Sandy Smith

If, some years from now, you no longer feel you are taking your life in your hands when you cross a busy intersection or ride your bike in Philadelphia, you may well have three Penn undergraduates to thank.

 Get ready for the first sports craze of the 21st century: robot soccer.It's already sweeping robotics laboratories all over the world, and it's only a matter of time before it comes to an arena near you.

Penn Police Officer Nickol Taylor is the first of what she and police officials hope is a long blue line of SpectaGuard patrol people who decide to get serious about fighting crime.

Things are looking up in University City, Managing Director of Community Housing Diane-Louise Wormley said as she reflected on the swirl of publicity over Penn's new housing programs.

For 16 Penn undergraduate students, the much-discussed gulf between blacks and Jews narrowed to a bridgeable stream this year, thanks to a new program, "Alliance and Understanding," developed by Afi Roberson, staff assistant at the African American Resource Center.

Two recently-appointed University of Pennsylvania Health System administrators are looking for others to join their fight against multiple sclerosis through bike riding.

Amare Solomon's Dahlak restaurant offers patrons the opportunity to enjoy authentic Ethiopian food in traditional Ethiopian style, from a common platter placed in a covered table. Photo by Dwight Luckey

A famous television ad from the late 1960s showed Abraham Lincoln being rejected for a job because he lacked a college diploma. Gayle Collins (ASC'98) can relate.

Is there a case to be made for continued government support for the arts and humanities? Yes, according to noted author-scholar-critic Garry Wills. But it's not the case most supporters of government arts funding make.

Each year for her vacation, Karen Miller, a staff dentist at Penn's Dental Care Center, heads down to tropical Brazil for two weeks. Instead of soaking up rays on the beaches of Rio, though, she provides dental care for orphans and the poor in the northeastern coastal city of Fortaleza.