Campus & Community

Three years ago, University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann launched the Penn Center for Innovation with the goal to provide infrastructure, leadership and resources to transfer promising Penn inventions, know-how and related assets into the marketplace for the public good.   

The eight Penn students chosen for the President’s Engagement and Innovation Prizes this year have demonstrated “immense grit, creativity, and leadership,” with projects to take on challenges that “couldn’t be more pressing,” said

On Saturday, May 6, 20 horses will have the chance to compete in the 143rd running of the Kentucky Derby. Like all athletes, these elite Thoroughbreds—under the care of their trainers and owners—must walk the line between rigorous training and injury. And one of the most feared conditions in horses is laminitis, a debilitating disease that affects the tissue connecting bone to hoof.

Kieran Dunne, a Penn grad student, remembers his first trip last year to White Sands National Monument, a desert in New Mexico, as part of Earth & Environmental Science (EES) professor

Penn’s Office of Government and Community Affairs (OGCA) is recruiting volunteers to help at six of the eight polling places on campus for the Pennsylvania primary election on Tuesday, May 16. To qualify, individuals must be registered to vote in Philadelphia and be available to work from 6:30 a.m.

Youth leaving foster care lack traditional family resources to help them apply for public benefits, school, or even a job.

Back for its 32nd year is the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts’ Children’s Festival.

Twenty University of Pennsylvania students and alumni have been offered Fulbright U.S.

Halfway through Anea Moore’s first semester as a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, she lost her mother to a heart attack, just months after losing her father to lung disease. Through that grief, she has found a way to heal by reaching out to help others.

Under the umbrella of the Theater Arts Council, TACe, students at the University of Pennsylvania, have the opportunity to bask in the limelight, both behind and in front of the curtain.