Campus & Community

When Silvia Pierini Dunn was 25 years old, she moved from her native Rome to the United States. Italian was her first language, and although proficient in English, she was certainly met with a language barrier.

Cristina Bicchieri’s work is not for the faint of heart.

[vimeo]175598576[/vimeo]Growing up in Parsippany, N.J., Bianca Reo Charbonneau adored visiting the beach and imagined she would one day live there full-time. She remembers, however, her parents cautioning, “It’s better to know someone with a house down the shore than to have one yourself.”

New exhibition pays homage to late artist and professor with 10 artists from the University of Pennsylvania Community who were deeply impacted by his work and their relationship with him.

When University of Pennsylvania student Martine White heard that Philadelphia had won the bid to host the 2016 Democratic National Convention, she knew that she wanted to be a part of history. 

President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price are pleased to announce the appointment of Beth Simmons as the University of Pennsylvania’s eighteenth Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, effective July 1, 2016.

by Patrick Ammerman

Three military veterans who are enrolled as graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania, John Schippert, Jonathan Wood and Matthew Miclette, have been appointed as 2016 Tillman Scholars through the Pat Tillman Foundation.

Sharon Ravitch, a senior lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and a newly appointed Fulbright Scholar, is changing India’s educational systems through partnerships and research. 

Growing up in Hockessin, Del., Jessica McDowell, was a subscriber to the political science magazine Foreign Affairs for many years. This summer, the rising senior at the University of Pennsylvania is working as the publication’s editorial intern.