Campus & Community

In a calendar year, the average member of the Penn community consumes 15,724 kilowatt-hours of energy. That’s enough power to fully charge an iPhone 6 for 4,138 years, or watch TV for 18 consecutive years.

King Midas, with his magic hands of gold, was a popular figure in Greek mythology, but stories about his real life show his influence as the ruler of the Phrygian kingdom more than 3,000 years ago in the area now known as Turkey.

Researchers are constantly looking for new and better ways of storing the 0’s and 1’s of computer memory. One idea has been to represent bits as different atomic structures in a material.

Susan Wharton, a wealthy philanthropist from the family that gave the Wharton School its name, set in motion the chain of events that brought historian and sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois to Penn.

The use of drones has had significant consequences for how governments conduct counter-terrorism operations.

A partnership between the Department of Music in the School of Arts & Sciences and Opera Philadelphia gives Penn students a chance to get an insider’s view and explore the work of a professional performance company.

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In its 17th year, the Models of Excellence Program the University of Pennsylvania will honor 77 outstanding staff members who play key roles in Penn’s successes every day. President Amy Gutmann will present honorees from across 13 schools and centers with awards for their exemplary service on April 21, 2016 in Irvine Auditorium.

The 2016 U.S. presidential race has spurred spirited debate among candidates and the public over hot button election issues.

Men and women are subject to different vulnerabilities when it comes to health and disease. More men than women are diagnosed with autism, for example, while women tend to experience different heart attack symptoms from men.