Campus & Community

While the days are still long and the lunch lines still short, there’s no better time for faculty and staff to take advantage of all the summertime activities Penn has to offer.

Getting up in front of several dozen women to discuss cervical cancer screening and prevention can be a nerve-wracking pursuit. But after presenting at a conference in West Virginia co-led by the School of Nursing, Penn Nursing alumna Jessegnia Velasquez and graduate student Tahara Prescott-Palmer know how to work a crowd.

Reducing Penn’s carbon footprint has been a part of the University’s commitment to sustainability since the launch of the Climate Action Plan in 2009. Campus buildings constitute some of the University’s largest producers of carbon, causing more than three-quarters of Penn’s emissions.

The Penn Libraries’ Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts renovation project started in 2010 is now complete with the opening of a new conservation laboratory. Located on the fifth floor of the

Growing up in Parsippany, N.J., Bianca Reo Charbonneau adored visiting the beach and imagined she would one day live there full-time. She remembers, however, her parents cautioning, “It’s better to know someone with a house down the shore than to have one yourself.”

When incoming freshman at the University of Pennsylvania are introduced to academic life through the Penn Reading Project this summer, the content of the material won’t be a book but a movie, “Citizen Kane.”

PHILADELPHIA - Mayor Jim Kenney has appointed Farzana Rashid Hossain, MD, an assistant professor of clinical medicine and a gastroenterologist at the Perelman School of Medicine at the Un

The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design has named three new senior fellows: William Hederman, former senior advisor to the U.S.

The University of Pennsylvania's New College House, designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Architects and constructed by INTECH Construction, has received the 2016 Urban Project of the Year awarded by the Architecture, Construction and Engineering Mentor Program of Eastern Pennsylvania. 

Caitlin Doolittle was looking to participate in a new experience this summer. She found it, and it involved decades-old lamp posts.