Campus & Community

With a suite of programs in the STEM fields being offered for middle and high school students at Penn this summer, including many with scholarships and financial aid to defray costs, Philadelphia students have fewer excuses for experiencing a “summer slide.”

Growing up at 52nd Street and Haverford Avenue in West Philadelphia, Glen Casey did not believe he belonged at the nearby University of Pennsylvania.

The Brookings Institution and the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House announced today the establishment of a new joint visiting fellowship program bringing senior policy practitioners leaving United States government service into residence as visiting fellows at Brookings and Perry World House.

Vice Provost for Research Dawn Bonnell announced a membership program in partnership with Penn’s Schools to make the Pennovation Center and its programming available to the broader Penn community.

Penn (22-7, 13-1 Ivy) punched its ticket to the NCAA Tournament on Sunday, defeating the second-seeded Princeton Tigers (16-13, 9-5), 57-48, in the championship of the first-ever Ivy League Tournament. With the win, the Quakers secured their third bid to the NCAA Tournament in the last four years.

When political scientist Michael Jones-Correa of the University of Pennsylvania began looking at public opinion data published in the American National Election Study, he noticed one population missing: Latino immigrants.

This summer, Kelly Writers House will host its first intensive writing workshop for high school juniors and seniors.

Scientists have gotten better at predicting where earthquakes will occur, but they are still in the dark about when earthquakes will strike and how devastating they will be.

As winter wanes, visitors to Penn’s Morris Arboretum in Chestnut Hill can delight in seeing March’s blooming trees and plants ushered in by Mother Nature’s unseasonably high temperatures.

When Bob Ruth of Clemens Food Group set up two swine farms in Pennsylvania in the mid-1990s, one of the first things he did was call Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine.