Campus & Community

Next year, Penn will begin construction on the campus’ first-ever residential building specifically designed as a college house. The New College House at Hill Field will be located on Hill Field, a site bounded by 33rd, 34th, Walnut, and Chestnut streets.

The University City District (UCD), working in conjunction with Andropogon Associates landscape architects, SEPTA, the City of Philadelphia, and a committee of neighborhood stakeholders, is working to transform the 40th Street Trolley Portal. UCD has devised a plan to turn the concrete space into a vibrant, green, pedestrian-friendly plaza with a café.

In 1966, God spoke to Ben Carter. He came in the form of an angelic voice (some stories name the Angel Gabriel). At first, Carter did not want to believe the celestial calling. Terrified, and afraid he was going insane, he tried to ignore the voice, but it was persistent and absolute in its command: “Lead Yah’s flock out of modern-day Babylon, the United States of America.”

At the turn of the mid-century, Brooklyn-born Lila Gleitman was a professor’s wife with the benefit of enrolling in tuition-free courses at Penn. She had just wrapped up her undergraduate career at Antioch College, where she studied English literature—a domain Gleitman says she had considered to be “the pinnacle of human achievement.”

Four University of Pennsylvania graduate students have been named to the inaugural class of Emerging Leaders in Science and Society Fellows.  ELISS is sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

JOE COLLEGE: Joe Huennekens, a first-year graduate student in PennDesign, is assisting The Woodlands with its new master plan to reimagine the idea of the cemetery, and promote the landscape as a green space open to the community.

The University of Pennsylvania has been ranked No. 1 in safety and security in the higher education sector for the seventh consecutive year, according to Security Magazine’s “Security 500” list.

The Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania has developed a list of the top tips for donors, providing up-to-date information about smart philanthropic ways to help the people in the Philippines.

Burgeoning India is facing historic macroeconomic instability, and 2014 is shaping up to be a contentious election year there. Add a rapidly growing population and an overtaxed infrastructure, and it’s clear India is a case study in the urgent need for innovation.

At the University of Pennsylvania the United Minorities Council was created in 1978 as an organization to advocate on behalf of students who felt their voices weren’t being heard on campus.