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6 Exhibitions for PennDesign’s Terry Adkins

6 Exhibitions for PennDesign’s Terry Adkins

As a teenager growing up in the 1960s, Terry Adkins, a fine arts professor in the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, was influenced by the major cultural, political and social events of the era -- and the music of Jimmy Hendrix.

Jeanne Leong

Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice Promotes Healthy Lifestyles With Community Teamworks Initiative

Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice Promotes Healthy Lifestyles With Community Teamworks Initiative

Health fairs serve a useful purpose, but the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania has figured out a way to make them even more useful to the community, all while allowing students, faculty, staff and alumni to participate in team-building activities.
Penn Navy ROTC Battalion Celebrates Pass in Review – and 72 Years on Campus

Penn Navy ROTC Battalion Celebrates Pass in Review – and 72 Years on Campus

There was a time, decades ago, when military Reserve Officer Training Corps programs were not welcome at some colleges and universities.  While some institutions of higher education are now reinstating their ROTC programs, the University of Pennsylvania never booted its Naval ROTC
A Penn Professor Chronicles the Technicolor Trucks of Pakistan

A Penn Professor Chronicles the Technicolor Trucks of Pakistan

The history of decorated trucks in Pakistan is long and colorful. In a land of more than 175 million people, nearly all goods are delivered by truck, and just about every truck has an array of ornate adornments and brightly painted images of religious scenes, families, movie stars and political sayings.

Jacquie Posey

Penn Welcomes Middle Schoolers for College Day 2012

Penn Welcomes Middle Schoolers for College Day 2012

More than 100 middle schoolers have already gotten their acceptance letters to Penn.  At least for one day. On Friday, April 20, 102 seventh- and eighth graders from Shaw Middle, Leslie P. Hill and Lea Elementary schools will become honorary college students at Penn during College Day 2012.
Texas Higher Education Must Confront Hard Choices, Penn GSE Study Finds

Texas Higher Education Must Confront Hard Choices, Penn GSE Study Finds

PHILADELPHIA — Texas will be forced to put the state’s economic growth at stake by closing the doors to college opportunity for thousands of young people, many of them Latino, unless leaders prioritize their goals for higher education and develop a plan to pay for them, according to a new report released by researchers at the University o

Jon Wallace

Penn to Offer Online Classes via Coursera

Penn to Offer Online Classes via Coursera

PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania will join Princeton University, the University of Michigan, the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University in partnering with Coursera, an online education platform, to make Web-based courses available free and to improve teaching on campuses. 

Evan Lerner

Penn to Host Access to USC Shoah Foundation Institute Archive; Nearly 52,000 Holocaust Testimonies on Video

Penn to Host Access to USC Shoah Foundation Institute Archive; Nearly 52,000 Holocaust Testimonies on Video

WHAT:       The launch of the University of Pennsylvania’s access to the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s entire Visual History Archive that contains nearly 52,000 video testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust from 56 countries and in 32 languages.

Julie McWilliams