Campus & Community

Bruce Friedman’s oldest son, Josh, had a profound impact on anyone he met. “He had a great sense of humor,” says Friedman. “Everybody just loved him.”

This spring, the BioEYES program celebrates a major milestone: It will serve its 100,000th student.That means in the 14 years since BioEYES began, 100,000 elementary, middle, and high school students from Philadelphia and four other sites have been exposed to innovative, hands-on lessons that get them excited about and interested in science.

Just a few weeks into the spring semester, junior English major and creative writing minor Elizabeth Richardson was given an ambitious task: Plan and lead a specific social media campaign for SafeKidsStories, a web initiative created by Lorene Cary, a senior lecturer in the

The lead-up to U.S. presidential elections can be drawn out and jargon-filled, challenging voters to distinguish between what politicians say and what they actually mean.

Seniors Vaishak Kumar, Melanie Mariano and Kriya Patel have been named recipients of the 2016 President’s Engagement Prizes at the University of Pennsylvania. The announcement was made today by Penn President Amy Gutmann.

There’s no doubt about it. Philadelphia weather is getting hotter and wetter each year influencing public concern about climate change.

Michael Rose works every day to make sure all productions offered at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts are meaningful.

Mitchell Orenstein walks along an interdisciplinary line between political science and Slavic studies at the University of Pennsylvania. 

The Penn Libraries’ Kislak Center for Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts has won an Association of College and Research Libraries award for its catalog for the 2015 exhibition “The Images Affair: Dreyfus in the M