Campus & Community

In collaboration with Penn Human Resources, Penn Admissions will host workshops on Tuesday, June 7, for Penn faculty and staff families with high school-aged students to help answer questions about the college search process.

Penn President Amy Gutmann recently announced winners of the 2016 President’s Engagement Prizes and the inaugural President’s Innovation Prizes.

Samara Gray, greenhouse coordinator at the Carolyn Lynch Laboratory greenhouse, cares for flowers and plants.

 Walter “Wally” Masters’ athletic talents on the Quakers baseball and football teams garnered attention on and off campus, leading him to play both sports professionally.  An All-American pitcher for Penn, Masters (front row, third from right) left the University in 1931 to play for Major League Baseball’s Washington Senators.

 In the introductory anthropology class, “Food and Fire,” students’ coursework follows what is essentially the story of human evolution as told through tools of technology. These tools—made from stone, pottery, textiles, and metal—were used by humans’ earliest ancestors to pound, cut, burn, and co

Receiving a package from Amazon.com just got easier with a new pick-up location on Penn’s campus.

For three weeks every summer, a group of advanced high school students from around the world come to Penn’s campus to study.

Stem cells hold promise for regenerative medicine because they can turn into any type of tissue, but the need to harvest them from human embryos has stymied research in this field. One way around this issue is to turn back the clock on differentiated cells, reverting them to a stage before they grew into a specific type.

Lucious Lyon, from the popular FOX TV show “Empire,” is often associated with gun violence, alcohol abuse, and unsafe sex. The music mogul’s conduct has something in common with many teenagers: Their risky behaviors tend to happen in clusters.

Graduation festivities kick off this week at Penn, with school ceremonies beginning as early as Thursday, May 12, and are capped off by the University’s 260th Commencement on Monday, May 16, at Franklin Field, which is