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For Fun and for Pride, Penn’s College House Intramural Athletes Vie for Trophy
Some were high school sports stars. Others barely know the rules of American football.
Penn's Africa Center Presents Roundtable on 'Mali: Islamic Militarism and Foreign Intervention'
WHO: Presenters: Gregory Mann, Columbia University
Online Courses Enable Penn Alumni to Continue Learning
As students at the University of Pennsylvania, they exercised their love of learning, and now, as Penn alumni, thanks to online courses, they can add to their knowledge base or explore subject matter they either couldn’t or didn’t when on campus.
For the Record: ROTC at Penn
The Students Army Training Corps was established at Penn in 1917 to educate and train students for World War I. About a year later, it evolved into the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC).
Q&A with Maureen Rush
As Penn’s top cop, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush oversees six departments—including the Penn Police, Fire & Emergency Services, and Special Service
New information chief
Effective Feb. 25, Thomas H. Murphy will become Penn’s new vice president for information technology and University chief information officer.
Penn offers tuition benefits to spouses, partners
Penn faculty and staff are presumably in-the-know about the University’s tuition assistance programs for qualified personnel and their dependent children, but fewer employees may be aware that spouses and domestic partners migh
Penn Vet’s Nicola Mason and Penn Medicine and Penn Nursing’s Yvonne Paterson Win One Health Award
PHILADELPHIA — Nicola Mason and Yvonne Paterson have been named this year’s recipients of the University of Pennsylvania
Best feet forward
Students who are part of Penn Nursing’s Healthy in Philadelphia initiative recently collected more than 800 new socks that were distributed to area nursing home residents and the Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission that serves the homeless and
In the News
Philadelphia Inquirer
What’s it like to come home from prison? Reentry simulations let people experience it firsthand
With support from the STAR program, Aslam Ashari was able to enroll in an entrepreneurship course at Penn after his release from prison.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
He started college in prison. Now, he is Rutgers-Camden’s first Truman scholar
Tej Patel, a third-year in the Wharton School and College of Arts and Sciences from Billeria, Massachusetts, was one of 60 college students nationwide chosen to be a Truman Scholar.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
A collector donated 75,000 comic books to Penn Libraries, valued at more than $500,000
Alumnus Gary Prebula and his wife, Dawn, have donated a $500,000 collection of more than 75,000 comic books and graphic novels to Penn Libraries, featuring remarks from Sean Quimly of the Kislak Center and Jean-Christophe Cloutier of the School of Arts & Sciences.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
How did a white woman come to write the newest definitive text on Philadelphia’s Black history?
Penn alum Amy Jane Cohen is profiled for her new book “Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape,” which examines Black history through the lens of events, institutions, and individuals across the city. The book includes a reflection from Penn chaplain Charles Howard.
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WHYY (Philadelphia)
Homeward bound: When a Penn Medicine nurse was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she turned to the service dogs she helped to train
A profile highlights Maria Wright of Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, from her volunteer work connecting people with service dogs to her cancer diagnosis and her own journey applying for a service dog.
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