Campus & Community

Invasive species are typically a bane to land managers, who often devote considerable time and expense to controlling or removing them. But a new study of coastal dunes at New Jersey’s Island Beach State Park finds that one invasive plant, Asiatic sand sedge (Carex kobomugi), which grows on beach dunes, has at least one redeeming quality.

Michael Weisberg, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy in the School of Arts & Sciences, is aiming to take a deep analytical look at our current political landscape with the half-day conference “

Each spring for the last six years, the Philadelphia Science Festival has turned the city into one big classroom, with lively, entertaining, and hands-on lessons.

Can you imagine seeing the beauty of a frozen waterfall, let alone climbing one?

University of Pennsylvania sophomore Celeste Marcus is studying abroad in Israel this semester, but she’s still helping a local elementary school stay connected, from nearly 6,000 miles away.

The Christian Association (CA) at Penn offers a community of hospitality, service and advocacy, and faith exploration for students, faculty, and staff. Located at 118 S. 37th St., the CA House is beautiful and welcoming, and serves as a home away from home for many. The space is open to everyone, regardless of religious affiliation, orientation, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, race, or gender. The CA is celebrating its 125th anniversary this academic year.

Thousands of Penn faculty, staff, students, and alumni were involved in World War II, from serving in active duty, to participating in special training programs and research projects both on and off campus.

During the 1980s, Andrew Binns, now a professor in the School of Arts & Sciences’ Department of Biology and interim dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, helped lay the scientific groundwork that enable

Since the Pennovation Center’s opening, Comcast Corp. has vowed its support.

The soon-to-be completed FMC Tower is like no other high-rise in Philadelphia, Jeff Weinstein says, dubbing it the city’s first “vertical neighborhood.”“You can live in it and work in it, and so much more,” he says.