Campus & Community

Drinks are on them: Alexander David, Shashwata Narain, and Siddharth Shah, students in the Wharton School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, have won the 2016 Y-Prize Competition with a plan to speed up the fermentation stage of beer brewing by three tim

The Brookings Institution tops the list of the 2015 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report, an annual ranking of the world’s top think tanks released today by the University of Pennsylvania Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at the Lauder Institute. This is the eighth consecutive year that Brookings has been ranked first.

President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price are pleased to announce the appointment of Aviv Nevo as the University of Pennsylvania’s 17th Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor

WHAT:           Release of the 2015 Global Go To Think Tanks Report and Index andPanel Discussion “Global Cities: The Philadelphia Story” 

The Associated Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired will recognize the University of Pennsylvania’s Gustavo D.

To commemorate its 60th anniversary, the Philadelphia Big 5—a college basketball collective comprised of Penn, La Salle, Saint Joseph’s, Villanova, and Temple—is for the first time inducting noteworthy teams into the Big 5 Hall of Fame, one from each member school.

Dear Benny,I recently noticed the Penn Museum hosts a weekly series of talks, “Unearthed in the Archives,” which features some objects from the Museum’s archival collection. What kinds of items are displayed? How do I sign up for these events?—History Buff

The first student government organization was started at Penn around the time of the 1896 opening of Houston Hall, the first student union on a United States university campus.

Get your heart pumping in the cold weather with Winter Wellness Walks at the Morris Arboretum.