Campus & Community

Temples in China are not only houses of worship, but are also treasured works of art representing architectural traditions that go back thousands of years. A surprising number of these beautiful structures that look like Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian temples on the outside, are, however, actually mosques.

Every year in the United States, 133 billion pounds of food get discarded, amounting to more than 30 percent of the total food supply or an estimated 141 trillion calories lost.

By Christina Cook

Josep Dalmau, MD, PhD, an adjunct professor of neurology and founder and director of the Penn Center of Autoimmune Neurology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, was honored as a recipient of the American Academy of Neurology’s 2016 Cotzias Lecture and Award, at the organization’s 68th annual meeting that took place April 15-21 in Vancouver.

For a group of University of Pennsylvania students from André Dombrowski’s fall 2014 curatorial seminar, the excitement of curating an exhibition in the Penn Libraries and creating an accompanying catalog came rushing back when th

 This month, food trucks return to The Porch, the landscaped open space with outdoor seating and plantings adjacent to 30th Street Station.

 Penn’s Open Enrollment runs through Friday, April 29.

 Athletes from across the globe will descend on Franklin Field from April 28 through 30 for the running of the 2016 Penn Relays, the oldest and largest track and field competition in the United States. High school, college, and olympic hopefuls will compete in various track and field events, including hurdles, dashes, and the decathalon.

 FINE TUNING: Harrison Pharamond came to Penn not knowing of its extensive performing arts community. Having acted in musicals since third grade, he was pleased when he learned of Penn’s seven student-run theater groups. In his four years at Penn, he’s been part of 14 shows on campus, mostly musicals.

Class Day began in 1865 as a student-run celebration of seniors with festivities that started in the afternoon and stretched into the evening, including a formal dinner, award presentations, and entertainment.