Campus & Community

PHILADELPHIA – The Penn Libraries have received a major collection of 280 medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, valued at more than $20 million, from long-time benefactors and Library Board members Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg.

The Support Center for Child Advocates presented Penn President Amy Gutmann with the 2011 Judge Lois G.

This year Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day falls on Thursday, April 28, and Penn has prepared a full menu of fun and educational events to entertain and inspire youngsters on campus.

PHILADELPHIA – Gregory S. Rost, vice president and chief of staff to University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann, has been appointed to the five-member board of the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority, PICA, according to an announcement today by Pennsylvania House Democratic Leader Frank Dermody.

PHILADELPHIA – Marwan M. Kraidy and Kevin M.F.

It is one of the first school songs students at Penn commit to memory, and one they probably will remember for the rest of their lives.

WHAT: About a century ago, a group of writers, editors and literary critics decided to start meeting for lunch at what was to become the famous Algonquin Round Table in New York. Now-famous literary names such as Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and Alexander Woollcott shared their mutual creativity at the meetings and turned their ideas into great works.

This month scientists and science fans alike will take the latest research in fields from astronomy to zoology out of the labs and into the streets to celebrate the first annual Philadelphia Science Festival.

A decade ago, Philadelphia was a different city than it is today. Mayor John Street’s administration was just beginning the Neighborhood Transformation Initiative. Grand plans were still in the works for Penn’s Landing. Philadelphia was focused on development, rather than city planning.

“Penn’s strength is connected to the greatness of the community it shares,” says Glenn Bryan, the assistant vice president of community relations in the Office of Government and Community Affairs.