Campus & Community

Facebook, with more than 750 million users, makes it easy to connect and share photos with family, friends and co-workers, but sharing too much information on the website can pose a threat to personal privacy.

The two-time defending Ivy League Champion Penn football team will have three nationally televised games this season, tied for the most in school history.

PHILADELPHIA — The Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania is partnering with the American Educational Research Association to host the Education Writers Association’s 2012 national seminar May 17-19 on the Penn campus.

  PHILADELPHIA – As part of their introduction to the University of Pennsylvania, incoming students will participate in the Penn Reading Project this fall with the book Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal.

PHILADELPHIA -- Ezekiel J. Emanuel, a globally renowned bioethicist, will join the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania as the 13th Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, beginning Sept. 1.  The announcement was made by Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price.

PHILADELPHIA -– The University of Pennsylvania Libraries has acquired the papers and memorabilia of songwriter and Penn alum Ray Evans and his wife, Wyn, thanks to a gift from The Ray & Wyn Ritchie Evans Foundation.

PHILADELPHIA – Katherine J.

Philadelphia has lost a most beloved and consummately gracious civic leader with the passing of Ruth Perelman. In our city's centuries-long history, Mrs. Perelman and her husband, Raymond, have made a mark unlike any other.

PHILADELPHIA -- University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann announced today that Stephen J. MacCarthy, vice president for external relations at the University of Arizona, will become the University of Pennsylvania’s vice president for university communications.  He will assume his new position on Aug. 29, 2011.