The University of Pennsylvania will host Maria Bamford, Nathaniel Mackey and Lydia Davis as Kelly Writers House fellows during the spring 2017 semester. 

Blending interdisciplinary work with community engagement, two professors from the University of Pennsylvania are working with grade school teachers to address misconceptions and fears about Islam, as well as issues impacting students from Muslim communities. 

The University of Pennsylvania’s María F. Paredes Fernández has been named 2016 Teacher of the Year at the University Level by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. 

As higher education institutions wrestle with the future of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, the University of Pennsylvania will host the third annual conference focused on online learning, Oct. 6-7. 

Through a University of Pennsylvania internship, rising senior Sarah Eisler honed her skills and learned more about the children’s book publishing industry.  Eisler spent eight weeks as an intern at Downtown Bookworks in New York City.

  Junior Jackie Askins remembers the important role of New Student Orientation activities in helping her acclimate to life at the University of Pennsylvania.

Undergraduate students at the University of Pennsylvania are becoming diplomats-in-training who develop innovative policy through a non-partisan organization, the Penn Diplomacy and Policy Council. 

Caitlin Doolittle was looking to participate in a new experience this summer. She found it, and it involved decades-old lamp posts. 

Art historian Julie Nelson Davis of the University of Pennsylvania feels lucky to be affiliated with two projects at the Smithsonian’s Freer|Sackler Galleries in Washington, D.C.