Campus & Community

The University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Technology Transfer  (CTT), through its business incubator UPstart program, has launched a new mobile application design contest called the AppItUP Challenge.

President Obama spoke movingly about poverty and income inequality in his Aug. 28 speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.

As temperatures drop and members of the Penn community begin to reach for their tissues, the University is offering on-campus flu shots at a reduced cost to help faculty and staff ward off influenza.

When a beloved pet receives a diagnosis of cancer, owners may have many questions about what to do and where to turn.

On average, Americans spend approximately 90 percent of their time indoors, according to research from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Over the past two weeks, hundreds of top coders camped out on Penn’s campus as the School of Engineering and Applied Science hosted its inaugural HACKfest, a series of app-coding and ha

The University of Pennsylvania’s Division of Public Safety will conduct a UPenn Alert Emergency Notification Test with a campus-wide shelter-in-place awareness drill Friday, Sept. 27, at 12:15 p.m. 

Since Jan. 2000, 162 fire-related fatalities occurred on campuses across the country.

John L. Jackson, Richard Perry University Professor of Communication, Africana Studies  and Anthropology kicks off this semester's Lightbulb Cafés on September 24 with “Practicing Impolite Conversations: Talking About Race, Religion, Politics, and Everything Else.”

By the time Janeé Franklin graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in May, she had already built an impressive resume. The 21-year-old Virginia Beach, Va., native credits Penn’s financial aid program with helping her to work her way through college in meaningful jobs directly related to her career interests.