Lauren Hertzler

Back again for the fourth year is the Office of Sustainability’s 30x30 Challenge, encouraging all Penn students, faculty, and staff to spend at least 30 minutes outside for all 30 days in April.

It’s Monday night before Philadelphia’s biggest snowstorm of the season, and dozens of Penn students are flooding into a West Philadelphia church basement. In the fellowship hall, amongst a piano, tiny stage, and kitchen, students eagerly set up tables, chairs, and portable carrels, sift through paperwork, and lay out medical supplies.

Gail Gilbert Ball, a 1979 Wharton School alumna, spends 80 percent of any given day working to raise capital for Chestnut Street Ventures, an investment fund solely for Penn grads, by Penn grads.

Back again for the 18th year is the Division of Human Resources’ (HR) Models of Excellence Program, recognizing Penn staff members who strive—far beyond their expected duties—to boost the University’s successes.

Just as Ancil George was set to retire in 2014 from his job at Penn Libraries, he was lured back in with a thrilling opportunity: to become Penn’s first community outreach librarian.

David Pottruck wore many hats as an undergraduate student at Penn. He studied psychology, starred on the football team, and also shined as a wrestler. His senior year, Pottruck was captain of the wrestling team, giving him his first real taste of leadership—a tipping point for his storied career in business.

This summer, Kelly Writers House will host its first intensive writing workshop for high school juniors and seniors.

This year, taxes are due by Tuesday, April 18—a little later than in the past.It’s a welcomed delay for Victor Adams, who says, laughing, “I ironically always end up doing mine in April.”

He was brave and intelligent, loyal and true, affectionate and proud. He devoted his sole and only treasure and inheritance to the University of Pennsylvania—his whole life.”These are the words read aloud at the close of Albert Monroe Wilson’s funeral in 1904. Wilson, a native of Philadelphia, worked at the College of the University of Pennsylvania for 50 years.