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Get your workplace certified as a green office

Get your workplace certified as a green office

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.

Julie McWilliams

Summer campus construction moving forward

Summer campus construction moving forward

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.

Julie McWilliams

Penn Students Help Native American High Schoolers Learn College-admission Process

Penn Students Help Native American High Schoolers Learn College-admission Process

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.

Julie McWilliams

Team of Penn Environmental Studies Master’s Students to Present at U.N.’s Rio+20 Conference June 15

Team of Penn Environmental Studies Master’s Students to Present at U.N.’s Rio+20 Conference June 15

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.

Julie McWilliams

PennMOVES Sale Will Be Held Saturday, June 2

PennMOVES Sale Will Be Held Saturday, June 2

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. 

Julie McWilliams

Penn extends tax offset to same-sex couples

Penn extends tax offset to same-sex couples

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.  

Julie McWilliams

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