Campus & Community

For a month last summer, Anemona Hartocollis, a reporter for The New York Times, followed refugee families from Syria through northern Greece, across Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary, Austria, Germany, and Denmark. They walked, took buses, and caught trains.

Though Florian Schwarz is a linguist, he pays a lot of attention to the twinkle in his research subjects’ eyes. That “twinkle” is the corneal reflection, or the spot where light reflects in the eye. The way it interacts with the pupil can teach scientists about the thought processes of the decision-makers they’re studying.

While the primary focus of the Penn Vet Working Dog Center (WDC) is to train dogs that spend their lives serving individuals and the nation, and to pursue research to improve that service, insights and knowledge developed at the Center can also benefit pet dogs and their owners.

The Singh Center for Nanotechnology held its first Entrepreneurship and Innovation Open House last week, bringing together Penn faculty, staff, and students with users of the facility from local business and industry.

Two grants, totaling nearly $2 million, have been awarded to University of Pennsylvania professors Dennis Culhane and John Fantuzzo, enabling the continued development and expanded use of Integrated Data Systems, or IDS, for evidence-based policymaking through the Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy, or AISP, initiative.

Expressions of unrequited desire quoted in romantic comedies and in poems of everlasting devotion read at weddings have their roots in centuries-old texts. Melissa E. Sanchez says a careful look at the language and history of 16th- and 17th-century poetry provides insights on issues of gender, sexuality and romance both past and modern-day.

When the massive sphinx arrived at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia in 1913, it was eclipsed by another historic event in the city – opening day of baseball’s World Series with the Philadelphia Athletics hosting the New York Giants. 

The scope of political activity among student groups at the University of Pennsylvania features a wide-spectrum of interests that includes but goes far beyond the 2016 presidential election.

The University of Pennsylvania has named Elaine Papas Varas as the University director of financial aid. Her appointment will be effective March 28, 2016, and is the result of a nationwide search. The announcement was made today by Michelle H.

The University of Pennsylvania has earned the WorldatWork Work-Life Seal of Distinction for 2016.