Lauren Hertzler ・October 19, 2017

Pork is the world’s most consumed meat, thanks in large part to the Chinese. China consumes half of the planet’s pork and, accordingly, is home to roughly 50 percent of the world’s pigs.

Katherine Unger Baillie ・October 19, 2017

TWO OF A KIND: Kelly Gao and Anmol Jain, seniors in the College of Arts & Sciences and the Wharton School, respectively, are core members of the Penn Wellness team. Gao is the group’s treasurer and Jain is its internal chair.

Lauren Hertzler ・October 19, 2017

Glen Casey will be the first to admit it: He wasn’t the perfect student in high school.“I was always doing the dumbest things; getting into fights, getting arrested,” he says.A student then at University City High, Casey failed ninth grade, and barely passed 10th.“I just really wasn’t into school,” he says.

Lauren Hertzler ・October 19, 2017

The University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House has been awarded a two-year $498,000 grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York for research and programming to impact critical emerging global policy issues. 

Amanda Mott ・October 16, 2017

Seven University of Pennsylvania faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the nation’s highest honors in biomedicine. They are among 70 new U.S. and 10 international members of the globally renowned organization.

Karen Kreeger, Michele W. Berger ・October 16, 2017

Since its founding in 1992 as the first academic research center in the United States focused on modern India, the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) has connected academics, policymakers, and business leaders from America and India while nurturing a new generation of young scholars of contemporary

Jacquie Posey October 13, 2017

For the sixth year, Penn’s Division of Human Resources (HR) is encouraging faculty and staff to get healthy, and stay healthy, with its “Be in the Know” wellness campaign, running now through August 2018.

Lauren Hertzler ・October 12, 2017

Much is known about family systems in high-income countries like Sweden and the United States, such as how decades of sweeping demographic, economic, and social change have radically transformed family structures, gender roles, and intergenerational bonds. But Hans-Peter Kohler, the Frederick J.

Michele W. Berger ・October 12, 2017

Walking around Penn’s verdant campus today, it’s easy to take the abundant tree canopy for granted. But at various points in history, the University was not as bucolic.

Katherine Unger Baillie ・October 12, 2017