Campus & Community

With Winter Break almost upon us, out-of-town family and friends beckon. To keep belongings safe and reduce the threat of home burglary while members of the Penn community are away, the Division of Public Safety (DPS) is again offering special property checks.

A mother’s breast milk contains nutrients and immunological benefits important for every newborn, a fact recently confirmed by the U.S. surgeon general and the World Health Organization. For very low birth weight (VLBW) infants—babies born weighing 3.3 pounds or less—in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), not consuming breast milk can have potentially devastating consequences.

Soon after President Amy Gutmann arrived at the University in 2004, she launched the Penn Compact, setting a forward-thinking academic and research agenda for the institution under her leadership.

The world today is very neatly divided into 24 efficient, well-ordered time zones that correspond with the 24 hours in a day. If it’s 2 p.m. in Philadelphia, it’s 11 a.m. in Los Angeles, 7 p.m. in London, 8 p.m. in Paris, 9 p.m. in Tel Aviv, and 4 a.m. tomorrow in Seoul. Time is uniform, but it wasn’t always so. Standardization didn’t begin to emerge until the late 19th century.

If given a choice, it’s a safe bet that most animals would prefer to be in a loving home than in a shelter.

The premier scientists at the University of Pennsylvania rely on next-generation sequencing techniques to elicit new information about the living world. Now, freshmen can do the same thing.

For those in need of holiday gifts for friends and family, there are plenty of places on campus to get into the swing of the season.

Free and enslaved Africans shaped and built Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean.

Nanotechnology research aims to unlock the secrets of matter on the atomic scale, where materials can behave much differently than they do in everyday life, becoming stronger despite weighing next to nothing.  The trick is enabling these small wonders to interact with macro-scale objects while maintaining those special traits.

Driverless cars aren’t just the stuff of science fiction anymore; some manufacturers say autonomous vehicles are less than five years away.