Lauren Hertzler

MUSIC BUSINESS: Kayvon Asemani has been interested in music, particularly hip hop, since he was 5 years old. It was at his elementary school near Baltimore when he first rapped in front of his class for show-and-tell.

 As talk looms around the United States about prematurely closing and decommissioning nuclear power plants, so do the potential public policy problems associated with the process.  A recent Kleinman Center for Energy Policy report details some of these issues, specifically regarding the radioactive

 When Sarah and Ross Gray’s twin son Thomas died in 2010 from anencephaly when he was only 6 days old, they donated his organs, eyes, tissue, and blood to research.  “We just thought, this doesn’t have to be unproductive,” Sarah Gray says.

Penn Family Day celebrates the contributions of our staff and faculty, alongside their families.

From 2008 to 2011, Pennsylvania enacted Act 61, an adequacy-based reform that attempted to align per pupil spending for students across the state’s 500 public school districts. It provided additional state aid to districts spending below state-determined adequacy targets.

Fresh faces aren’t the only new delights on Penn’s campus this fall. A handful of eateries and shops have opened, and are making a mark in their University City home.

For six weeks during her summer vacation, Henry C. Lea School’s Latoya Landfair spent hours each day in Penn’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory. Studying alongside nine other School District of Philadelphia middle school teachers, Landfair was able to learn about computer vision—a field she plans to introduce to her seventh-grade math students this year.

Kam Hypolite says moving to Philadelphia from his native Houston was a “big change.” But as one of the first 350 residents to live in Penn’s New College House, the freshman says he’s been able to adjust quickly. “Everyone here makes me feel like I’m at home,” he says. “It’s been such a welcoming experience.”

With its modern, minimalist style, the new Perry World House boasts a physical openness that mirrors its agenda: to be a place for candid discussion.