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Campus & Community
A yearlong campaign to promote healthy choices
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.
How are families in low- and middle-income countries changing?
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.
These robot teams will be intelligent, adaptive, and resilient
The United States Army Research Laboratory awarded the School of Engineering and Applied Science a five-year, $27 million grant to develop new methods of creating autonomous, intelligent, and resilient teams of robots.
A Journey of Discovery in Kenya
Nearly 200 children sit shoulder-to-shoulder in neat rows on the floor of a refugee settlement classroom, their sunlit faces looking up and toward the front. It’s a familiar scene, a primary school in Kenya with too many students, too few resources, too uncertain a future.
Amid Devastation of Hurricane Maria, Penn Researchers with Puerto Rico Connections Focus on Helping Colleagues
As Hurricane Maria formed in the Atlantic, then turned into a powerful storm barreling toward Puerto Rico, Arjun Yodh watched the news closely.
Penn and KIST Researchers Offer Insights Into Lightweight Material That Expands With Heat
When it comes to taking up room without adding too much weight, the bubble can’t be beat. Because they are mostly air, they’re ultra-lightweight and can expand to fill any given space.
Center at the cutting-edge of materials science wins $22.6 million grant
Penn’s Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM) has been awarded a six-year, $22.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support the center’s work in cutting-edge materials science.
Poetry in symphonic motion
“I can’t stop thinking about corn.”The line had been in his head for years.Its meaning was a mystery for Herman Beavers, a professor of English and Africana Studies in the School of Arts & Sciences.
The coming spectacular colors of fall
Fall foliage is expected to be especially bright and colorful this year because plentiful summer rains, followed by September’s warm days and cool nights, have kept the leaves on the trees longer than drier seasons, says a Penn horticulturist.
In the News
Inside Higher Ed
Hopping on the affordability bandwagon
Penn is expanding full-tuition scholarships and removing home equity in its calculations for institutional aid, with remarks from Elaine Varas.
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Architectural Record
Clad in terra-cotta fins, UPenn’s expanded Graduate School of Education fits in with its neighbors
The Graduate School of Education has been renovated and expanded to feature additional classroom space, enhanced accessibility, and a distinct architectural identity.
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Bloomberg
Ivy League’s Penn shakes up aid formula by excluding home equity
To increase affordability, Penn will stop including a family’s equity in their primary home when determining a student’s financial aid eligibility.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Penn to expand its full-tuition scholarship aid to families with a higher income threshold
Penn’s Quaker Commitment will expand full-tuition scholarships and will no longer consider the primary family home as an asset in its calculation for institutional aid. Interim President J. Larry Jameson and director of financial aid Elaine Papas Varas offer remarks.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Penn student awarded Rhodes Scholarship to continue cancer research at Oxford University
College of Arts and Sciences fourth-year Om Gandhi from Barrington, Illinois, has been awarded a 2025 Rhodes Scholarship to continue his cancer research at Oxford University.
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