind at the end of the academic year. 

Many members of Penn's faculty and staff take advantage of the employee benefit of paying for health insurance premiums for themselves and their dependents with pre-tax dollars, resulting in a bit more take-home pay.