Campus & Community

WHO:           Cynthia Figueroa, newly appointed commissioner, Philadelphia Department of Human Services

Two doctoral students from the University of Pennsylvania were selected by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as inaugural Health Policy Research Scholars. They are Jasmine L. Blanks Jones and Sondra Calhoun. 

At 10 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 27, just three days before the University of Pennsylvania kicked off another school year’s classes, 40 or so students gathered in the green next to Harrison College House for wings, ice cream and sodas. They weren’t simply hanging out but rather there to talk to and learn about more than half a dozen mental-health groups on campus.

Mary Reid Kelley, a senior critic in the Master of Fine Arts program in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania has been selected as a 2016 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann today welcomed donors, students, faculty, dignitaries and special guests for a ribbon cutting celebrating the completion of Perry World House, the University’s new hub for global engagement. 

  For the first three years of veterinary school, students spend the equivalent of a full-time job—or more—in the classroom and lab, absorbing the core scientific principles that will guide their practice of animal medicine.

Kui Wang, a visiting scholar in medicine at Penn, shops with her daughter Jeanie Yang, 5, at the St. Mary’s Church flea market on Locust Walk.

Dear Benny,I recently celebrated my one-year work anniversary at Penn. With it came a packet of information in the mail explaining the University’s “Basic Plan” contribution to my retirement.

 The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts’ partnerships with Penn’s Cinema and Media Studies Program and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) are creating synergies that offer unique program

 Karl Greenwood Miller was a progressive leader who played a significant role in shaping Penn’s College of Liberal Arts for Women. Founded in 1933, the College was led by Merle Odgers for its first thr