Maria Zankey

Penn faculty and staff who want to stay on top of their health and be rewarded for their efforts still have time to participate in the University’s second annual “Be in the Know” campaign.

PAYING IT FORWARD: Dafan Zhang, a says people often tell him that he’s lucky. Just years ago, he had been homeless, living in 30th Street Station, and working odd jobs.

Career-minded, animal-loving teens will once again have a chance to bolster their resumes and gain hands-on puppy experience through the Penn Vet Working Dog Center (WDC) Canine Handler Academy.

As Daniel Drake makes his way through the halls of the Living Independently For Elders (LIFE) program headquarters, almost every person he passes shakes his hand, nods “hello,” greets him by name.

Until the early 1970s, women were seldom represented in academic departments, fields, or research, says Demie Kurz, co-director of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) Program and co-director of the program’s sister center, the

On Feb. 9, 1964, more than 73 million viewers tuned in to “The Ed Sullivan Show” and watched a performance by a then-unheard of pop music group from Liverpool, England, called The Beatles. The group’s mesmerizing performance marked the arrival of Beatlemania in North America, triggering countless musical and cultural trends over the band’s seven-year run.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced that a group of Penn researchers is one of five teams to be awarded funds to study green infrastructure practices in urban areas.

Patrons of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center can catch a glimpse of one of the most rare books and nuanced depictions of scientific documentation in the world.

In 1989, an international group of scientists had discovered the cystic fibrosis gene, a breakthrough that marked not only an incredible milestone in the study of reproductive genetics, but catapulted the field into an era of rapid growth.

Penn researchers may have found a technique that allows people to indulge in their guilty pleasures while helping them accomplish their otherwise daunting goals.