Campus & Community

PHILADELPHIA — 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, S

PHILADELPHIA — It’s not every day that a new academic discipline is born. But that’s exactly what happened in 2010, when the Project on Bioethics, Sexuality and Gender Identity — or “Queer Bioethics,” for short — came to life at the University of Pennsylvania.

Living in the Philadelphia area, Penn students, faculty, and staff have easy access to the region’s rich array of art and culture, including theater, dance, music, and magnificent art by some of the world’s masters. 

Women’s health issues and non-communicable diseases are the next challenges the highly successful Botswana-UPenn Partnership (BUP) aims to tackle, according to three colleagues from Botswana who visited campus last week.  

In a world full of 140-character Tweets and sound bite-driven politics, cutting down an hour-long lecture into minute-long remarks might sound like another worrying sign of the times. But if your objective is to get people to stumble upon a bit of knowledge that they might not have otherwise considered, adopting the style of a carnival barker can be a winning approach.  

WHAT:       A grand opening ceremony for Shoemaker Green, the University of Pennsylvania’s newest landscape project. It honors emeritus trustee Alvin Shoemaker.

PHILADELPHIA – Shoemaker Green, the newest landscape project on the University of Pennsylvania campus, was created in honor of emeritus trustee Alvin Shoemaker.

What a difference a year makes.

Ivy stones commemorate each Penn undergraduate class since 1873, the first year the University moved from its original Center City campus to West Philadelphia. On Ivy Day, celebrated a few days before Commencement, members of the senior class place a marble slab, adorned with a symbolic image (usually of ivy) and the class’ graduation year, someplace on campus.