Campus & Community

Penn’s Sustainable Purchasing Initiative has added two new programs—Green Alternatives and Reusable Delivery Totes—to help the University reach its Climate Action Plan goals of carbon reduction and waste minimization.

Whether you’re a serious athlete or you play sports just for fun, there are many opportunities to participate in sports at Penn. The University’s Department of Recreation offers students, faculty and staff the chance to play in 38 sports clubs that focus on everything from aikido to water polo.

Winners of Penn’s 2011 Models of Excellence Awards will be honored at a ceremony and reception on Thursday, March 31, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

PHILADELPHIA -- Penn InTouch, the secure online gateway for University of Pennsylvania students to their profiles and academic, financial and contact information, is now available as a mobile application.

Message from the President:The Penn community is tremendously grateful that all students, faculty and staff who were in Japan during the earthquake and tsunami are reported to be safe, uninjured and making their way back to campus. Now, our attention must turn to how we can help the Japanese people recover from this tragic event.

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” said 19th century abolitionist Theodore Parker. Penn Law School’s Public Interest Week, March 14 to 18, will also bend toward justice with a workweek’s worth of events and lectures promoting justice through lawyering for the public interest.

Everyone wins when neighborhood reinvestment reinforces—rather than undermines—the diversity of a community. A new report from Penn’s Fels Institute of Government details how the redevelopment of vacant property in North Philadelphia is transforming the area.

WHAT: The Landmark Americana Tap & Grill, a West Philadelphia eatery that opened in May 2010 at 3333 Market St. WHEN: The restaurant is open Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. On Sunday, Landmark opens at 2 p.m.

While some students will be spending spring break basking in the sun on a beach in Florida, Penn’s Cricket Club will also be enjoying the warmer weather in the “Sunshine State” competing in a cricket tournament.