Campus & Community

Angela Duckworth, the Christopher H.

Public discussion about food policy often lands on either end of a wide spectrum, with obesity, overeating, and unhealthy diets on one side, and hunger and food insecurity on the other.

Every year, Open Enrollment gives Penn employees a chance to make changes to their benefits elections. Open Enrollment for 2017-18 runs from Monday, April 17, through Friday, April 28. Updates made will take effect Saturday, July 1.

Music can be a powerful form of expression. It’s especially important for songbirds such as zebra finches, which learn the songs of their fathers in order to court mates.

In the entrance to Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery is a work of art made with more than 350 shoes in concentric rings of color, creating the impression of a giant chrysanthemum, the center made of bright yellow pumps with black soles.

It’s spring in Philadelphia, which means it’s time to celebrate science. The Philadelphia Science Festival is back next week for nine days of STEM-filled fun. All told, members of the Penn community will be presenting some 45 talks and activities in 14 venues across the city.

A Google search back in 2013 started things off. Typing in “Philadelphia,” “homeless” and “church,” Ian McCurry, then a freshman in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing, found a way to reach out to a vulnerable community that he could assist and support using his growing knowledge of health care.

It started with lunch. On a spring day in 1988, a small group of women of color on faculty and staff at the University of Pennsylvania met for lunch at the Penn Tower Hotel. They were hosted by Marcia Rafig, the hotel’s general manager, one of the few women of color in high level hotel management positions in the country.

As an immigrant, University of Pennsylvania junior Pamela Fuentes was assisted in her journey to become the first in her family to attend college. Now, she is helping others to access higher education.

This spring, several art and design installations will extend from Bartram's Garden Community Boathouse. Moored to the banks, and addressing the shoreline, they aim to influence the surrounding area.