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Penn Students Spend A Summer With Owl Monkeys — and Learn More Than Primatology

    • Penn Students Spend A Summer With Owl Monkeys — and Learn More Than Primatology

    It’s almost as far away from Philadelphia urban life as one can imagine. Or, to be precise, it’s a 14-hour plane ride followed by a 16-hour bus ride capped by a 40-minute ride in a truck away from the University of Pennsylvania campus.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Treasure hunt

    • Treasure hunt

    The Women’s Committee of the Penn Museum is bringing back its signature fundraiser, “TREASURES,” from Oct. 26-28. Tickets are $15 for the show or $25 for the show and admission to Museum exhibition “MAYA 2012: Lords of Time” (both tickets also include regular Museum admission).

    On the margins

    • On the margins

    In conjunction with the 2012-13 Penn Humanities Forum on Peripheries, the Penn Museum is presenting Culture Films, a documentary series with a th

    WXPN presents new strains of classic blues

    • WXPN presents new strains of classic blues

    The Mississippi blues have landed in Philly. The Mississippi Blues Project (MBP) is bringing musicians to town to showcase the breadth and depth of a music style that has received relatively limited exposure in this region.
    Penn Hosts First Ivy Plus STEM Symposium

    • Penn Hosts First Ivy Plus STEM Symposium

    This weekend, Penn hosted the first Ivy Plus Symposium and workshops for diverse scholars, a national conference designed to encourage exceptional undergraduate students to pursue advanced training in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, fields. 
    Penn Students Teach and Learn in Central America

    • Penn Students Teach and Learn in Central America

    Randall Tassone and Jean Lim have returned to campus after spending the summer enriching their lives as well as the lives of people in Nicaragua.

    Jeanne Leong