Campus & Community

In its 17th year, the Models of Excellence Program the University of Pennsylvania will honor 77 outstanding staff members who play key roles in Penn’s successes every day. President Amy Gutmann will present honorees from across 13 schools and centers with awards for their exemplary service on April 21, 2016 in Irvine Auditorium.

The 2016 U.S. presidential race has spurred spirited debate among candidates and the public over hot button election issues.

Men and women are subject to different vulnerabilities when it comes to health and disease. More men than women are diagnosed with autism, for example, while women tend to experience different heart attack symptoms from men.

A team of students traveled from the School of Engineering and Applied Science to Texas A&M University to pitch their designs for the Hyperloop, a science-fiction inflected transportation concept that is the brainchild of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, a Penn alumnus.

Emily Kramer-Golinkoff is a warrior. She manages her own nonprofit, frequently travels across the country—and sometimes world—for speaking engagements, and works with Penn Medicine’s Social Media and Health Innovation Lab. That’s on top of at least three hours of medical treatment every day.

With the 2016 United States presidential election race ramping up, experts from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice, or SP2, are analyzing 10 of the nation’s key social justice and policy issues ­­in a project called SP2 Penn Top 10 Social Justice & Policy Issues for the 2016 Presidential Election.

Year Up Philadelphia has honored the University of Pennsylvania with the 2015 Urban Empowerment Award in recognition of Penn’s leadership as a corporate partner providing professional mentoring and job training to urban young adults in underserved areas. 

In April, one enterprising senior or team of graduates-to-be at the University of Pennsylvania will be named the inaugural President’s Innovation Prize winners. The award comes with $100,000 in seed money and a $50,000 living stipend per team member. And that is just the start.

The world has room for two kinds of superheroes, says James O.

In 2001, the last supermarket in Chester, Pa., closed. By the time a new market opened in 2013, the city was classified by the U.S. Agriculture Department as a food desert, an area without easy access to fresh fruits, vegetables, and other healthy food.