Campus & Community

With the hopes that their children would receive a better education, the parents of University of Pennsylvania student Alisha Chowdhury left Bangladesh the year before she was born and settled in New Orleans. 

Through the generosity of alumni and others in the entertainment industry, seven University of Pennsylvania students in the Cinema and Media Studies program have the opportunity this summer to intern at film, television and digital media companies. 

Even before coming to the University of Pennsylvania, Hannah Fagin knew she wanted to study the humanities, but she knew she had found her major after her first history course at Penn, “History of the American South.” 

Politicians’ race-conscious speeches have broad, and sometimes unexpected, consequences, according to a new book from Daniel Gillion of the University of Pennsylvania. 

Ever wonder what goes into designing and organizing an art exhibition? Through a new educational talk series, the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania (ICA) is sharing its behind-the-scenes knowledge with curious visitors.

Just like people, dogs that are critically ill or hospitalized are at a heightened risk of blood clots. Yet veterinarians have few reliable tools to diagnose animals that are prone to developing a potentially life-threatening clot.

On May 18, Mayor Jim Kenney inaugurated a North Philadelphia playground that only months earlier had been a crumbling parking lot rife with weeds and litter. Through efforts spearheaded by several members of the Penn art and design community, the lot was transformed into a lush, colorful schoolyard.

[youtube]VfxydqTjJC0[/youtube]Ask someone to draw a picture of a cutting-edge robotic arm and he or she will likely take inspiration from the one hanging from his or her shoulder: the same muscles, elbow, wrist, and fingers, with wires and servos replacing sinew and bone.

For more than three decades, scientists have worked to understand the link between eye gaze and cognition in babies. They have found that children begin following where people—typically moms—look during their first year of life, and the development of this function can signify how other skills, such as language and empathy, will progress.

Two students from the University of Pennsylvania, Daniel Blackey and William Dossett, have been awarded Critical Language Scholarships. They are among approximately 560 U.S. undergraduate and graduate student CLS scholarship recipients this year.