Campus & Community

The majority of India’s labor force is dependent on agriculture for a living, so crop-damaging disease, floods, droughts, and pests imperil tens of millions of people. Vaishak Kumar, a political science major who graduated from Penn in May, grew up in an Indian farming community in the state of Karnataka.

Robert Frost enthusiasts are familiar with the poet’s written work, and perhaps some recordings of his performances, but now they can hear previously unreleased recordings on PennSound, the free, web-based archive offered by the University of Pennsylvania's Cen

Spending the summer taking classes and working in the University of Pennsylvania admissions office and as a research assistant is giving rising sophomore Andrea Ning an opportunity to stretch her mind and expand her interests.

“Philadelphia is a good city in which to write American history,” Franklin D. Roosevelt said as he accepted the Democratic Party’s presidential re-nomination at Franklin Field 80 years ago.

Now until July 29, the University of Pennsylvania Office of Development and Alumni Relations is hosting two interns for the CASE Advancement Internship Program.

By Patrick Ammerman You can’t study what you can’t see.

Summer is often equated with relaxation and a slower pace. But for animal shelters, the long days of summer can be the most stressful of the year.

When Silvia Pierini Dunn was 25 years old, she moved from her native Rome to the United States. Italian was her first language, and although proficient in English, she was certainly met with a language barrier.

Cristina Bicchieri’s work is not for the faint of heart.

[vimeo]175598576[/vimeo]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.”