Campus & Community

Lucious Lyon, from the popular FOX TV show “Empire,” is often associated with gun violence, alcohol abuse, and unsafe sex. The music mogul’s conduct has something in common with many teenagers: Their risky behaviors tend to happen in clusters.

Graduation festivities kick off this week at Penn, with school ceremonies beginning as early as Thursday, May 12, and are capped off by the University’s 260th Commencement on Monday, May 16, at Franklin Field, which is

As the largest private employer in Philadelphia and the second largest in the state, Penn has a significant and diverse economic impact.

Boys ages 7 to 14 can join Penn Men’s Basketball Coach Steve Donahue and Penn players for two separate sessions of summer camp: June 27 through July 1 and Aug. 15 through 19.

This is the first of two features introducing the University of Pennsylvania’s 2016 President’s Innovation Prize winners. A rough estimate of the amount of steps taken in a day might be enough for the average fitness tracker or smartwatch user, but, for people with movement disorders like Parkinson’s disease, more fine-grained data could be life changing.

(In the second of a two part series on the University of Pennsylvania’s inaugural Penn Global Seminars, two professors share how they crossed schools and disciplines to co-teach a course with an embedded short study-abroad trip to Paris.)

(In the first of a two part series on the University of Pennsylvania’s inaugural Penn Global Seminars, undergraduates share what they learned traveling to Morocco and Zanzibar as part of the study-abroad component of one of the seminar courses.)

Through the power of music, some University of Pennsylvania students are bonding with, teaching and learning lessons from West Philadelphia elementary and high school students.

The University of Pennsylvania’s all-grant aid program provides financial accessibility to an Ivy League education for a broad and diverse student body attracted to the rigorous academic community. Helping students facing the unique challenge of living with a disability is another way Penn is helping break down barriers. 

On four Saturdays this spring, Sharon Thomas has made the hour-long drive from Hatboro to the University of Pennsylvania with a strong sense of urgency and hope.